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• And the Parliamentarian of the year goes to...

  
  The Red Rag — Authority: 437
  Harriet Marge Harman was named parliamentarian of the year at the annual Spectator parliamentary awards yesterday announcing "I am never going to run to be Prime Minister." Politician of the year went to Peter Montgomery Mandelburns which shows how the panel value sleaze, slime and manipulation in a politician. ...
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• Claudia Schiffer poses the designer question

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  Not one to be left on the peg Claudia Schiffer seems likely to follow in the footsteps of her fellow supermodels Elle Macpherson Cindy Crawford and Kate Moss and design her own fashion collection.
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• WE CAN’T BANK ON MERVYN KING TO CONTROL THE BANKS

  
  CALEDONIAN COMMENT — Authority: 121
  Bank of England Governor Meryvn King (pictured above) yesterday gave a gloomy forecast, warning that the UK economy had “only just started along the road to recovery”. Presenting the Bank’s quarterly inflation report, he highlighted the long-term damage to the public finances by the record Government borrowing ...
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• Youth unemployment is fast becoming a crisis

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  Telegraph View: Cutting our deficit must be combined with cutting taxes particularly on jobs.
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• Chancellor to deliver preBudget report on December 9

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  The PreBudget Report will be held on Wednesday December 9 - one of the latest dates the Treasurys autumn statement has been held the Government announced on Wednesday.
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• Darlings pre-budget report date set

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  • Crucial pre-budget report to be delivered on 9 December • Darling expected to draw battle lines on public spending The chancellor, Alistair Darling, will deliver his crucial pre-budget report on 9 December, it was announced today. The financial package will draw the battle lines for the general election, with ...
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• UK-based Banks to Start Offering New Loans to Eligible Onshore Wind Farms

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  Three UK-based banks will start offering new loans to eligible onshore wind farms today. Wind farm developers and the banks will have an opportunity to start brokering the deals at a forum in the city hosted by Ed Miliband and Chancellor Alistair Darling. The scheme – supported by HM Treasury and Department of ...
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• TUC backs Tobin tax to pay for bank bailouts

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  • Unions back Brown plan that could raise £30bn a year • PM undeterred by bank chiefs and US opposition The TUC is today throwing its weight behind Gordon Browns plans for a levy on financial institutions , proposing a tax on UK banks to spare the country from tax increases and public spending cuts. With ...
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• Ken Clarke: Labour victory would be better than hung parliament

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Britains problems are now so acute that a Labour victory at the next election would be preferable to a hung parliament in which no one party has the power to take urgent decisions, the veteran Conservative shadow minister, Kenneth Clarke said today. Given the entrenched inability of the political class to make ...
  3 days ago

• Gold update

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 149
  I note that the BBC are now showing two figures for the gold price each day: Forex Gold Index(am fix) and Forex Gold Index(pm fix) $/oz. With the Financial Times reporting yesterday that "Market expectations for inflation in the US and UK have reached their highest levels since late last year..." I can only see an ...
  4 days ago

• Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling Joke.

  
  Daily Referendum — Authority: 121
  I was sent this by a workmate: BROWN, DARLING AND A DOG Gordon Brown called Alastair Darling into his office one day and said, Alastair , I have a great idea!? We are going to go all out to win back Middle England . Good idea PM, how will we go about it? Said Darling. Well said Brown well get ourselves two of those ...
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• Darling is frustrated too

  
  John Rentoul — Authority: 588
  Im not the only one baffled by Gordon Browns support for a transactions tax that is never going to happen. Todays Financial Times reports: The prime minister’s handling of the issue provoked renewed tensions with the Treasury. Alistair Darling, chancellor, is understood to support the main thrust of Mr ...
  5 days ago

• Labour sends in big guns for byelection

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Alistair Darling and Alan Johnson will join Labours candidate, Willie Bain, in the Glasgow North East constituency today, following Gordon Browns visit on Friday Two senior cabinet ministers will visit Glasgow today to help drum up votes for Labour as campaigning in the citys byelection enters its last days. ...
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• New Labour’s Skills Policy: R.I.P.

  
  EcoLogics — Authority: 123
  a badly misguided, if not corrupt policy will be replaced by a return to good ole Thatcherite slash—and—burnism.
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• Alistair Darling backs Browns Tobin tax despite cold shoulder from US

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Chancellor insists Obama administrations refusal to back a day-to-day financial transaction tax does not mean an end to plans Alistair Darling pledged today that the government would step up its fight for a new international tax on banking despite an initially frosty response to the plan from Washington. The ...
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• Sunday Jukebox – Fade Out? I wish they would.

  
  man about the house — Authority: 112
  I had the misfortune of listening to Alistair darling on the radio this morning talking about placing a levy on the banks in order to make ‘them’ pay.  Obviously they won’t pay, we will … again. Anyway, I just wished the interviewer would have faded him out.
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• Daily View 2×2: 8 November 2009

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  Its Sunday. Its 7am. Its time to find out how peanut butter is made. But first, the news. 2 Big Stories Gordon Brown floats idea of tax on financial transactions Prime Minister Gordon Browns idea of a financial transactions tax has received a lukewarm response from G20 countries. The proposal, which took delegates by ...
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• Secret Labour plan to axe spending on youth training

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  • Leak reveals cuts of £350m • Business fury over jobs plan Gordon Brown stands accused today of misleading the public over his much-vaunted plans to help young people through the recession. Leaked documents show the government is planning drastic cuts for its flagship plan to train a new generation of ...
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• The worst policy of New Labour, Ever.

  
  Capitalists@Work — Authority: 470
  Really, I have heard of some daft Government policies, Cones hotlines, Dangerous dogs, 5-a-day, etc. But today takes the biscuit big time. At the G20 Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown started advocating the tobin tax. This is an old left idea for taking a tax on all international finance transfers. Not only do very ...
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• RBS Banksters Cash in Again at Taxpayers’ Expense

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 643
  The banksters at the RBS Group, which controls Natwest, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank, have just cashed in again to the tune of £25.5 billion extra given to them by the Labour regime. The extra cash injection, announced this week by Chancellor Alistair Darling, brings the total amount of taxpayers’ ...
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