Polling day example of upside-down thinking

A FRIEND has recently been offered a job as polling agent on election day, June 5. She doesn’t feel she should take it as she has a full-time job and can’t understand why such jobs are not offered to some of the growing army of the unemployed.

I agree – and the same should apply to the election count and to the Lisbon Treaty rerun in the autumn. This may be a trivial example but it is indicative of the upside-down thinking of the Government. We had tax breaks and “light” regulation which inflated the property and credit bubble. We’ve had the establishment of yet another bad bank when we need an uncontaminated good bank to get the economy off its knees.

But the worst example of doing the wrong thing at the wrong time is the Government’s attempt to deflate its way out of the economic mess it has created. One doesn’t have to be an expert to see this is economic madness.