Alistair Darling

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• Tory surge deflates Labour comeback

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  David Cameron lead revives after pre-budget report At all levels of the Labour party, optimism was in generous supply before the Christmas break. During their rounds of parties up and down Whitehall, cabinet ministers have raised their glasses to renewed hope, while being careful not to get carried away. Rather than ...
  14 hours ago

• Despite recession, Britons continue to shop until their income drops

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Novembers dip in retail sales still leaves the figures higher than last year, but can this carry on into 2010? Napoleon once called Britain a nation of shopkeepers. Two centuries on, Boney would need to amend his insult. Britain is not so much a nation of shopkeepers as a nation of shoppers. Even the biggest fall in ...
  14 hours ago

• Dont panic, Mr Darling! Just keep it steady as she goes

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Despite dire warnings about the state of Britains financial sector, there is no need for a major spring budget I like to think readers were warned over the years about some of the problems the British economy now faces; but, having often been considered too pessimistic in the past, I find myself not quite as ...
  14 hours ago

• Darlings taxing problem

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  Two weeks ago, at the Parliamentary Carol Service at St Margarets in Westminster, David Cameron did one of the readings. It was Luke, Chapter 2, Verses 1-7.
  19 hours ago

• HMRC bank payroll tax guidance

  
  FT Alphaville — Authority: 666
  Right, here it is. The headline-grabbing news (as expected) is that insurance companies, asset managers and stockbrokers will be exempt from the banker bonus tax. That’s right, all non-banker financial types in the UK will escape with their bonuses intact this year. Here’s the embarassing u-turn clarification ...
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• Nailing Brown’s Big Lie : GDP Can Grow During Fiscal Squeezes

  
  Guy Fawkes' blog — Authority: 635
  Time and time again during PMQs Brown claims that the Tories would choke off a recovery by cutting government spending.  This he uses to justify the fiscal nihilism that has seen the PSBR hit a record high of £20.3 billion last month.  Suicidal unfunded spending. The Tories don’t make the case for cuts very ...
  2 days ago

• Business chiefs fund body to look at public sector pensions

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Pressure on final salary schemes grows with the launch of the Public Sector Pensions Commission Business leaders stepped up pressure on public-sector workers to accept cuts in retirement provision today following the launch of a commission to examine the cost of their final-salary pensions. The Public Sector ...
  2 days ago

• HMRC to explain who will be hit by Darlings bonus tax

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  The authorities are poised to bow to pressure from the banks and publish a technical note that clarifies who exactly is caught by the super-tax on bonuses.
  2 days ago

• Bankers plot for voluntary contributions to oust tax on bonuses

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Bankers to suggest raising £2bn to avoid bonus tax • Alistair Darlings £550m target may be an underestimate Some of the most senior bankers in Britain are planning to convince the Treasury to drop the new 50% tax on bonuses by dangling the prospect of a combined contribution to the exchequer of £2bn. The ...
  2 days ago

• Banksters Award Themselves Bonuses — But Taxpayers Can Wait, Says Treasury

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 600
  The Treasury does not regard it as a “priority” to pay back the billions pumped into the banking sector, the Treasury has announced — while the bailed-out banksters continue to pay themselves vast bonuses courtesy of the public purse. According to reports, Sir Nicholas Macpherson, permanent secretary at the ...
  2 days ago

• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
  2 days ago

• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
  3 days ago

• Darling urges banker restraint

  
  FT Alphaville — Authority: 666
  Alistair Darling on Wednesday urged bankers to demonstrate they “live on the same planet as the rest of us” by curbing bonuses. Defending his new 50% bonus supertax, the chancellor said his aim was to change banks’ behaviour rather than raise revenue. He spoke as France outlined its plan to follow Britain’s ...
  3 days ago

• Why some promises are more equal than others

  
  Robert Kyriakides's Weblog — Authority: 127
  It seems that all the United States Banks that received US Government tax dollars have repaid the money or will shortly repay the money in full. These banks needed what proved to be a relatively short term loan to help them get back on their feet an help the American economy on its way to recovery. The United Kingdom ...
  3 days ago

• Darling hiding extent of spending cuts

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  Alistair Darling has been accused of concealing Treasury figures showing how deep Labours planned spending cuts will be and where the axe would fall on public services.
  3 days ago

• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
  3 days ago

• Alistair Darling commits to publishing estimates of spending cuts

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Alistair Darling aims to publish internal figures indicating the range of departmental spending cuts the Treasury expects to make in the next three to four years. The chancellors commitment to publish more internal estimates followed close cross-examination by the Treasury select committee today. His decision may ...
  3 days ago

• Simon Hoggarts sketch: Darling the human sponge springs right back again

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Sofa government is alive and well, in the form of the chancellor, "who bears the imprint of the last person who sat on him", said George Osborne to Alistair Darling yesterday. And he quoted an article by the former home secretary Charles Clarke, who this week tore into the pre-budget report with the enthusiasm of a ...
  4 days ago

• Every pound raised by Darlings supertax will be a measure of its failure

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  It is rare that a Chancellor truly hopes that a new tax measure will fail to raise any significant revenue: but as Alistair Darling made clear last week, that is exactly what he hopes will happen with his 50pc levy on banks bonus pools.
  4 days ago

• Remember, Mr Cameron - it isnt only Labour that has a core vote

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  The party of enterprise is offering nothing to aspirational average earners, argues Simon Heffer
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