If you are running the economy well, after a while it gets pretty boring to the political class, says Jonathan Portes, director of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research. So naturally they get inclined to do other things. 如果你把经济管理得很好,过了一段时间后,政治阶层会觉得相当厌烦,英国国家经济社会研究院(NIESR)院长乔纳森波特斯(JonathanPortes)说,所以他们自然就会想做其他事情。
Mr Portes adds that, even if this is not true for the UK on its own, it is likely to be true for Europe since almost everybody is retrenching simultaneously. 波特斯补充道,即便英国不出现这种状况,就整个欧洲而言也可能出现这种状况,因为几乎各方都在同时减支。
Jonathan Portes, director of the London-based National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said: You now have to think about what you personally would do if you were an Italian with € 20,000 in an Italian bank. 总部位于伦敦的国家经济社会研究院(NIESR)的院长乔纳森波特斯(JonathanPortes)表示:如果你是一个意大利人,在一家意大利银行有2万欧元存款,那么现在你不得不考虑自己该怎么办。
Recent data on the UK support his scepticism, as Jonathan Portes of the National Institute for economic and social research has also noted. 英国国家经济与社会研究所(niesr)的乔纳森波特斯(jonathanportes)也指出,英国最近的数据支持了萨默斯的怀疑。