I'm not really sure why Cameron is so upset. Have you got any idea? I'm not feeling much confidence in the coallition!
It's a comment that is entirely sensible in my opinion, but with the rather knee-jerk stupid inflationary reactions coming from (amongst others) the red side of things, he's bound to try to distance himself from it. Although really he didn't, he said it was insensitive and inaccurate but let the guy keep his position, possibly because he agreed while having to appease the people.
I don't know of any optimistic contractors or architects and engineers.
I know of a few who are seeing a vast and sudden influx of work here in the UK, in the hundreds of million contracts. So busy they're now run off their feet after laying off a few staff to get through the tighter patch.