The UK government is happy to tell us that the German economy is in recession. This week I visited #aachen in Germany to see how things really are . I found the city to be quite prosperous and operating normally. Following #brexit the UK economy is struggling with far worse to come. #germany has also had problems especially following Putin's invasion of Ukraine but the economy is based upon manufacturing high quality engineering products and seems likely to rebound once the worldwide economy begins to pick up. I spoke with many people in Aachen who all appeared relatively optimistic for the German economy and seemed somewhat bemused at Brexit.