More Than It Hurts You

So swimmingly is the Osbornomic recovery going, at least in the Cumbrian sense of the adverb, that the march of the makers is expected to continue its glorious retreat. The bottom has fallen out of the fossil fuels market, but the Government is too busy cutting back the green crap to worry about the consequences for North Sea oil. Steel plants are closing because supporting them through hard times would run counter to the prevailing religious orthodoxy. There is no question of a revival in the construction industry until the Government works out how to ensure that house prices can remain sufficiently high to appease the scumbag press. Accordingly, the marching makers are expected to "shrug off this year's recession" or, in Standard English, to deprive thirty thousand people of their livelihood. Britain's leading liberal newspaper considers this a "blow to George Osborne", whose anguish at missing his own targets, breaking his own pledges and denting his shoes on other people's teeth has been palpable for years.