I was surprised to learn from Sky News this morning that the latest general election economics debate, if I heard right, will be between George Osborne, Vince Cable and…er…Peter Mandelson. Hang on a minute, do they mean Lord Peter “We’re all fighting to get re-elected” Mandelson, Business Secretary (among many other hats)? He’s not Chancellor [...]
Archive for the ‘Darling’ Category
Where’s Darling?
Posted in conservatives, Darling, debates, economy, Labour, libdems, mandelson, osborne, vince cable on 28/04/2010 | 2 Comments »
Darling-Osborne Debate Limber-Up
Posted in budget, chancellor, conservatives, Darling, debates, economy, general election, Labour, osborne on 29/03/2010 | Leave a Comment »
If Osborne sticks to these home truths, and really nails Darling for his own, rather softer brand of mendacious tribalism, then he really could move the Tory argument and campaign forward tonight. Let’s hope he’s up to it. I think he is – but not everyone does. He’s still got a lot to prove to [...]
Finally, Some Real Perspective On Darling’s Larceny Budget
Posted in Brown, budget, crisis, Darling, debt, economy, general election, Labour, lies, recession on 25/03/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jeff Randall, as usual, has said precisely what needed to be said (ie: the truth) about the implications of Labour’s latest act of political violence against the country we somehow collectively permitted it to ruin once again. Now don’t get me wrong. I’m a grown-up (sort of) so I can take a bunch of socialist [...]
So When’s The Real Budget?
Posted in Brown, budget, cameron, Darling, debt, economy, Labour, recession, spending, tax, tories on 24/03/2010 | 2 Comments »
From what I’ve read so far, ‘trivial tinkering’ is about as generous a term I could think of to describe what is, beyond all question, the most inept and irresponsible response to Britain’s debt crisis that Labour could have managed, desperate as they are not to confront the consequences of Gordon Brown’s economic car crash [...]
Budget Bluster
Posted in 2010, brown. recession, budget, cuts, Darling, debt, deficit, Labour, tax, unemployment on 23/03/2010 | Leave a Comment »
What a load of laughable lightweight rhetoric. “I believe that government can make a difference,” whimpers Darling. Yes, mate. But not this one. Not your bust government. The whole tone of the thing makes me think that he’s decided to vote Tory himself, actually (on the sly), because then, in his confused mind, at least [...]
New UK Petrol Spike Just Getting Started
Posted in Brown, brown. recession, budget, Darling, economy, inflation, Labour, markets, petrol price on 12/03/2010 | 5 Comments »
If any further evidence of the pain being caused by the inexorable slide in the value of the pound, and the subsequent inflation an import-addicted economy is suffering, were needed, the latest reports about rocketing petrol prices provide it. The Independent, for instance, tells us that pump prices have risen by well over a fifth [...]
Randall On Darling
Posted in Brown, crisis, Darling, debt, dt, economy, Labour, randall on 25/02/2010 | 4 Comments »
Jeff Randall has done it again. In his latest piece for the Telegraph, he considers his recent, possibly game-changing interview with Alistair Darling, which produced arguably one of the most memorable quotes of the Brown years. You know, the one about the ‘forces of hell’ being ‘unleashed’ – by, er, the son of the manse [...]
Darling Puts The Boot In
Posted in Brown, brown. recession, coup, Darling, dysfunctionality, economy, Labour, misgovernance, smears on 23/02/2010 | 8 Comments »
This pretty strange report in tomorrow’s Telegraph, about an interview with Alistair Darling in which he claims that “Brown unleashed the forces of hell” on him for predicting the recession, suggests that at the very least, as Iain Dale says, he’s just signed his own “political death warrant”. In an frank interview, the Chancellor said [...]
Billy Bragg Mashed
Posted in banks, billybragg, crisis, dailymash, Darling, debt, deficit, economy, Labour, satire, tax on 20/01/2010 | 3 Comments »
I thought the Daily Mash’s reporting of Billy Bragg’s principled hypocritical tax protest and celebtivist posturing was rather bloody funny. DEFICIT REDUCTION WAS BASED ON SALES OF ‘BETWEEN THE WARS’, ADMITS DARLING 19-01-10 CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling has been forced to scrap his deficit reduction plan, admitting it was based entirely on sales of Billy Bragg’s [...]
Eyes Right
Posted in Brown, cameron, conservatives, Darling, economy, Labour, mandelson, spending on 09/01/2010 | 2 Comments »
Official Government spending for 2008-9. Pdf here. Guido, while analysing the impact of Darling/Mandelson’s outflanking of Brown and neutering of Balls, reaches some very interesting conclusions about the implications for Cameron. “Peter Mandelson’s speech on Wednesday was overshadowed by events, parts of it sounded more right-wing than anything Cameron has said in years…Mandelson sounded positively [...]
