Category Archives: Economy

23 senior businessmen slate Darling’s NI rises.

By scrubber | Published: April 1, 2010
The Telegraph has published a letter today from 23 Chief Executives and other similarly-ranked businessmen trashing Alastair Darling’s plans to raise NI next year. The Labour spin machine has gone into overdrive, wheeling out Mandleson, so they must be rattled. Anyone with half a brain can see that penalising employees earning over £20Kpa and their employers [...]
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Nigel Farage on BBC’s Hard Talk

By scrubber | Published: March 30, 2010
Further our earlier post, here’s the full 23 minute programme. Strapline is: “There’s a powerful strain of anti-EU sentiment in Britian – but is it enough to turn the anti-EU UK Independence Party into a credible political force in the looming general election? Stephen Sackur is joined by UKIP’s erstwhile leader – and now their most high [...]
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Tories lose Poll lead after Budget!

By scrubber | Published: March 26, 2010
After what was, at best, a non-budget, albeit hammering Middle England yet again, Labour has finally gone ahead in the Polls. Well, one poll; today’s poll for BBC2’s Daily Politics show by COMRES Naturally, even though this wasn’t a poll of voting intentions in the election, this is being trumpeted all over the left-wing press such [...]
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France rejects ‘Green Taxes’.

By scrubber | Published: March 25, 2010
Once more, France puts our own leaders to shame by putting France first, and adopting a realistic view of the world. Reported in the Daily Mail yesterday, and little publicised as far as I’ve seen, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon told a meeting of MPs in Parliament that the priority for the country was getting [...]
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Prof. Tim Congdon stands for UKIP

By scrubber | Published: March 24, 2010
In what must be seen as a coup for UKIP, Professor Tim Congdon CBE has been adopted as UKIP’s candidate for The Royal Forest of Dean for the forthcoming general election. Most people following politics and/or economics will have heard of Prof. Congdon, but for those who haven’t here’s a synopsis: Awarded the CBE for services to [...]
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David Cameron; 10/10 for presentation skills

By scrubber | Published: March 16, 2010
Along with about 1.7 million viewers, I watched David Cameron interviewed by Sir Trevor MacDonald last Sunday (14 March 2010). Apparently, Gordon Brown’s interview blub-fest with Piers Morgan on the same network last month achieved an audience of 4.2 million. I don’t know if the difference can be accounted for by the car-crash effect, where ghouls [...]
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UK deficit forecast to be worse than Greece’s

By DiamondGeezer | Published: February 18, 2010
As I concluded in my article on the Euro earlier this week, the UK is in no position to feel smug about its own financial situation. Figures released today, as reported in The Sun and The Times show that the UK is now set to record an annual deficit greater than that of Greece. It [...]
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Fancy £100Kpa and a £2m house in Maida Vale? Come on down!

By scrubber | Published: February 16, 2010
Proof, as if proof were ever needed, that the incompetence of this Government knows no bounds. This article in the Daily Mail yesterday is a shocker… “A single mother-of-six is getting more than £80,000 a year from the taxpayer to live in a £2million mansion in an exclusive London suburb. Essma Marjam, 34, is given almost £7,000 [...]
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PIGS might fly without the Euro

By DiamondGeezer | Published: February 15, 2010
I have long maintained that the Euro, as both a political and economic experiment, is doomed to failure. The cultural, economic and political differences between the member nations are such that without massive internal reform and political will, it simply cannot succeed. Indeed, since its inception, it has broken its own rules on membership. [...]
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A pause in quantitative easing, but the rollercoaster has only just begun..

By Jackal | Published: February 5, 2010
It was announced last week that the Bank of England had spent the entire £200bn it had set out for quantitative easing (QE). This QE package was designed as a preventative measure, but also a tool for kick-starting the economy. The UK economy grew by 0.1% in the fourth quarter of 2009 and so the [...]
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