No one in the real world believes a word of these figures. That does not necessarily mean that they are false. But it does mean that no one believes a world believes a word of them.
If you doubt that, then look out for the next polls of voting intention (not "Which Leader looks better while eating a bacon sandwich?", but "For which party are you going to vote at the next General Election?"), and for any actual votes cast in the next year.
Holding a seat does not count on the part of the Conservatives, because they do not have an overall majority. They need to win seats. They are not going to do so.
All positive economic news was universally dismissed and derided as transparent fiction and fraud in the years leading up to the 1997 Election.
Even though a lot of it was true, the voters were having none of it.
Ask anyone old enough, and they will tell you even now that there was a recession on the day of that Election. There had not been one for years by then. But everyone still remembers there having been one. They always will.
As they will always remember there having been a recession on the day of the 2015 Election.
If, in fact, there is not one. Whenever you hear of "the recovery," remember to ask, "the recovery from what?" There was no recession on the day of the last General Election.
Cameron and Osborne have repeatedly taken us back into recession, and they would be more than capable of doing so again.
Even if they did not, then everyone, or at any rate more than enough people to elect the other side, would think that they had done so, or, far more probably, that there had never not been a recession during the present Parliament.
They will vote accordingly.
Labour may well be in the lead but the polls are also showing that people view the Tories as the best party to handle the economy.
ReplyDeleteSource: http://hopisen.com/2014/when-a-good-strategy-doesnt-seem-to-be-working/
The only question is how people are going to vote.
ReplyDeleteYou are too young to remember the Major years. But that hardly matters, since, like those of us who are, you are getting to live through them all over again.
David Lindsay-who should obviously stay away from this subject (now who skipped their economics classes? I blame his parents)writes thus;
ReplyDelete""Whenever you hear of "the recovery," remember to ask, "the recovery from what?" There was no recession on the day of the last General Election""
Erm-recovery from 2008.
GDP is now higher than it was in in 2008-for the first time since.
Like most socialists, you should stay away from economics.
It's not you thing.
The English language is clearly not yours. A true child of Thatcher there.
ReplyDeleteThere was no recession on the day of the last General Election, nearly two years after the Crash.
Any need to recover since then has been caused by the Coalition. Repeatedly, in fact.
And no one in the electorate at large believes that there is a recovery at all. They all think that there is still a recession, and that there has been one continuously under Cameron and Osborne.
They will think that until there is a Labour Government, and they will remember it like that forever thereafter.
That happened in 1992-1997. It is happening again now.