tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565399.post740757489604000330..comments2024-03-21T09:30:11.468+00:00Comments on Man in a Shed: Fantasy narratives - failing economyMan in a Shedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00990902055642035293noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565399.post-75246148817015049552009-01-12T08:43:00.000+00:002009-01-12T08:43:00.000+00:00Rugfish - What worries me is I think they do have ...Rugfish - What worries me is I think they do have a new Economic plan and I think it was thought up in the same way as the announcement McNulty is trying to defend - by some Spin merchants with no reference to expert advice.<BR/><BR/>This is confiemd by the comments from LabourList I quote from Mandleson and also by the quater baked announcement today of the goverbnment blowing another £500 million on a scheme for jobs.<BR/><BR/>Which I have already heard dismissed on the radio as stupid in a contracting job market - other criticisms have been made by the likes of Frank Field who points out whats the point in training when employers can employ non- EU nationals ?<BR/><BR/>The £2.5 per long term unemployed taken on is just stupid and shows that no one with private sector experience was involved in cooking the thing up. ( £2.5k compared to the cost of employing the wrong person is a drop in the ocean ). In fact I was just about to do a post on the subject ...Man in a Shedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00990902055642035293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9565399.post-78594594314771367952009-01-12T07:12:00.000+00:002009-01-12T07:12:00.000+00:00Well spotted Man in a Shed, I didn't see the inter...Well spotted Man in a Shed, I didn't see the interview so thanks for making a good case of it. I agree with you. McNulty does usually have some media skills however ever since he said on Newsnight that "Georgoe Orwell's 1984 is my favourite book and I've read it many times", I've taken everything he and his compatriots say with large doses of sodium chloride, or 'salt' for those of us who speak more plainly than Labour especially the dark force of spin Peter Mandelson.<BR/><BR/>So Barclays and MSN have cleared the matter. Well done for letting us know that too. I didn't know. Also, I guess this 'hi-tech bright green future' which Labour is plugging is surely only intended as you say to make the Tories green with envy at the next vote count, and thus Labour's attempt to give 'hi-tech answers' must be uncovered before it tricks the electorate again.<BR/><BR/>Can I ask what you think of the unanswered question which Paxman gave. If you run it again you'll notice he asks whether there is some "new economic plan". You will understand that 35,000 people would inevitably be a tax burden if no jobs are actually created. Yet in the technological stakes we have car-plants holding on by their teeth whilst laying masses off, and Dell Computers shipping their manufacturing to Poland. <BR/><BR/>Notwithstanding the predicament what you describe of Barclays itself, it has laid off 450 people from its own technology department and doubtless other will follow. Rolls Royce may be another one to follow Beoing which cut back 4,500 jobs last week too.<BR/><BR/>The government I think must think the electorate is so stupid but Paxman and the media isn't really following through with its questioning. Clearly the twats are in it together.rugfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05581952345004875137noreply@blogger.com