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We have 2 days of the week which we have named, Manic Monday and Frantic Friday.
Frantic Friday is the day most warehouses and manufactures are frantic to get completed orders out before the weekend. The worst frantic Friday is the last Friday in the month, when more pressure is put on warehouse managers and transport managers to get goods delivered, to allow invoices to be sent. Otherwise the company has to wait an extra month for payment. Manic Monday is so named when again companies are pushing to get finished goods out of there warehouses before the typical Monday morning production and planning meetings start.
RFT have usually around 30 plus vehicles on the road during these two days, this Friday we had two, one returning empty from Milan and one loaded from the Check Republic. In the 7 working days previous to the 2nd of May we have had we have had 4 days of official holidays, including the Royal Wedding, with a lot of firms closing for the other 3 days.
At least we know in advance what the Conservative led coalition will use as the excuse for the next quarters growth, if as expected they are depressingly low. Most other countries are enjoying growth at about the same level as before the recession.
Since the coalition announced their austerity cuts, the growth figures have been dropping and consumer confidence is now at an all time low. We did get 0.5% growth during the first quarter of this year, which reversed the previous quarter’s growth of minus 0.5%. The coalition was quite pleased with this increase.
My colleague Ron Gold reported in December of last year ‘With unemployment rising and inflation rising, it would appear that we can expect to be bumping along just a little above the official definition of recession, for some time.’
On the 8th of February I said in the post Financial Turmoil : ‘Growth has gone down since the Tory led coalition took power, and with out a policy for job creation, growth is expected to continue on a downward path.
The general public has a lot more suffering to come, with the cuts in local authority jobs starting in April. I did predict that inflation would rise and we would just bounce along just above recession for some time. I didn’t expect we would go into negative growth until the first two quarters of 2011.’
The Royal Wedding went off without a hitch, and was an exciting day for all those who managed to be the on the streets. People and press from all over the world came to watch and take part in the celebrations. Even the China Daily reported favourably, read what they had to say.
Hopefully money generated from the occasion will help Cameron’s coalition out of the hole they have got us in, it seems his coalition don’t know what they are doing. The split in the coalition is growing, and may last the 2 years which it was predicted to last when they took power.

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Vic Farron RFT Express.
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