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Speaker 1: Except that the government are struggling in the polls. You

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Speaker 1: may well accept the general notion that part of what

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Speaker 1: is driving that is the lack of runs on the board, perhaps,

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Speaker 1: and impatience is frustrating some of us. We voted to

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Speaker 1: get rid of the last lot on the understanding that

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Speaker 1: things have been wrecked and destroyed and there was this

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Speaker 1: new lot that we're going to put it right. Trouble

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Speaker 1: has been as they've tried to explain things. Fiscal cliffs

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Speaker 1: were a lot worse than anticipated. And the problem with

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Speaker 1: too many voters is we vote and move on, and

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Speaker 1: then when we re engage, we expect fixes to problems

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Speaker 1: that are more complex than we gave them credit for.

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Speaker 1: So this government has announced a lot, changed a lot,

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Speaker 1: but the simple to read runs on the board are

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Speaker 1: only starting to trickle through. The downturn on crime would

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Speaker 1: be one of them. I would have thought the police

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Speaker 1: focus on running up a few people so we feel

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Speaker 1: safer on the streets. That's a tangible Are the targets

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Speaker 1: on emergency housing being met years ahead of schedule? That's another, surely,

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Speaker 1: And yesterday the Gross Domestic Product the GDP surely one

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Speaker 1: of the most important of all it is the economy,

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Speaker 1: and the economy is everything pays the bills retires that

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Speaker 1: it forks out for the program sets the mood of

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Speaker 1: the nation. If you, and as it turns out, think

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Speaker 1: the good lord we are you are moving forward, and

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Speaker 1: moving forward is what gets popular governments and governments re elected. Everyone,

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Speaker 1: as in the experts had the number at anywhere between

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Speaker 1: zero point three and zero point five percent, importantly, of course,

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Speaker 1: in the right direction, in the positive. So the actual

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Speaker 1: figure zero point seven is better than expected. It must

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Speaker 1: be the best of news I would have thought, for

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Speaker 1: a country that has spent more time in recession than

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Speaker 1: virtually anyone, certainly anyone we compare ourselves to anyone in

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Speaker 1: the OECD. This cannot be overstated in terms of importance.

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Speaker 1: Zero point seven surely comes with the sense that there

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Speaker 1: is more where that came from. So maybe, just maybe

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Speaker 1: we can turn our backs on the dark days or

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Speaker 1: in our case, dark years, that have dragged this country

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Speaker 1: to places economically it's never really been. No, it is

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Speaker 1: not over, and yes there is much to do. But

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Speaker 1: such a decent, dare I suggest, better than expected number

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Speaker 1: will tell you the current government might have got a

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Speaker 1: grip on the worst of it and turn the tide.

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