Thursday, 5 September 2013

"Economic Recovery"

No one believes it.

No one is ever going to believe it.

Meaning that it may as well not be true.

The Labour lead may be down a bit this week. But it is still a lead.
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8 comments:

  1. Anonymous5 September 2013 at 00:30

    The OECD believes it. So does the IMF.

    If you read the surveys out today, British business now increasingly believes it.

    The OECD has rightly doubled for the next year.

    It really is time for the spendaholic people who ruined our economy-and created this enormous debt-to give up the game.

    They've lost. In every way.

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  2. David Lindsay5 September 2013 at 00:35

    But the voters don't. And they never will. So it may as well not be true.

    If you mean the Labour Party, having been consistently ahead in the polls for years - years - does not look like "having lost". Nor like being about to lose, either.

    Blaming the crisis on public spending means defending the withdrawal of whichever local service has been cut, or is going to be cut. Good luck with that on the doorstep.

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  3. Anonymous5 September 2013 at 00:38

    And Labour never had a real lead. Even against the Coalition (whose own voters and members can't stand them).

    They only ever "led" a bit by default-because they were there, and because there's no other Opposition in Parliament.

    As this week's polls show, about 2%of British people see Miliband as a leader.

    Labour know that absolutely nobody likes them.

    As Alan Johnson remarked, trade union members are the "ghosts in the Labour machine".

    Barely 10% of them, if that, would sign up if they were actually given the choice to opt in.



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  4. David Lindsay5 September 2013 at 00:42

    Oh, who cares about silly questions like that?

    You just sound hysterical now. Of course it is a "real lead". And yes, it is because there is no other Opposition. Your point being?

    Labour seems to do remarkably well whenever real votes are cast if "nobody likes them".

    And that is before your lot takes to the streets and the airwaves in order to tell people that "the recovery" is the reason why they cannot have back their buses, or their libraries, or whatever. "Some recovery!" will be one of the more polite responses to that.

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  5. Anonymous5 September 2013 at 16:00

    The business community employs most of those voters-and, as the present Markit survey shows, this is the greatest period of economic activity in 15 years.

    That means Ed Balls and Labour are officially lying when they say otherwise. They are simply frauds.

    Those libraries weren't closed by the Government-they were closed by fat-cat Council Chief Execs who'd rather cut frontline services than their salaries or the many people they employ in non- jobs with titles like 'Community Relatuons Adviser' and 'Climate Change Officer'.

    Getting rid of the dreadful multicultural anti-Christian Equality and Human Rights Commission alone would save a whole lot of libearies, I can tell you.

    And that's before you even start on the various other pointless 'Commissions' for this, that and the other, which we seemed to manage perfectly well without, for most of the last century.

    The recovery is very real-just look at the latest Markit research.

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  6. Anonymous5 September 2013 at 16:05

    Further to my last comment.

    My point was that Labour only gets any votes because there's no better Opposition in Parliament. Just like the Tories in 2010. Or the Lib Dems when they were the 'protest vote'.

    Nobody votes for them because they actually love its policies.

    If there was a real Parliamentary Opposition (anti-EU, pro grammar schools, anti-crime and anti- immigration) it would wipe the Coalition (and Labour ) into the sea.

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  7. David Lindsay6 September 2013 at 21:53

    this is the greatest period of economic activity in 15 years

    No one in the general electorate believes that for one second. It doesn't matter if it's true. No one believes it. No one can see or feel it. Quite the reverse, in fact.

    Those libraries weren't closed by the Government

    Good luck with that on the stump.

    As for your second comment, you obviously mean UKIP (I'm not sure why), and its support has afllen by a third or more since the May local elections, where it did not do all that well, anyway.

    48 per cent, practically half, of its voters are over 60, and MPs who take all the views that you list, regularly voting against the Government on them and on Syria, nevertheless refuse to have anything to do with UKIP.

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  8. Anonymous7 September 2013 at 16:00

    "Obviously you mean UKIP".

    Obviously not.

    If you had paid any attention, Peter Hitchens has been tirelessly trying to explain that under our first-past-the- post two party system, there is no room for a new Parliamentary party until one of the Big Two collapses to make way for one.

    So half the electorate simply don't vote for either of them.

    While a dwindling number of tribalists vote Tory or Labour (despite endless betrayal) just because there's no other Parliamentary party.

    If there was something better in Parliament, they (and many of the 40 per cent who've stopped voting) would vote for it.

    UKIPs purpose is to speed up that process of ending the old two-party stranglehold by depleting their votes even more.


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