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The second quarters recovery took everyone by surprise, being far better than expected. After a dismal first quarter, the second quarter left the experts and TV pundits scratching their heads as to what exactly had gone right. Yes right! Growth in the region of 0.6% was expected by economists, but this almost doubled to 1.1% , hence the massive surprise.
Since the Coalition took over with its shakily elastoplastic government, we have been swamped nightly by every single one of them at ministerial level, telling us how ghastly and awful the last government were. Bog standard spin of course, but used to soften us up for what was/is to come. Big Cuts. The Coalition proposed cuts are unprecedented in scale, hidden under something called The Big Society, and their prophecies of doom and gloom have reached biblical proportions, and attached to every single one of these prophecies comes the drearily standard PR spin that it was all the "last governments fault".
But gobsmackingly.. and surely with an element of pure gold embarrassment for George Osborne...here we have good figures, fab figures even, and all the product of the last government, who were in control for almost all of the quarter and who's foundations will have led to this recovery. There cant be any other explanation.
Alastair Darling himself said the figures made a "mockery" of the current spinning, which talks down the economy at every turn, so that these severe Coalition cuts can be implemented.
Labour themselves knew that the recovery would take care of much of the deficit in time and although Labour recognised cuts would be needed, the cuts were not to be as stringent as currently proposed, and most importantly now as it turns out, not to come immediately, not to come right now as the economy begins to recover. This was the main difference between the two parties at the election...the timing of the cuts.
Now the economic experts are telling us on TV that one of the pitfalls now to this good news continuing into the third quarter, are the George Osborne cuts. Gulp!
As my old mother used to say...put that in your pipe and smoke it!