Fix The Roof While The Sun Is Shining Osborne

We must act now to fix the roof while the sun is shining.

Fix the roof while the sun is shining osborne.

Kennedy the time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining state of the union address january 11 1962. Media caption george osborne. While this quote is listed as unsourced at wikiquote the 9th entry in their unsourced section it is still widely held that he said something like this. If so the quote probably goes back to a saying.

The sun is shining on the economy and if the roof is not exactly fixed it has been patched up. The time to repair a roof is when the sun is shining. Fixing the roof while the sun is shining osborne s new spending rule. Osborne we ll fix the roof while the sun is shining yep george s catchphrase has staged a glorious return.

The accompanying forecasts published by the office for budget responsibility yesterday showed that the perennial output gap will have closed by then. It s a soundbite that has served george osborne well down the years and he s still using it as the rationale for the government s deficit. Famously said the time to fix the roof is while the sun is shining as we enter the 11th year of this recovery it is definitely time to do a full assessment of our roof testing where the vulnerabilities lie and fixing. Other countries plans for post covid 19 recovery involve less reliance on oil.

Kennedy what does that mean. The chancellor has announced that he will attempt to bind future governments to maintaining a budget. But the uk s recovery is still fragile and the autumn statement threatened to get ahead of itself. The risks are being piled up for 2018 onwards.

W e are fixing the roof while the sun is shining. Nigeria must fix the roof while the sun is shining if it wants to survive the next storm. The 10 events that will drive or tank the economy in 2019. George osborne justified this approach by referring to a past failure to fix the roof when the sun was shining and the evidence for this is well documented.