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Scottish Government’s own economist last week warned GDP would ‘grow by less than 1 per cent every year until 2022 – the slowest sustained period of growth for nearly six decades’. So why did Nationalist backbencher John Mason launch a motion condemning the ‘UK economic failure’ in producing forecast growth next year of... er, 1.2 per cent? Given his Homer Simpson-esque grasp of basic maths, perhaps it is unsurprising the number of fellow Nat MSPs who backed the motion could be counted on one finger.