Triple Dip Recession - It's Coming,

[Gromit]

This is what Osborne promised at the last election.

1. Eliminate the bulk of the structural deficit over a Parliament.

2. We will create the conditions for higher exports, business investment and saving as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

3. Reduce youth unemployment and reduce the number of children in workless households as part of our strategy for tackling poverty and inequality.

4. Improve Britain’s international rankings for tax competitiveness and business regulation.

5. Increase the private sector’s share of the economy in all regions of the country, especially outside London and the South east.

6. Raise productivity growth in the public sector in order to deliver better schools and a better NHS.

7. reform the regulation and structure of the banking system to ensure lower levels of leverage, less dependence on unstable wholesale funding, and greater availability of credit for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

8. Reduce UK greenhouse gas emissions and increase our share of global markets for low carbon technologies.

- Do you think they have delivered on any/ all of these points?
- Has the plan failed or have they failed to follow the plan?
- Is it time to rip up the plan and actually tackle the problems?

[aelmpvw]

no on all points ... was it one of baldrick's plans?

[NOX]

''3. Reduce the number of children in workless households as part of our strategy for tackling poverty and inequality. ''
Are they planning on employing the child catcher then?

[rojash]

..and way back then, when he started banging on about austerity, I predicted that he would plunge us into deep recession.

[New Judge]

And what did they say they had planned to do after lunch?

[DaisyNonna]

Is that a double dead cat bounce?

[jno]

I suppose you'd have to ask Osborne that, New Judge, he was the one making the pledges. Point 1 will have to wait - it's not looking great at the moment but he's entitled to set his own deadline. The rest... aren't looking great at the moment either, with or without a stated deadline. Perhaps he meant "in our fourth term".

[stokemaveric]

as is the usual tory policy [the liberals are just a sideshow] they hammer the poor and look after their own...

[Gromit]

New Judge

There is no lunch.