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Fact 1: I've always been a Tory voter and supporter.
Fact 2: I don't care one bit if the Tories, Labour, LibDems, or Gay Dwarf Differently-Abled Martian Party of Cydonia are in power at the moment as long as they sort out the economy.
Hmm. The economy. I am starting to wonder if Labour's spending plans actually made some sense after all? Since the election and the cuts that are forever being announced, I have never known business to be as dead as it currently is. During this recession, business has been incredibly difficult and stressful to the point where it has made me wonder why I bother getting out of bed every morning, but at this very moment, it feels as though the economy is literally frozen solid and incapable of even the slightest turnover. Today I had to break the news to my staff that I may have to start cutting jobs, and I'm sure many of you know how well that goes down, and no matter what we do, there just isn't any work out there. Well, for certain nobody is spending anything. Not a measly dime.
I know that the measures being taken by the coalition wouldn't work overnight, but I didn't think it was possible for matters to get worse. But they have - business is utterly diabolical and the worst I've known it, to the point where we can't sustain these conditions for very long. Maybe the spending that stimulates the economy WAS a good idea after all? I don't pretend to understand the deeper complexities of these things but just before the election things did feel like they were moving, albeit slowly. Now they've just crashed out.
I can't help feeling that the emergency budget, which seems to be putting a lot on my shoulders (ie the shoulders of the private sector business) is just going to be a massive fail as the private sector has no money and no confidence to spend at the moment. I work for just about every sector imaginable and I'm feeling this slow death all around at the moment.
My early feelings are that the coalition is going to screw things up badly. Confidence isn't low - it's gone.