From a British Heart Foundation report:

"The financial cost of mental ill health to British
business is an estimated £26bn per year"

in addition

"Sickness absence costs UK businesses an estimated £29bn each year"

and

"The report calculates that the overall cost to employers of replacing staff in the UK is £4.1bn a year."

That's lots of money.

Do you mean that Corbyns saying the tories are running the country down is deliberate govt.policy?

I reckon Labour's fully costed Manifesto will be.

Buying property isn't inward investment! It's just turning a UK income producing asset into cash, which has no income return. The income producing asset then sends all its income abroad.

The cash is then used to pay down debt by and large to reduce leverage on wider portfolios to reduce risk due to heightened economic risks brought about by Brexit.

Quote from today's Property Weekly: Chinese property giant Country Garden has set its sights on building tens of thousands of homes in London as it looks to take advantage of the “golden opportunity” political uncertainty provides for overseas capital, Property Week can reveal. Second top story is South Korea buying a Sainsbury's distributions centre in the Midlands for £100m. 4th story is Saudis buying an office in Maidenhead for £35m.

So rather than build homes ourself we buy them from China. We need the homes that's true enough, but Brexit has directly impacted our own ability to deliver them and instead we have to pay profits to the Chinese to do it!

On IMF forecasts: “The 0.9 percentage point upward revision to the 2017 forecast and the 0.2 percentage point downward revision to the 2018 forecast reflect the stronger-than-expected performance of the UK economy since the June Brexit vote, which points to a more gradual materialisation than previously anticipated of the negative effects of the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union,” the IMF said. “Though highly uncertain, medium-term growth prospects have also diminished in the aftermath of the Brexit vote because of the expected increase in barriers to trade and migration, as well as a potential downsizing of the financial services sector amid possible barriers to cross-border financial activity.”

I've already pointed out how misleading annual GDP growth and unemployment figures are.

So that would be a "no" then. All doom and gloom in your little echo chamber.

Can't wait to see you proven wrong. Brexit is, and will be, the best thing that has happened to this country in decades. But do carry on howling at the moon.

How much has wealth inequality grown in this country since 2010?