The economy is still going down - though it has slowed a little.

What is the Government doing ?

After France and Germany used their scrappage schemes to manipulate their "growth" figures - our Government is under pressure to deliver a GDP rise in September.

The only way to do this is to basically manipulate the figures ourselves. Scrappage has not worked - car sales are 17.9% BELOW this time last year. Yet at the moment they are working non stop behind the scenes to try and feed the modest rise in month to month sale because of scrappage into a GDP figure.

In the last week loads of companies have closed including some of the biggest employers in some areas.
VESTAS on the IoW was the only wind turbine factory in the UK - and the have closed.
S&A Fruit the biggest soft fruit grower in the West have just announced they are slashing their workforce by 60% and their output by 80% next year due to falling sales.
In retail - pound shops and charity shops dominate and outside London High Streets are still closed with no sign of any recovery.

I spoke to several businesses last week that I know. Every single one says the summer has seen at least a 20% reduction in spending and some say more. I know of some music and media companies who have seen it slump by nearly 100%.

Yet we will have NEW LIEBOUR and GORDON manipulating a few figures - adding a few noughts here and there - and then calling the end of the RECESSION.

WHy ?

Gordon knows he needs to FAKE a recovery before next MAY's election. Therefore he has to have two quarters of positive statistics. Unemployment is a problem but he will claim a slowing rate as evidence that the recovery has begin.

The brutal fact is this. In 2010 budget whoever wins the election will have to PAY THE PRICE for what BROWN is doing now. The winner will need to CUT £90 billion of spending from the annual budget. The TORIES will save money from some projects and cut quangos and waste. But that is unlikely to even provide 10% of those cuts.

I predict a WAGE FREEZE for 5 years announce in 2010 for all public employees. A 5% increase in INCOME TAX and a 20% VAT Rate. A 10p per litre fuel incrase flat. Cuts in every Government department spending. Recruitment for the Police - Schools and NHS will be frozen. Council will cut services back to the bare minimum as they get a 20% reduction in money to spend.A freeze in the minimum wage and a benefit freeze. Add to this the resulting inflation - which could rise to 5% or more.....and people with jobs will see a cut in real salary of about 10 - 20%. Hard times are ahead because Brown mismanaged the economy on a level never seen since 1975 in fact ever.

This is the future facing the UK because of what GORDON BROWN is doing. In his manifesto he will LIE again like last time ( remember a referendum on Europe ) So be warned. We are in massive and deep debt and bigger than evern 1976 when the Country had to go to the IMF. We are bankrupt.

Though I know many of you hate the Tories and I know they wont be much better than New Liebour. But another 5 years of such Laurel and Hardy politics from Mandy and Brown will turn our country into a third world state. Therefore, we need a change just to stop that from happening.

So enjoy the HEADLINES " The Recession is Over" because " THE DEPRESSION STARTS HERE "