Former
Conservative party deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine has suggested that
British people may be so wealthy that they lack the “national will” needed to
secure an economic recovery.
He told the Independent it was “not
essential” for the UK economy to improve: “It could keep drifting down”.
He said one theory was that the
richer people were, the less desire they had to improve their situation.
Basically Heseltine is stating the reason the
economy is the way it is, has nothing to do with the government’s policies, and
is instead down to the fact that the public are simply too rich to care about
it improving.
I’m sure families and businesses up and down the
country are delighted at the state the economy is in, because everyone’s making
an absolute fortune. Out of touch immediately springs to mind.
Heseltine’s comment about how it isn’t essential for
the economy to improve and how it can keep drifting down is puzzling.
Having been recently downgraded and threatened with
further reductions, and with growth cut again, and the threat of a triple dip
recession, somehow I don’t think we are in a position to say ‘oh don’t worry
about the economy it can keep on sliding and it won’t matter’.
These comments from Heseltine are hard to fathom, I don’t
see what point he’s trying to make and also there’s very little to agree with.
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