Tag Archive for ‘Gordon Brown’
Britain and the Euro
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 [...]
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 [...]
What if Brown has got it right?
Image via Wikipedia This has been a funny recession so far. It has come with quite devastating speed and yet, even now, the indicators are unclear as to its effect or how many will get hurt. Our economy is structured differently from the past (even less industry to get hurt) and is based more and [...]
VAT cut has failed, says Cameron
Image by Ewan McIntosh via Flickr Any idea that the VAT cut has helped the economy climb out of this recession is a long way wide of the mark. David Cameron blasted the silly policy this morning by saying: I think this will go down in history as one of the most appalling wastes [...]
Brown saving the Universe
Priceless from William Hague at PMQ’s. “If this is Gordon Brown saving the world then God help us when he moves on to the Universe”
The Germans think Brown is bonkers
Image by Eifachfilm Vacirca via Flickr So much for Gordon Brown’s claim that his spending and borrowing spree is supported by every country in the world for it now appears that the Germans agree with David Cameron that this scheme is financial suicide. See this from mark Mardell at the BBC. The commission wants all [...]
To Keynes or not to Keynes
Image via Wikipedia So, our esteemed Prime Minister and is devilishly eye-browed side kick the Chancellor have decided that they want to be Keynesians as spend more money when the country is in recession. That is all very well, except they appear to be wanting to pick the bits of Keynes they like and leave [...]
Is Mandelson thinking about his own future?
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Mandelson has had a wretched time at the hands of the press. His personal vanity has always seemes to have got in the way of his maintaining a high profile in UK politics – certainly money and vanity led to his previous downfalls. He has had a torrid relationship [...]
Mandy the red-tape Eurocrat
Image via Wikipedia So, your party is languishing in the polls and the General Election is looking like being a disaster. Members of your own cabinet are resigning and then deciding you are so useless that there is no point them even fighting the next election so decide to stand down from their seat. Who [...]
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