Tuesday 28 January 2014

There Is No Recovery

If it does not correspond to anyone's experience, then, when you think about it, it cannot possibly be happening.

In any case, recovery from what? There was no recession on the day of the last General Election. There was one again very soon after it.

It was not a joke that thousands, even millions, of Romanians and Bulgarians were supposed to turn up in Britain on New Year's Day. The BBC, ITN and Sky News sent film crews to meet them. MPs turned up at the airports to do so.

Nearly a month later, where are they? Especially since Romania has the highest growth in the EU, they have decided that they can do without the rickets, the tuberculosis, the Red Cross parcels, the foodbanks, and the prosecution of people who have to eat out of the skips at the backs of supermarkets.

The Romanians and Bulgarians would be here if we had a recovery. Demonstrably, we do not. Nor does anyone believe that we do. Nor, therefore, will anyone vote as if we did.

So the Lib Dems are finished. The Conservatives are finished. And UKIP, today announcing that it alone "dares cut spending on the NHS and on pensions", is not finished, because it has never begun.

3 comments:

  1. If there is no recovery then how do you account for the increase in GDP and fall in unemployment? I know you're not keen on the Coalition but it seems a bit far fetched to deny that an economic recovery is happening. Whether it's down to the Coalition or not is another matter.

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  2. As today's figures show the economy expanded by 2% in the last year alone, Ed "Broken Crystal Balls" looks like those occultist fortune-tellers who predicted the world would end in 2012-or the Met Office's hilarious forecast of a "summer-long heatwave".

    Poor old Ed.

    He's a failure.

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  3. No one believes a word of that.

    Which, when you think about it, can only mean that it is not happening.

    No one believed in the "green shoots" the last time that David Cameron had the run of these things, either.

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