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> At a national productivity level 30% below France and Germany

Where you got that number? UK has higher GDP per capita than France and it's lower than Germany but not by 30%. Also the UK is just coming out of a messy divorce. I'll give it 5-10 years to figure stuff out.

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>Where you got that number? UK has higher GDP per capita than France and it's lower than Germany but not by 30%.

because you're not looking at output per hour worked. The Brits work about ~1670 hours per year. The French about ~1470, and the Germans ~1360. If you look at the output per hour, The UK comes in below Euro average, roughly on a level with Italy and Spain.

https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=LEVEL

the UK hasn't even started the messy divorce yet...

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