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Can David Cameron win this election or not?

When, about a year or so ago, I started voicing my concerns about David Cameron’s “conservativeness”, and saying that I thought I’d have to vote UKIP to be true to my beliefs and values (which are essentially small ‘c’ conservative) and especially my Euro-scepticism, my friends (and others) thought I was mad. However, over time, [...]
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A pause in quantitative easing, but the rollercoaster has only just begun..

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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Deemed offensive: Job advert that asked for a reliable person!

I can’t decide whether this is a candidate for the “you couldn’t make it up” department, or the “the bloody country’s gone mad” department. Just when this PC nonsense seems incapable of getting any worse, it does! Our thanks to the Mail and the Express for this one, from the Jobcentre Plus office in Thetford, Norfolk. The [...]
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Cameron’s attack on ’social recession’

All over the papers this morning is David Cameron’s plan to launch an attack on Labour and the part it played in what he calls the ’social recession’. Frankly it’s an open goal that anyone would struggle to miss, but I’m glad he is taking the fight to Labour on this one. Multiculturalism, [...]
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