The UK Trade deficit was worse than expected in February.
Goods exported in February were the lowest since 2010.
The trade deficit with the EU is at a record high.
The UK economy is 70% consumer spending and has not been rebalanced in favour of manufacturing.
Most economists agree that no long term recovery can be built on this model.
The UK has the lowest productivity per capita of any of the industrial nations, behind the US, Germany, France, etc.
We need to have an election campaign that stops throwing insults and tossing out financial promises which are unlikely to be kept and instead gets real on what is going on in the world on which we depend.