Sunday, Aug 30, 2009
Ipsos MORI research shows that 43% of Britons now believe the UK is emerging from recession
Observer / Guardian: Support for Gordon Brown falling as economic confidence grows, reveals poll
Ipsos MORI research shows the proportion of people expecting the economy to improve in the next 12 months has staged the biggest recovery in nearly three decades of polling, with 43% of Britons now believing the UK is emerging from recession. Surprisingly the article does not mention who the 43% are when the next to last paragraph states that only one in four people over 65 think the economy will improve over the next year and only one in 20 of those under 35 are positive!
Posted by enuii @ 12:41 PM (1166 views) Add Comment
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1. charlie brooker said...
Wow! After having spent or committed those trillions and 57% don't!
2. alan_540 said...
Couldn't happen to a nicer bloke lol
3. japanese uncle said...
Considering the normal distribution of IQ among the population, this 43% may not be too bad.
4. uncle tom said...
enuii is right to doubt the maths - the numbers can only be credible if the researchers failed to survey a proportionate number of those under 35 and over 65..
5. gone-to-colombia said...
You can fool some of the people some of the time...................................
6. alan_540 said...
The 43% of people who are optimistic are those in the 35-65 age range i.e. those with big mortgages to pay - I think it's telling that the majority of this age range recognize that we're not recovering yet...
7. will said...
Wishful thinking.
8. Charlie White said...
We may perhaps be emerging from Phase 1 of the recession. What happens when the ginormous debt has to be paid back?
9. denzil said...
Thank God the British public are seeing Brown for what he is. Brown's economic miracle was built (in-part) on debt and the rising out of the current recession built on more debt. It's difficult at this point to see the impact of massive Govt borrowing but I do fear we will see more frequent and more aggressive boom bust cycles, ultimately ending in some new type of economic model as capitalism seems to me to be an unsustainable model, because the fuel of capitilism requires growth and I just can't see where growth can sustainably be generated without fabricating it with more debt.
10. Mr Plumbase said...
All this shows is that folks believe what the media tells them rather than what they see with their own eyes.
11. Raybies said...
Iceland my friends... the UK is 6 months away from being totally broke.
Don't worry, life continues it's just going to be a little different.