And so, we are seemingly now out of the ?Recession?. Well, to this I would say, ?What recession?? What the Government and much of the media fail to acknowledge that for a large proportion of the population, who were not part of the prosperity boom, (ie, renters, public sector workers, students and all those not from a moneyed background) the so called ?recession? has made very little difference to their lives. Life has never stopped being an enormous struggle and we, that is to say, all those people who failed to benefit from the property boom, have lived an Orwellian existence, whereby the notion of prosperity we are fed from the media is held up starkly against the reality of our own lives. The ?have nots? are left feeling that somewhere in their deep and distant pasts they must done something truly evil to engender the blue print of their present situation. The fact is, the UK is not a meritocracy and it?s population are no more than pawns that are intermittently rearranged upon the political chessboard. Some are lucky, others less so. But let us examine the universal headline emblazoned across most of yesterdays press, ?Recession Over!? , with the end of the ?recession? being discussed on the BBC. Those two words, placed side by side are gain representative of the UK media?s Orwellian doublespeak. Bill Gross Co-founder of Pimco, the world?s biggest buyer of bonds, claimed conversely that the UK economy lay on a ?bed of nitroglycerine? and that the UK is a must to avoid. His views are particularly annoying to the Government as the head of Pimco?s European team is Andrew Balls, the brother of Ed Balls (UK Secretary for Education). Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman is quoted as saying, ?The British economy has had the economic equivalent of a heart attack and is still very weak.? he goes on to say, and this is the bit which I find outrageous, ?The economy remains dependent on artificial money creation?..? Hello? Excuse me! What exactly does that mean? Is he saying that the Bank of England is just merrily printing off more pieces of paper? Does this, therefore mean that I can do the same to clear my debt? Will this mean that eventually UK currency will be worthless and that we?ll be exposed to the dreaded downward spiral of hyper-inflation?
Still, as I made clear at the beginning of this piece, that won?t affect me, simply because I am a part of that gigantic enormous underbelly of people for whom there has been no economic gain during the last twelve years.
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integritas · 28/01/2010 14:55
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