CBI chief attacks Brown

The government must improve the way it communicates its economic recovery plans, which lack a coherent strategy and timeline, and have left businesses and the public confused according to the CBI

And its director general thinks that Gordon Brown should take Barack Obama's www.recovery.gov as an example for the good.

Richard Lambert accuses the government of fire fighting rather than running a coherent strategy and adds that

it’s hard to remember – let alone distinguish between – the welter of initiatives that it has launched in the past couple of months.

Some cutting remarks from Richard Lambert who goes on to say that

here’s not nearly enough precision about when all this noise is going to get converted into action. Very few of the initiatives have yet been given clear start-up dates. If you ask business people around the country whether they have noticed anything actually happening at the coal face, the chances are that most of them will shrug their shoulders.