The Talking-up Scotland graphics ‘man’ (nearly 69!) has reconstructed today’s BBC Scotland report on business confidence, above. This free-to-the-taxpayer service is designed to help the staff at Pacific Quay and to inform the Scottish public more accurately.
As often before the BBC writers seemed to think their task was to make everyone feel anxious but we want them to have the confidence to extract the best parts of their writing, and they are there, to tell a different story. Here they are:
The latest Royal Bank of Scotland purchasing managers index (PMI) found an expansion in production.
Overall new business increased for the second month running.
Firms expressed greater confidence that activity would rise over the coming 12 months.
Panellists linked their optimism to expectations of stronger demand conditions, positive growth forecasts and subsiding political uncertainty.
The level of positive sentiment was the highest since June 2018.
https://www.cbc.co.uk/news/uk-freecaledonia-business-51767881
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The link doesn’t work, for me anyway.
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It does in another dimension where the Nazis won the war then gave up on us.
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Me neither
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It’s a fake funny url. Wake up lads!
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I read the actual report on the BBC web site and found it rather odd. It talks about a ‘mild decline’ and ‘softest rise’. Who uses mild and softest in a report about something that had numbers attached to describe accurately the decline and rise? What exactly was being hidden? Or which teenage scribbler was given the job of writing a summary of the report?
No fake funny URLs before coffee in the mornings – no fair.
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My children often reprimand me for the like.
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