Gordon Brown informs us that the recession will be over in Britain by Christmas. We must all hope devoutly that he is right.
However, given the wild inaccuracy of his predictions to date, it is reasonable to suppose that there is a strong possibility that he will be proved wrong yet again.
The question why the Prime Minister feels constantly compelled to give such hostages to fortune is an interesting one. Either he is, despite the evidence of experience, still convinced of the infallibility of his own judgment, or he has now arrived at the point of desperation where he really doesn’t care.
Either way, we would all have cause to be profoundly disturbed if we were to think about it for any length of time.
