Economy 
Britain and the Euro(0)
I am not normally a fan of Peter Oborne – he looks a bit like a right-wing Gordon Brown. Having said that one cannot argue with the thesis he lays out in this very entertaining booklet on the disgraceful way Clegg, Huhne, Heseltine, Blair, the BBC and CBI tried to sell our currency down the [...]
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“British jobs for British workers”
Image via Wikipedia Remember that phrase from our Brownian leader. Well, I guess his tune is changing yet again and Lord Mandy is advising him that it was an ill advised and ridiculous statement. We are seeing demonstrations at Grangemeouth and the French going on strike and at the heart of the demonstrations is the [...]
Bail outs and Busts
I am a naturally optimistic person but today’s news of further High Street chains going bust (albeit a shoe chain who I do not believe I have ever bought shoes from) and now Lord Mandy’s pledge of a multi-million pound bail out of the motor industry, you cannot help thinking the world is coming to [...]
Clegg thinks dumping the pound will put the economy right
Sometimes, in an attempt to get any press activity, the Lib Dems come up without the most absurd ideas. The latest is that Nick Clegg believes that because the economy is buggered under Labour that we are all going to start clamouring to dump the pound and take up the Euro. In an interview with [...]