Weekend reading
A slightly different take on the recession from Mark Easton:
It must be the perverse part of my nature, but when asked to go somewhere that illustrated the looming recession, I chose the place analysts had identified as the most immune to the downturn, he begins.
I’d agree: it must be the perverse part of his nature – the same part he votes with. So, instead of a piece that looks at the pain the recession is already causing, we get a run down of Labour’s fantastic achievements over the last ten years.
New Labour’s anthem from the mid-90s promised “Things Can Only Get Better”. And Corby has been living that dream. It still is – riding the wave of consumerism that has transformed Britain, he gushes. He also manages to find someone who shares his enthusiasm for recessions.
“[T]his might help to save us,” reckons Frank Black. More alert readers will know that this must be nonsense, though. Because if the piece tells us anything it’s surely that only Gordon can save us.
corby ???? riding a wave ??? is it flooding up there ?
bloody prat every where is stalling that is a fact oh well apart from bailiffs!!!
“I chose the place analysts had identified as the most immune to the downturn”
Surely that would be the BBC?
You misrepresent this piece. it started life as a radio piece, on r5 I think. the thrust was very much about how young people, in a town devastated by an earlier recession, had never experienced a recession, and would struggle to adapt to a new recession. famine after feast, if you like.
The notion it is a piece of pro-govt propagandising is not correct.
‘Consumerism’ – where the people of this country buy products made in other countries. Gordon Brown is a real genius, a “towering intellect”. But the bills are coming through the doors now and there is no industry to export produce to take advantage of our collapsing currency and thus eventually pay the bills. I suppose such a ruinous, idiotic policy (for it is a policy – conducted over a decade) shouldbe called Brownism.
The notion it is a piece of pro-govt propagandising is not correct.
whitewineliberal | 26.10.08 – 1:06 pm | #
While the views are entirely free and hence reasonable to have and articulate, the conclusion and the presumption of the tone is one I cannot share, IMHO. And hence, sadly, colours how I view the rest.
Simply stating something ‘is’, just don’t make it so. Much as some media and its apologists would wish. Along with the odd notion that no dissenting views can exist, or if they do, are simply to be denied.
Rob,
Yes – either Broadcasting House or Westminster would have been the place to go.