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• TUC backs Tobin tax to pay for bank bailouts

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • 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: 982
  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 ...
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• Gold update

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 148
  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 ...
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• Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling Joke.

  
  Daily Referendum — Authority: 123
  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: 575
  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 ...
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• Labour sends in big guns for byelection

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  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: 121
  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: 982
  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: 114
  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: 982
  • 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: 471
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• RBS Banksters Cash in Again at Taxpayers’ Expense

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 650
  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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• UK Chancellor Calls For Continued Spending

  
  Forex Bull — Authority: 153
  Chancellor Alistair Darling called upon his counterparts in the G20 to “see though measures to support demand and repair the financial system” though continued stimulus spending.
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• Personal Insolvencies in UK Up 28%

  
  Forex Bull — Authority: 153
  The number of UK residents forced to insolvency in the third quarter of the year rose 28 percent year over year to 35,242 personal insolvencies. Part of the increase can be attributed to the introduction earlier in the year of Debt Relief Orders, a cheaper form of bankruptcy intended for people with lower incomes.
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• Ageing Guardian

  
  David Jones, MP — Authority: 429
  The Guardian’s Steve Bell has a very strange cartoon in today’s edition.  It depicts Mervyn King and Alistair Darling shaking bottles of Pepsi-cola over a grave marked “The British Economy RIP”.   Darling is saying: “Where am I? What are we doing?”, while King is singing “Come Alive! Come ...
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• Bank of England: The treatment isnt working

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 154
  For months, the UK economy has been in intensive care, with government ministers and central bankers trying every measure in the textbook – and a few that are not. Yet – as the grim economic statistics show – nothing has got the patient off life support, let alone out of the sickbed. Not the governments ...
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• Letters: Striking support for Leeds council workers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  In response to Councillor Richard Brett ( Letters , 4 November), refuse collectors in Leeds did not resort to strike action lightly, but because they saw their income and livelihood threatened. Despite eight weeks of the strike, with the mess piling up on our streets and bins overflowing, the refuse workers have the ...
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• GREEDY BANKS RIP US OFF TO FEED THEIR BALANCE SHEETS

  
  CALEDONIAN COMMENT — Authority: 121
  The Bank of England (above) rate-setting Monetary Policy Committe (MPC) voted yesterday to pump an extra £25 billion directly into the UK economy through its scheme of Quantitative Easing (QE) in a bid to end the longest British recession since records began. The extra funds will take the amount of newly printed ...
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• Bank of England extends quantitative easing to £200bn

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The Bank will expand its programme of money creation by £25bn over the next three months to boost Britains recession-hit economy Steve Bell
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