fear, uncertainty among
consumers businesses and
among investors
It was the line after the line that was the source for this haiku that caught me eye and that line being:
Truly the hat-trick.
This is from the article, With the best glasses donor money can buy, surely Starmer can see that this week has been a total disaster by Marina Hyde in the Guardian.
I hate finding facts based on ‘polls’ but when the polls show that the only British Prime Minister to have lower poll popularity numbers that Mr. Keith Starmer (on the job now for about 44 days) was the Prime Minister one before the last one, Liz Truss.
I think Ms. Truss WAS Prime Minister for about 44 days and got to oversee the funeral of Queen Elizabeth which really was a nice bookend.
The funeral of the worlds longest reigning Monarch was during premiership of Britain’s shortest term Prime Minister.
Not sure what the over-under on that bet would have been.
Anyway … Ms. Hyde writes:
Labour took office and immediately declared things to be so dire that they were going to have to do awful and painful things to combat them – but will have left it three months before they finally explain what those awful and painful things are. This, as the former chief economist to the Bank of England Andy Haldane and many others have pointed out, has created a sense of “fear and foreboding and uncertainty among consumers, among businesses, and among investors”.
Truly the hat-trick. The current freebies row taking place during that particular information vacuum consequently feels even worse. It suggests that Starmer is a guy who talks to the public like an undertaker but in private likes the finer things in life. More than that, he feels entitled to them. That is no one’s favourite combination.
The new government in Britain, in 44 days has been able to create a sense of fear and foreboding and uncertainty among consumers.
Among businesses.
And among investors.
Truly the hat-trick.
That is no one’s favourite combination.
I kept the anglicized spelling.
Seems more posh you know that way, and it is almost a comfort that some other country seems to be as messed up as we are.
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