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Subtle shift in government’s language

One or two articles in this morning’s Daily Telegraph suggest an ever so slight shift in the government’s language and position on the recession, not quite an admission of abject failure, but more a quivering of the lip like naughty schoolboys facing the headmaster after being caught with their hands in the sweetie jar.

It would be almost impossible to believe that Gordon Brown could be upfront and apologise to the British people for the plight that he has helped design for us (almost single handedly) one suspects that full blown apologies are not yet in his make up, yet being a religious man he may be tempted at some point to see the error of his ways and at least acknowledge some part in Britain’s downfall. In this first article he calls on Britain to show confidence in itself, we’re all in this mess together you know, the war spirit and all that, after all he doesn’t want us to believe that it’s all his fault. Then he spins into the usual mantras :

• I have utter confidence in our ability to come through this (Britain is best place)
• We are adamant that we are going to deal with that problem(getting on with the job)

Thankfully in the interview he doesn’t call on the British people to show confidence in him!

Next he goes on to remind the economic powers in the world to beef up international institutions, a sure sign that by time he applies to the IMF to bail out Britain it may well have ran out of resources of it’s own (can’t beat planning ahead Gordon)

“We need to reform and strengthen international institutions, giving them power and resources to invest at a global level,”

The IMF has already stated that a number of nations are calling upon it for financial assistance, and at the rate that Brown is building public debt there is an outside realistic chance that we may have to join the queue, this is probably the reason why the seller of snake oil, Lord Mandelson, is warning that the UK government needs to prove that it can repay it’s international and foreign debt, otherwise investors will withdraw from the UK, the pound will plummet even further and the economy will run the risk of total collapse. Whilst Brown and Mandelson are away in Davos they will not have been warmed by the reports of British energy and refinery workers demonstrating against Brown’s “British jobs for British workers” policy, which has seen an influx of new jobs over the past ten years going mainly to migrant workers, the government will be wanting these demonstrations to quietly go away, however, so long as we keep seeing pictures on our TV screens of rioting Greeks and French protestors on the streets of Paris, then workers in key UK industries will feel even more encourage to continue their protests.

Brown and the Prince of Darkness seem to be saying this weekend that they know they are in pretty much a mess, that they are not quite sure how to get out of it, they’re pretty sure of how we got into but don’t want to make a full admission of culpability yet, but please Mr. Headmaster don’t be too hard on us after all it was their fault not ours.

It’s a very subtle change of language indicating regrets without confessions, but the plan is still clear – make sure there is nothing left for the Tories to work with!

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