CAMERON: Don't Blame Me If The Economy Crashes - It's Everyone Else's Fault

REUTERS/Luke MacGregor British prime minister David Cameron has penned a piece for the Guardian today, with one basic message: don't blame me if the economy tanks before the election.

He's flagging up all the big concerns for the global economy:

Everything sounds a bit bleak. In 2006, just after he'd become Conservative party leader, Cameron famously pushed an optimistic strategy, saying that the Tories should "let sunshine win the day". Since then, the economics have turned in Cameron's favour. While the rest of the eurozone flirts with deflation and recession, the UK still has decent economic growth. It's not perfect, of course. The poor have basically missed out on the recovery. But the UK looks good in comparison to its peers.

The Guardian piece goes on:

It's a curious message: David Cameron swept to power in 2010 after an election campaign that asserted that the global financial crisis wasn't just a global phenomenon, but was specifically the fault of the governing Labour party. He's now preparing to go into another election campaign warning people that the economy severely in danger from the global economy, but the slowdown isn't to be blamed on him.