UK in double-dip recession

[afleitch]

My tax was cut in my wages today despite an increase in my pension contributions. Not too shabby

But will you be 'laid off' soon?

No. I'm a government employee and my work has made the cuts it was required to do. So fingers crossed.

[You kip if you want to...]

But Ed Miliband will never be Prime Minister.

Weren't you saying that when he beat David for leader?

I'm not acting like he's a better leader than David would've been, but it's just wrong for the Tories to be complacent just because Ed's "wierd" eventhough they're 10% behind in the polls and Dave Cameron's circling the drain at John Major levels of support. Just look to France to see what at the complacency formally popular incumbent can do, even against the media-dubbed "wierd" opposition guy. It happened in 1970 and 1979 here, complacent governments losing to oppositions which they didn't deem worthy, but the electorate apparently did. It's not like David Cameron's the epitomy of electability either, he didn't "win" the most winnable election in 13 years.

Ed is, and has been since September 2010, my preferred Prime Minister and I actually think he's been doing a great job since the start of the year.