That’s what the graph on the BBC article looks like.

The economic data coming out of Japan is shocking (read here and here).

At first, it seemed like the UK was aiming to collapse big time, following on from fellow island country Iceland. Well, seems yet more fellow islanders, Japan, are not having any of that and are surging ahead of us in the deep-shit race.

Japan’s exports plunged 45.7% in January compared with a year ago to hit the lowest figure in 10 years, official figures have shown.

That’s just ONE month! :O