And most depressing blogger Xmas 2011 goes to....

He started on 20th December with a heart-warming childhood tale from over the Irish Sea:

It was for me the epitome of hardship and deprivation. I grew up in this building during the whole of Margaret Thatcher’s first term in power. The only building of significance close by was the corner shop, and as a young boy it, the shop, was the centre of my universe, a place to lavish oneself in luxury should you ever come into a bob or two. But you didn’t did you?

Before treating his readers, on 21st December, to:

"7 reasons why 15 million Britons are set for a Tory Christmas from hell." A post which concluded: "Winter will kill about 30,000 people this year as the Tories have cut the Winter Fuel Allowance payments."

However, if that's not enough misery for you, while berating 'the death of the high street' on 22nd December Eion promises:

I will provide updates over the Christmas break of other companies that go into administration.

To top it all off though, he followed up with 'Domestic Abuse at Christmas'. Complete with chilling tales of rape and other violence it includes this advice for 'Green Benches' readers:

Now please keep an eye on your loves ones. No matter how functional the relationship may appear please be on the look out for signs of abuse and violence.

Well if this is the sign of things to come over at Eoinomics, I'll be won't be renewing my subscription! He seemed a bit merrier yesterday though (and certainly made me chuckle), when he penned this absolute corker, entitled "Ed Balls is right" and containing this little nugget:

Brown also believed in restrained spending right up until the dot.com crash of 2003. He spent a little, correctly, to steer us clear of dot.com danger, and perhaps slightly neglected to slow the pace of spending a little after 2005. But up until then Gordon was, in many ways, prudence personified.

Merry Christmas Eoin! Merry?