Red Rag - Lets look at the biggest issues for the forthcoming year.
The economy looks like it has contracted for the last quarter. If it contracts again in the first quarter where the vast majority of economists think we will. Then we are officially back into recession. I heard a Tory privately saying that he had been praying for snow for two reasons, the first being that if the last quarter was a contraction they could blame the snow and they would use their friends in the press, like they have so successfully in the last 18 months, to ram home any old bullshit excuse for the economy tanking. Secondly if it was particularly bad then it would make it easier for the economy to grow slightly in the first quarter next year, which would technically fend off a recession. The snow has not come, so the Tories around Osborne have spent the last month working out what they can blame for a contraction in the last quarter, most of them seeing it as a given now.
The amount of times you can blame Europe is now beginning to run thin. Yes the economy is effected by the Euro crisis, but as one person said on the radio the other day, if it is the main reason, as the Torys are saying the economy is faltering why are we at the same time deciding to try and move away from it. It then leads to the accusation of the reason Europe is effecting the economy so much is because the Tory coalition has turned it's back on it.
So economy wise we head into 2012 with unemployment soaring to levels not seen since...well ...err...the last time we had a Tory government with Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development predicting it could peak close to three million. The governments borrowing targets being missed month on month. Inflation not falling as fast as The Office of Bullshit and Ridicule keep telling us, therefore those lucky to actually be in work is seeing their disposable income fall week on week. Sales are falling, customer confidence is falling, business confidence is falling, construction is falling, the number of vacancies for people to apply for falling to the lowest level since the recession of the 90's with on average 23 people going for very job, the Balance of Payments have hit historic highs, the country's AAA status is set to disappear in the next few months, more cuts, more austerity and more ill educated and economically inept refusal to move away from Plan A by the worst chancellor in history.
With all this negative economic news and strife, what has been the most important issue on Tory lips over the holiday period......the ability to rip a live animal to bits after chasing it until it can run no longer so they can watch in awe as it's entrails are ripped from the stomach or it's it's spine chewed from it's body by a pack of blood thirsty hounds.
So in the next few months if you, your family or friends lose their jobs, if you cannot have your operation done due to lack of beds or the growing waiting list. If your council is forced to close your library or take away your grandparents meals on wheels or your children's school finds it doesn't have enough funding to educate them to their best ability in fact if anything happens to you thanks to austerity and the economically inept bellend making a complete balls up driving it thanks in part to the spineless twats in the Lib Dems.
Always remember.... to the coalition, the millionaires ability to chase down a wild animal to see it's body ripped to shreds is way, way more important than any of the the trivialities above.
Now get out there and getting working for nothing in Camerons Big Society.
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