Cameron: Gov't is all over the place
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David Cameron told LBC that the government is all over the place.
Cameron insisted Prime Minister Gordon Brown's handling of the economy is not good enough, while he also gave his backing to LBC's Back To Work With Nick Ferrari jobs campaign.
Speaking with Nick Ferrari at Breakfast, the leader of the Conservatives admitted he missed a massive opportunity in Prime Minister's Question Time when Gordon Brown called it the depression, instead of the recession.
He said: "I put my hand up. I missed it. I was thinking about my next question. You're trying to block out a lot of the noise.
"But there’s a serious point here, the government has got to have a clear and straight forward line about what sort of mess we're in, how we got here and how we get out of it and the problem is they are all saying different things.
"The Prime Minister said depression, the Chancellor is still saying the economy is going to recover at the beginning of July, Ed Balls, the Children’s Secretary, Former Economic advisor to Brown, has said we are in the worst recession for 100 years.
"So they have got to have a straight story - confidence is what we need in this economy. We need people to get out there and decide that’s time to spend and invest again. And you’re not going to do that while you’ve got the government all over the place, giving so many explanations of where we are."
Cameron says the Government needs to stop making bold predictions and instead concentrate on schemes which will kick-start the failing economy.
"I’m not a forecaster," he said, "and I think this is the government’s problem.
"They keep making different forecasts and I think that is part of their mistake. What they need to do is set a clear path for the public finances to get them under control, have some bold and simple schemes to get banks lending again, rather than what we’ve had instead is initiatives every single day, many of which never actually happen.
"And I think that is part of the problem. The public see the government running around like headless chickens, announcing lots of things but none of them really come through. And that actually saps confidence in the economy."
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