Stephen PrenticeWell that is the only plausible solution I can offer for two separate news items over the past couple of days.
According to government figures reported this morning by the BBC the UK is in a recession. Well knock me down with a feather, I would never have guessed! Half the high street has gone bust, there are close on 2 million unemployed, the stock market is on the floor and it just keeps getting worse. Since the fact that we were in a recession was blindingly obvious to everyone in the country (apart from the government it would seem) they must be occupying a parallel universe where a different reality exists.
(And yes, I realise the technical definition of a recession require two consecutive quarters of negative growth, but it is government pronoucements like this one that convince an already cynical population of their lack of grasp on reality!)
The second example I will offer took place at an unearthly hour yesterday morning. I am not a morning person so whilst my wife was charging around getting ready for work she was listening to one of the morning TV programs. Through the fog of a brain still lacking sufficient caffeine to kick start the neural synapses I heard some studio “expert” talking about the dangers of uncontrolled access to the internet by children and informing us that “some teenagers are spending as much as two hours a week on Facebook”. TWO HOURS A WEEK?! This guy clearly didn’t have teenage children. How about four or more hours a DAY! In fact it is probably longer, since they use it as a backdrop to everything else, switching effortlessly from homework to IM to updating their status and checking on the latest photos from their friends. All I can imagine is that this gentleman was discussing the behaviour of children in the same parallel universe that the UK government is occupying, because it doesn’t look or feel much like the one I am in!!!
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