IMF Predicts Britain to have Slowest Economic Recovery
28th Jan 2009 19:19:10
I would have started this article by writing something along the lines of "The Government's pathetic fiction about the state of the economy has been dealt a blow by the IMF today", but decided against such a beginning. Why? Because we all knew it anyway.
Under Brown, we have unprecedented levels of personal and national debt, we have unemployment way higher than official figures due to "hiding" the unemployed in the disability statistics, and our massive civil service. We have more state control over our lives, both social and work, and Government agencies collect data about every single aspect of our private lives, then leave all the information on the 1046 to Edinburgh, seemingly as a matter of course.
It's infuriating to watch the Prime Minister on Question Time (12 noon every Wednesday), as he worms his way out of questions asked by both the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives. Usually, the prime minister answers with a variation on "Who cares? You don't have very many MP's", or "Who Cares? There was a recession in '91/'92 under the Tories" depending on which party is asking the question.
I'm not exactly a huge fan of the Tories, which probably won't suprise the casual reader, but once 15 years pass, bringing up the previous recession becomes invalid as an arguing strategy. In fact, the front page of the Labour official website links to this pathetically childish webpage, which insults the intelligence of even the most mindless idiot. The links at the top all go to the same page, except "Webcabinet NEW" which is a video of a fake MSN conversation between the shadow cabinet. The conversation, for those people who don't have time to waste watching it, has the shadow cabinet talking, saying they'll do nothing, and just blame Gordon Brown for the crisis.
It might seem strange that I've got to this point in the post and basically defended the Tories. I don't think their policies are what's right for the country, and I don't like that they've managed to get away with their suggestion a few years ago for more bank deregulation, but the Government's policy is a combination between "waste money on a VAT cut that won't encourage spending", and "nationalise everything". This leads me on to an article from the Independent , claiming that voters are finally seeing through the "money down the toilet" vat cut.
Honestly, I don't know if I had much of a point here, except expressing disappointment. our Government seems obsessed with childish name calling, directed towards both opposition parties, and accuses the opposition of blaming Gordon Brown (chancellor for ten years, don't forget) for the country's economic crisis, which according to independent financial analysts (and everybody not working for the Labour Party), is going to be horrific.
And 30% of people would vote Labour, according to the polls. I can't think of a single reason to do so.
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