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  There was quite staggering news from France and Germany today on economic growth figures. It makes you think and ponder. Both countries are of course the power backbone of the Eurozone, those countries that have the euro as their currency, and according to the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme this morning, both nations have surprised all with "rapid growth" figures in the first quarter of 2011. This is very good news for them indeed.
  
  We often hear the Eurozone derided as hopeless, with soothsayers prophesying the demise of the Euro, but on the contrary we get growth like this. France has a full 1% growth figure against its name for this quarter and the population are spending their way out of recession because there is more money sloshing around their economy. Yes people are spending. People have money to spend. Germany's growth was even higher tipping the scale at 1.5%. These are excellent figures.
  
  Even some of the lower nations in the Eurozone are moving forward and seeing growth.
  
  This country on the other hand... is going through the harshest of times and experiencing the harshest of measures, and with no money sloshing about in the economy is bumbling along the bottom of the graph, only minimally missing the tag of double dip. Could this be because we are outside the Euro? We have to ask. We had a deeper recession than any comparable economy too...could this be because we are outside the Euro?? Better to be inside the block than not!?
  
  Germany is the engine room of course and they appear to be booming with a 5% larger economy since this time last year. How do they do it...while we languish at the bottom.

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