Month: December 2014

U.K. Economy: Trouble Ahead

December 4, 2014 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Osborne gave a confident performance yesterday. But so did Ed Balls. After last time that must have been a relief for Labour. It should rattle the Tories. Not because of the better Commons performance of the Shadow Chancellor, but because of of what lies behind it. Labour’s economic team, having stuck rigidly to a pretty […]

Cameron ‘Economy Under Control’: Really?

December 2, 2014 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

When Cameron came to power and appointed Osborne they pledged economic recovery based on certain principles. The first was the economy would be re-balanced away from housing and the financial sector. Second it would be export led, third that government spending would be cut and the deficit eliminated over a parliament, and finally government borrowing would fall. None of […]