A serious Labour politician The sound of son of a butcher and former schoolteacher Paul “Lord” Myners on the Today programme this morning was all the reminding I needed of how utterly delusional members of the previous government remain, particularly in the area of their economic (mis)management. He seemed to be saying that what the [...]
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Brown’s Cronies Still Delusional
Posted in banking, Brown, brown. recession, cameron, crash, economy, football, G20, myners, UK on 28/06/2010 | Leave a Comment »
BP Is Finished – It’s Only A Matter Of Time
Posted in BP, economy, environment, UK, US on 18/06/2010 | 6 Comments »
Hayward: Bleak Prospects It’s getting pretty clear now that the United States government will settle for nothing less than the destruction of BP as punishment for the environmental and economic impact of the disastrous Gulf oil spill. This is the conclusion that a lot of people have now if not reached, then are certainly nearing. [...]
Inflation Storm Clouds
Posted in economy, inflation on 04/06/2010 | Leave a Comment »
That senior economists are even talking about inflation now, having pretended it didn’t exist for so long, should be a source of anxiety. That one of them should say something like this should be the prelude to panic. In an opinion piece for on Friday, Mr Bean writes: “Some people have suggested that a bit [...]
Danny Alexander’s Challenge
Posted in debt, economy, humour, satire on 29/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is the global lending merry go-round as explained for the general public by two leading Australian economists, wisely employing a variation of the Socratic method. There is an answer to all this, you know, and it’s called ‘cuts’. I wonder if young Danny Alexander is up to the challenge. Ha! Fat chance. Remember John [...]
Letters From A Tory, RIP
Posted in cameron, economy, government, policy on 16/05/2010 | 2 Comments »
A few days ago, discreet – and now defunct – blogger “Letters from A. Tory” posted what I think is one his finest bits of commentary, among many fine bits of commentary from that individual over the years. We’d come to expect it, value it, even. It’s worth noting, at least on my diary of [...]
Meanwhile, In Other News…
Posted in crisis, debt, economy, europe on 06/05/2010 | 4 Comments »
Dow crashes 1000 points in 15 minutes on Greek/EU debt crisis. Wall Street thought it was a computer malfunction. It wasn’t. Um… Source: CNBC
Where’s Darling?
Posted in conservatives, Darling, debates, economy, Labour, libdems, mandelson, osborne, vince cable on 28/04/2010 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Winning The Argument
Posted in Brown, conservatives, crisis, debt, economy, general election, Labour, polls on 27/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
It should not be seen as much of a coincidence that on the day Greek debt is downgraded to junk, a poll comes out that lends weight to the view that the Tories are winning the key argument in this general election campaign, the economic argument. The only game in town is Europe at the [...]
The Cable Guy
Posted in andrew neil, economy, general election, vince cable on 21/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
What a day. Not one minute to myself. Every second of it belonged to The Man. However, I’m plodding on regardless, inspired by that tireless campaigner for truth, justice, and the Cameron way, Ollie Cromwell, who’s blogged the video of a superstar slapdown by Andrew Neil of the Cable guy, as edited by Guy News. [...]
Ramsay McBrown Addresses the Nation
Posted in Brown, campaining, economy, general election, Labour, recession on 16/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
I know Labour are broke and that they have a nasty habit of recycling old policies and passing them off as new ideas, but don’t you think they’ve gone a bit too far with this latest election broadcast. I mean, whatever next? First, Ramsay McBrown addresses the nation about the grave economic crisis: And on [...]
