The Phoney War ends?

A few months after UK Government elections, then the more recent Welsh , Northern Ireland and Scottish devolved Government elections, alongside major changes in local Government in England, we are now beginning to see the real challenges ahead. Forget any smokescreens around greater longer term political or ecomic autonomy, or debates around social market economics.

The real challenge for the next few months is surely how we manage the implementation of a very challenging phase in public finances without causing genuine social division. We are going to see many protests, growing support for many individual and worthy causes, and continued hardship across the "working" and "middle" classes if such definitions exist. And "Government" in the broadest sense of all Governments in the UK including coaltions partners is not united so is hardly likely to provide consistent, clear direction. We live in interesting times.



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