BCC raise UK growth forecast to 1.4%

The British Chambers of Commerce have raised their growth forecast for the UK economy from 1.1% to 1.4%.

The BCC, along with other industry analysts who were part of Project Fear, were forced to upgrade forecasts several times following the EU referendum when the economy failed to fall off a cliff edge, when unemployment dropped and when the mass exodus of employers they promised instead turned into billions of pounds of inward investment.

BCC suspended Director-General for supporting Brexit but not two chief execs who supported remain

Guido has revealed that two heads of British Chambers of Commerce have publicly backed remaining in the EU in the last few weeks without losing their jobs.

The BCC claimed, following the suspension of their now former Director-General for personally endorsing leaving the EU, that making such comments undermine the BCC's official stance of neutrality on the EU referendum. But the Chief Executives of both the Kent and Cornwall Chambers of Commerce have publicly supported the remain campaign with impunity.

Sounds like an open and closed case of constructive dismissal ...

Longworth resigns from BCC following suspension for supporting Brexit

The Director-General of the British Chambers of Commerce, John Longworth, has resigned after being suspended for saying that we would be better off leaving the EU.

The comments - which were made in a personal capacity - sparked complaints from some of its more influential members, resulting in him being hung out to dry.

The BCC's executive and non-executive board is a who's who of former quangocrats and public sector wonks who've forged careers in unaccountable quangos managing EU regional funding and pushing the EU regionalisation agenda.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, Longworth said that the British government is issuing exaggerated warnings which will become a "self-fulfilling prophecy". Cameron can't predict doom and disaster if we leave the EU and then backpedal when we vote to leave and expect the investors and businesses he's put so much effort into scaring off to suddenly have faith in our future outside the EU.