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If the economy is flatlining for the next couple of years, how will it suddenly grow?

How can the Tories not be flatlining in the polls?

Twenty years ago, when my business was flatlining, Zig spoke up.

"Our economy will be flatlining at best.

"Under this Tory-led government, the economy is flatlining and it is deeply risky.

The government's economic policy is hitting the north hard: unemployment is at a seventeen year high and our economy is flatlining.

It was flatlining.

Stafford's chances were flatlining.

Deborah Orr: The coalition wishes to keep the housing market artificially stimulated, to reanimate a problem that has reached its peak, and is flatlining.

Mr Balls is correct to say the OECD said growth is flatlining.

Although Cowell's music acts are flatlining there are plenty of people on Britain's got talent who are doing ok.

PC sales are flatlining whereas iPad and iOS and Android smartphones are going through the roof.

"Facts are facts," says McCain, hammering onwards, but CNN's undecided voters aren't interested; the meter is flatlining.

Instead of blaming everyone else and trying to find excuses in the eurozone, the Government should recognise that the British economy has been flatlining for a year - long before this recent crisis began.

While opinion is divided about whether Britain will go back into recession, there is broad agreement that our economy is flatlining, with little chance of growth or increased exports giving the country a boost for some time to come.

In response to the statement, Mr Balls said the fact that "growth is flatlining this year, next year and the year after" showed that the Chancellor cut spending too fast and his plans were "a truly colossal failure".

Yes, if only Labour would stop holding its own, apologised, and came up with some sort of plan other than having the Kafkaesque Muppet Ed Balls repeating the mantra, "The Economy is flatlining" whilst Alastair Darling reminds us that they have no plan whatsoever.