Britain Heads For A Recession

For the first time in 16 years, Britain's economy is heading for a recession. All on the day that the FTSE has fallen again, the DOW has plunged and the pound suffered its worst drop against the dollar since Black Wednesday. Sky's Michael Wilson reports.

The skilled worker on the Alen brothers... …are busy. But only after 40 of the 250 staff may be redundant when orders for their// windows and doors began to slow. I am very pleased to say that 20 all of those people were able to find alternative employment elsewhere, but nevertheless the world is excessively harder than it is. . Small businesses like this around frontline, is the economy gets hammered. Yes, …been seen concern for the future, and I think moment job is safe for the minute, but who knows for the future. I am a single dad with two kids, so like the think, my job is safe. I have been here for 21 year through like I say who knows … I got a laid off later one from here … but I am gonna laid off. And it was a devastating thing because I wouldn’t be able to … two kids to bring up Today,

official configures confirmed were everybody had feared, the economy had shrunk in the last quarter are not only that by an unexpectedly point five of percent more than twice the predicated drop. we are determined to do everything we can and as soon as we can to help people who is to lose their jobs ,so they can get back to work and the businesses getting into difficulty we do our level best to help them

The country still is not in officially recession, It will take a second quarter of negative growth for that could be confirmed. After that figure some in the city nothing that economy will continue to slow well into next year, and then remain flat and then maybe just maybe some green shoots of recovery in the spring of 2010, one thing is for certain it will be a long whole Most the economy is in its worst state for eighteen years sparking demands for a serious policy response.

I think the bank of England will cut interest rate sharply, I think they will cut interest rate at least two percents but if I was there I would actually argue that rate should be down to one percent by next summer

The leader of the Conservative Party says the government should have been better prepared.

We’ve ten years been told no more booming- bust, ten years of government no putting aside money for a rainy day, well that rainy day has now come. We will get though this but we need change.

There is concerned that output has shrunk so significantly so early on in the downturn. How long the slump will last and how deep it will be is a question for the future. Now the earness is on the bank of England since inflation is yesterday story, today's question/s is how quickly can it get the cost of borrowing down and how quickly will it work.

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16年來，英國經(jīng)濟首次陷入衰退。 在黑色星期三，F(xiàn)TSE 再次下跌，道瓊斯指數(shù)大幅跳水，英鎊相對美元再次疲軟。Sky新聞Michael Wilson報道。

Alen兄弟公司的技術工人非常……非常忙碌。由于他們接到的門窗訂單減少，250名員工中，將有40人被裁。我可以很高興的說，所有的人都可以找到其他類似的工作。但是現(xiàn)在的形勢比表面上還要嚴峻。位于前沿的這類小公司首當其沖，感受到經(jīng)濟危機的沖擊。考慮到對以后的擔憂，我認為目前先暫時找份工作比較安全，但是將來的事情誰說的準呢。我是兩個孩子的單親爸爸，這樣來考慮，我的工作是安全的。我已經(jīng)在這里工作了21年了。但是就像我說的，將來的事情誰知道呢。我暫時不會被解雇，但是我以后可能會被解雇，這對我來說是毀滅性的消息，因為我還有兩個孩子要撫養(yǎng)。

官方數(shù)字是所有人都擔心的。上個季度，經(jīng)濟意外的縮水5%，比預期高出兩倍以上。我們一定竭盡全力盡快幫助那些將要失業(yè)的人，以使他們盡快恢復工作。對那些陷入困境的公司，我們也會盡最大努力去幫助他們。

現(xiàn)在國家還沒有完全陷入衰退。如果下一季度經(jīng)濟仍然負增長，衰退的消息就將被證實。官方數(shù)據(jù)宣布后，有人認為，經(jīng)濟增長減慢會持續(xù)到明年，然后保持平穩(wěn)，到2010年春季可能會恢復。有一點是肯定的，英國經(jīng)濟是18年來最糟糕的狀態(tài)，需要政府采取政策性的支持。

我認為英格蘭銀行會大幅降低利率，我認為至少會降低2%。但是如果我是英格蘭銀行官員的話，我會降的更多 ，到明年夏天會將利率下調(diào)到1%。

英國保守黨領袖說，政府本應準備的更好。

十年來我們都被告知今后會繁榮昌盛，是年來政府都沒有未雨綢繆，現(xiàn)在災難來臨了。我們一定會挺過這段時間，但是需要一些改變。

有人擔心，在經(jīng)濟低迷中，支出銳減。經(jīng)濟蕭條會持續(xù)多久，影響會有多深都是未知數(shù)。通貨膨脹已經(jīng)成為過去，現(xiàn)在的問題是，怎樣迅速降低借貸成本，多久能夠起到作用。