Jonathan Portes
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32 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2012
last heard Oct 2013
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When you were elected to run Trumptonshire as county council, you immediately put up the tax on suites in corner shops and at the same time you cancelled replacing the roof on the local school.
Yes, I think the recovery is here.
At the moment, the economy seems to be going at quite a reasonable pace in Tramptonshire.
We've seen expansion in business services, especially transport, distribution.
Yes, we're doing pretty well here.
This is definitely the slowest recovery in recorded economic history.
On the other hand, from your point of view, that's sort of a good thing because the fact that the recovery has been so slow up to now, that unemployment is still so high, means that Trumptonshire should have the potential to grow quite quickly.
There are lots of unemployed people in Trumptonshire, lots of people who are working part-time.
There are still factories which are not producing at capacity.
The potential for fast growth is definitely there.
Well, you certainly have got some fairly nasty future cuts programmed in.
What I would hope, though, is that while your initial cuts were clearly at the wrong time, because you were cutting when Frumdenshire was already in a pretty bad situation and the rest of the world wasn't doing that well either, so it was the wrong time to cut,
Let's hope that your future cuts come at a time when the economy is much better able to support that sort of austerity.
Lots of things could knock the recovery off course.
Tramptonshire, which exports a lot of things to the Eurozone, was clearly damaged a lot by what was going on in the Eurozone a couple of years ago, and things have improved quite a lot there.
But the Eurozone crisis is by no means over, and if it reappeared, as it may well do, then that could do significant damage.
Dibble getting a job as a state agent is hardly rebalancing Trump and Scheer's economy, is it?
It would have been perhaps better if he'd got a job in something that was producing for the export market, but beggars can't be choosers.
Well, a lot of it will happen naturally.
Remember that your predecessors in the 90s turned a deficit that was actually bigger than the deficit we have now into a surplus in five years, and you're only promising to do it in seven or eight.
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