THE WORST IN 60 YEARS?
Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 10:24AM What do you make of Alistair Darling's astonishingly bleak assessment of the economic crisis facing Britain? The Chancellor warned that it will be 'more profound and long lasting' than anyone expected. And in an admission of Labour's failure to manage the downturn, he conceded that voters had been left 'p***** off'.
The Chancellor said the country was on the brink of 'arguably the worst' financial conditions for 60 years. His grave diagnosis comes in the same week as a warning from a Bank of England policymaker that two million people could be unemployed by Christmas. It will cause significant damage to Gordon Brown's hopes of staging a political fightback with a series of measures designed to help families meet soaring mortgage, food and fuel costs. The remarks are also likely to add to the unease within the Cabinet that the Prime Minister has been doomed by the downturn and will find it impossible to regain support in the country.
I think that voters have every RIGHT to be fed up with this shower of socialist incompetents. And yes, they are DOOMED to lose the next election since the economy will nosedive even further as we approach the lead up to the next general election. The way I read it, there is nowhere for Labour to go but into opposition. However, I believe that they will cause much more damage to the economy before they are booted out, hoping that the Conservatives will then struggle to fix that which Labour has ruined. In turn, Labour will seize on this to try and then engineer their return to power in 2014. I am unsure if Darling is right that the economy is entering the worst conditions for 60 years but I believe this current government IS the worst in 60 years or indeed longer. The sooner it goes the better.
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Reader Comments (4)
I think Darling is trying to make it sound terrible so he can claim credit when it is merely bad.
David, this isn't incompetence because nobody is that incompetent. The ruination of our society and economy is deliberate policy. Nulab intended to ensure perpetual re-election by having a client electorate of immigrants, public sector placemen and welfare recipients to out-number the rest of us. Unfortunately for them, the economy has collapsed before they could achieve their aim. Nonetheless, the country is still on Nulab's chosen path and the immediate alternative - Cameron's cons - are unlikely to take the necessary remedial actions.
Meanwhile, Brown will conduct the economic equivalent of a scorched-earth policy so that Cameron will inherit a train crash.
Allan,
Yea, I agree that Labour destroys. By intent. They are the enemies of our Nation. Call Me Dave seems a little better but I also agree that whilst the names may change the policies - the substance - remains the same.
Osborne faces a tough job if they do take over.