Category Archives: Gordon Brown

Fire Sale!

Ok, quiz time… What is the missing word, and when was the following written? “The ****** government in Britain is imposing budget cuts in the Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) that will result in hundreds of job losses and compromise public safety. The Audit Commission, the unelected body used by the central government to impose market-based discipline [...]
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So, that’ll be a no then…

In the unlikely event that any of you thought our dear old friend Jonah Snot-Gobbler was the only politician capable of totally obfuscating a non-answer to a simple question, here is proof positive that he wasn’t. Rejoice in watching Dave “cast-iron” Cameron totally failing to answer the somewhat important question (from Bill Cash MP) of [...]
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Rumpy-Pumpy: hypocrite? Moi?

Second hat-tip of the day to Daniel Hannan. This time, for a great article, containing two excellent film clips. The first of the excellent Nigel Farage roasting Rumpy again, and the second of a Belgian MEP, Derk-Jan Eppink – of whom I have been in blissful ignorance, to be fair – who really does a [...]
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Richard Littlejohn’s Economics ABC

Richard Littlejohn is always good for a laugh, and has a knack of being able to offend or upset people from all sectors of the political spectrum; it’s what he does. Today’s entry in the Daily Mail is a classic, and should be compulsory reading for all of us, especially Alan Johnson. I’ve noticed a concerted [...]
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Get me the Priority Boarding.

We’ve all seen the sub-titled Hitler rants, and very amusing they are too. This one, courtesy of a subscriber (thanks PW) is by far the funniest I’ve seen, even better than the Gordon Brown ones here and here. Enjoy: Wikio Wikio
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Totally barking…

Ok, quiz for the day. Who wrote the following in their recently-published book? “I am neither a finance expert nor a trained economist but fear of making technical mistakes (of which, I am sure, this book is full) should not silence us altogether when the task before us is so urgent.” Got it yet? Here’s a clue: [...]
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The economic consequences of Mr. Brown

My thanks to our blogging colleague Old Holborn for bringing our attention to the following youtube clip of a speech by Professor Stein Ringen, and thence, by extension, the rather longer version below it. The subject is a book by Professor Ringen called “The Economic Consequences of Mr Brown”: quite a subject… The good Professor is [...]
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Gordon Brown’s new job.

He didn’t hang about finding his true role in life… Wikio Wikio
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Voting at 16? Good idea, bad idea or Trojan Horse?

Both Labour and the Lib Dems have said that they favour lowering the voting age to 16. Why would they do that, I wonder, and is it a good idea? My father used to say to me: “There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure”, but it was [...]
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Why shouldn’t Britain go the same way as Greece? (and other musings)

Prevalent in the news today have been the riots in Greece. The country is now sufficiently unattractive to investors and ratings agencies that their bond markets have frozen, and due to this and their enormous deficit they are no longer able to service their debts. Greek workers’ unions hold enormous sway, and thanks [...]
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