Jobs and Growth

Part of Debate on the Address – in the House of Commons at 2:25 pm on 17 May 2012.

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Photo of Tobias Ellwood Tobias Ellwood Conservative, Bournemouth East 2:25, 17 May 2012

My hon. Friend makes an important point. This is a busy year for tourism in Britain and we must get those aspects right. This is not the first time that those points have been mentioned in this debate, and I think that the Chancellor has taken them on board.

The other thing I would like to point out about the local elections—this will be the same in future elections—is the deluge of news that has been thrown at us by the 24-hour news industry. We must think about how the message is managed, not just about the message itself. The Budget is remembered more for Labour’s sensationalist catchphrases, which have been heard again today, than for its game-changing announcements, such as the increase in the personal allowance, which will affect 24 million people; the largest single rise in pensions ever; and the cuts in corporation tax, which make us the most competitive country in the G8.

The latest phrase that Labour is peddling, which has leaked into the media, is “double-dip recession”. If I took my son, Alex, to the fairground and we went on a rollercoaster called “The Double Dip”, he would be pretty disappointed—even at the age of three—if the second dip was eight times smaller than the first. Labour is being disingenuous with the figures and undermines our economy by constantly peddling that phrase. [ Interruption. ] I hear Labour Members grumbling, so perhaps we should look at the figures. The Q1 results for 2012 were better than the GDP growth results for 2011, which suggests that the graph is going in the right direction.

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stinky will
Posted on 26 Jun 2012 2:22 pm (Report this annotation)

"My hon. Friend makes an important point. This is a busy year for tourism in Britain and we must get those aspects right."

or wrong as with the bournemouth surf reef,a broken failed project carried out by firm whose record of failure around the world on the same project was well known.