Not did they just run against each other for the Tory leadership in 2005 and disagree on Europe, VAT cuts and their approach to the economic crisis, Cameron’s new found pal, Kenneth ‘big beast’ Clarke, was also responsible for the firing of the current Tory leader in 1993 from his post as special advisor to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Economics’
I don’t like you but I need you: Cameron’s reshuffle revisited
Posted in Economy, Tories, tagged Cameron, Economics, Tories on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A clear choice…
Posted in Economy, Labour, Tories, tagged Economics, Gordon Brown, Labour, Tories on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My friend Liliane has received today this email from Labour HQ,
Dear Liliane
I’m sure you’ve already seen reports about our employment summit on the news today and I wanted to contact you directly about the unprecedented challenges that this summit is helping to address.
Let’s be clear – we are facing the first crisis of the global [...]
The tables have turned
Posted in Economy, Labour, Tories, tagged Cameron, Economics, Gordon Brown, Labour, Tories on November 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just watched Paxman interviewing Tony McNulty and Alan Duncan on the economic crisis and it’s curious how the tables have turned in British politics since 1997. In 1987 and 1992 Labour lost two general election mainly on the electorate not trusting them with the economy. Tax and spending was the Tories’ electoral forte for [...]
Osborne is feeling the heat
Posted in Economy, Tories, tagged Cameron, Economics, Tories on November 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
George Osborne must be cursing the day he chose Corfu as his holiday destination last summer. Everything was great for the shadow chancellor before that, but then he got himself entangled in a very silly but also very damaging political situation.
The Osborne-Deripaska affair became the first nail in the coffin. Boy George thought he could [...]
Iceland: from boom to bust
Posted in Europe, tagged Economics, Europe on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The blog La moqueta verde has a very interesting post on the boom and bust of the Icelandic financial market.
The graph shows the sharp rise and sudden fall of the Icelandic OMX15 index, it’s just brutal.
From happiest nation in the world according to the UN just a year ago to a country shattered accepting a [...]
Osborne’s big big mistake
Posted in Tories, tagged Cameron, Economics, Tories on October 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For many inside the Westminster bubble the fact that there has been no resignation or institutional investigation in the Osborne/Deripaska affair meant the end of the story. Many think Osborne has been shaken and the Tories will actually be better off now that he has learnt a valuable lesson, never to get too cocky.
But those [...]
What’s the point of the economic summit? Anyone?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Economics, McCain, Obama, PSOE, US, Zapatero on October 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The White House today announced the celebration of the economic summit in New York in mid-November. The G-20 countries are meeting up to design a new structure for capitalism. It definitely sounds glamorous, it sounds like a 21st century Bretton Woods.
But there are two key reasons why this economic summit is complete rubbish.
The first reason [...]
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