Alastair Darling

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• Budget balance

  
  Conor's Commentary — Authority: 419
  Doubtless there will be plenty of grumbles about todays pre-budget report in the days ahead. Some will say that the cuts should be deeper - though a 0.8% increase a year for two years is pretty deep, especially once the welfare budget is considered - while there will be complaints about the national insurance rise. ...
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• Pre-Budget Report: clear political divide between aspiration and class war

  
  News Politics — Authority: 140
  So now we have the shape of the election campaign. Even before his Chancellor stood up, Gordon Brown had made it clear at PMQs: the Conservatives, he said, were “the first party in history to have devised a tax policy just for themselves.” In other words, the Tories were only interested in protecting the ...
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• Go with the cash flow

  
  wineconversation.com — Authority: 500
  Image by Getty Images via Daylife … or “ How I will do my bit for the economy of this country via the wine aisle ” For the last few years, pretty much since I started blogging, I’ve had something to say about the underhand way that the government uses Duty on wine to line their coffers, usually ...
  3 days ago

• The pygmy politics of Labour and the Nats show they prefer scoring points to serving voters

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  It will probably not come as much of a surprise to anyone with half an eye on the doings of our beloved parliament at Holyrood, but with only two weeks to go until Christmas we have descended to the politics of Lilliput, writes Alan Cochrane.
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• Pre-Budget Report: 10 significant chancellors

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  A look at the last hundred years through ten Chancellors who have defined the British economy.
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• Pre-budget report – cartoon

  
  hackcartoonsdiary.com — Authority: 116
  The government’s pre budget report is due on December 9th . It’s not hard to imagine the curry houses of Westminster having a bumper week as Mr Darling and the treasury staffers try to work out what the public sector borrowing requirement is going to be while their spending continues to hold up the national ...
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• Read ‘all’ about it – cartoon

  
  hackcartoonsdiary.com — Authority: 116
  It’s a sad thing about news that you usually only get it in dribs and drabs and rarely all at once. The Chilcott Inquiry into the Invasion of Iraq opens Bank of England reveals undeclared £60Bn loan to part-nationalised financial houses HBOS and RBS Cartoon made for Tribune. Post updated: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Aspirational politics

  
  hackcartoonsdiary.com — Authority: 116
  Promises of jam tomorrow are a fine political tradition and the last Queen’s Speech before the general election of 2010 will honour them today. This set-piece event allows Her Majesty’s government to lay out its planned legislation for the next session of parliament. Despite the usual spin from all ...
  3 weeks ago

• Printing money – an old story

  
  hackcartoonsdiary.com — Authority: 116
  Later today it is quite possible the Bank of England will choose to invent a lot of money again. This is to help supply ‘liquidity’ or, credit to the UK’s national economy. The process is called Quantitative Easing – and you can read the BoE’s explanation of what they are doing here . The amounts of money ...
  5 weeks ago

• Second British bank bailout

  
  hackcartoonsdiary.com — Authority: 116
  The Guardian is running a live blog on the market reaction to the government’ second bank bailout here . Related Posts: The all new Lloyds Banking Group - cartoon RBS and the national piggy bank MPs expenses cartoon - official version Bailing out the bankers cartoon National Care Plans
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• Job losses, bosses and wages

  
  hackcartoonsdiary.com — Authority: 116
  We will continue to lead the world out of recession by sacking thousands of bank staff – and giving some more of their money to the people who are making the redundancies on our behalf. Red-Handed fat cat © Matt Buck Hack Cartoons Tomorrow we will talk about how the parliamentary wage system prevents ...
  5 weeks ago

• Broken Banks and UKFI

  
  hackcartoonsdiary.com — Authority: 116
  The Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Prime Minister are due to announce a second ‘bail-out’ of the part-nationalised banks this week. The Daily Telegraph has the story here . The following quote is lifted from the Telegraph’s story. The Chancellor has agreed to spend about £25 billion buying more ...
  5 weeks ago

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