Fourth-quarter GDP figures awaited

Everyone in this Country could see this coming except for a very inept Chancellor and the Coalition Party he represents; the sooner this shower of half wits goes the better for this Country

Time for a change in Politics as well, honesty in Politics and the job treated as such, fail and you are kicked out, you do not have the power to keep going for 5 years making things worse month by month; we should have the right to vote a party out by declaring "no confidence" in them via a secure government site.
The turnout of voters for 2010 was 65% of those eligible, only 36% of those voted Conservative, 29% labour and 23% liberal, so this Coalition has the backing of only 38% of the population; we deserve what we have allowed to have happened because so many people do not see it as necessary to vote, yet if we voted properly we would get what we wanted as a Nation.

Voting should be compulsory,but that will not happen as it affects the parties directly, donot forget that 80% of the wealth of this Country is owned by less than 20% of its people so themajority are working for a living and we the working class are the hardest hit by this Coalition

good hope this country collapses then the british people will get the kick up the backside they deserve hopefully they will know how to vote these nutters out of parliament next time just look at how they have destroyed this country over the last 30 years its like living in a foreign land high streets are all take aways and foreign owned and its going to get worse

For the last 7 years we have been told that next year it will start to get better.........I am sorry ,but who the hell are they trying to kid?????? It's gonna get a lot worse before it gets any better.......

Don't worry JLR is syphoning billions off to India.

Just about every prediction made by the governments chosen economist have been wrong, there are a number of economist out there who have predicted quite accurately what has happened but our government refuses to accept their advice.
Most people knew that the growth was an unsustainable blip caused by the Olympics, and not a true recovery, and a triple dip recession was widely predicted, we need the growth we were promised or the austerity were forced to take will actually enhance our economic woes.
More than anything we need some people in power who have any idea of our economy, or at least to listen to the experts rather than the yes men.

Double dip, triple dip - you don't need to be the Governor of the Bank of England to know we are not in any kind of 'dip'.......this is econmoic reality. Most of the world's economies are in exactly the same position. Talk of a recovery is an illusion. So are we expecting things to go back to the so-called 'boom' era when house prices were through the roof? Banks lending people ridiculous mortgages and easy credit? Well, I wouldn't get your hopes up! Not before time, the chickens have come home to roost big time. For example, paper profits on property have bcome meaningless. We are now in a buyer's market where property is only worth what somebody is willing to pay. The only reason prices remain high in some places is because virtually no new ones are being built in the current climate. If there is recovery, how will we know it will be sustainable? There are no guarantees anymore. People are cutting back on jobs everyday because demand has fallen. The Euro is being propped up even though Germany, France and the UK know that countries like Spain, Portugal and Greece are virtually on the last throw of the dice. The sooner we get used to this being a long-term (if not permanent) states of affairs, the soon we can adapt.

Hi we have been in triple diped recession for a long time.This shower thats running us into the ground should be rounded up and sent to the moon.

I don't need to wait to hear from a group of overpaid statisticians to tell me what I and no doubt every body else already knows. To coin a phrase, it's as obvious as the nose on my face !!!
Camoron keeps on about "rebalancing" the economy; well, go and talk to most SMEs who are struggling to get any funding for their businesses. Its just lots of political rhetoric, nowt else !!!

You can't keep printing more money without earning it first.

please tell us something we don't know