Because those are the only sectors actually growing in the UK.

You’d think they’d have been measuring these things already, considering the Brits were the world’s first narcostate

I’m fairly sure they’ll be double counting if they do that. All that money is already counted when it’s laundered. They’ve realised they’re missing the outgoing column on the crime side. They’ll just be bringing the crime sector up to speed with the rest of the economy, where everything on the incoming and outgoing columns are added together as if they’re separate.

This is good news for petty criminals. Once the state starts seeing your crime as part of GDP, you can defend yourself in court as merely a ‘white collar’ criminal and escape the hefty prison sentences. British politicians worried about being prosecuted for participating in these crimes when they get voted out this year – fear no more!

They gotta pad those falling GDP numbers.

If anti-productive things like interest and rent are counted as GDP then so should illegal activity.