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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “osborne”

 

• George Osborne: "I think its appropriate that [Fred Goodwin] loses his knighthood"

  
  PlayPolitical.com - Conservative Party — Authority: 417
  
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• Case for tax cuts ‘is stronger’

  
  Business - Innovative Solution — Authority: 129
  1 February 2012 Last updated at 05:54 ET The argument for the chancellor to cut taxes to boost the economy is stronger than it was a year ago, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Its Green Budget said the government could safely cut taxes temporarily, without worrying that the Bank of England would ...
  11 hours ago

• Alistair Darling: the perfect leader of the Labour Party

  
  News Politics — Authority: 128
  Sir Fred is shredded, one of the crudest acts of populism since Saint Patrick chased the snakes out of Ireland, and all the parties are united. George Osborne says that "RBS came to symbolise everything that went wrong in the British economy over the past decade", and so stripping Fred Goodwin of his knighthood was ...
  12 hours ago

• Royal Bank of Scotland Chief Waives Bonus

  
  DealBook — Authority: 133
  Stephen Hester, chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, has decided to turn down his bonus after coming under heavy pressure from British politicians.
  2 days ago

• Stephen Hesters decision leaves David Cameron substantially weakened

  
  News Politics — Authority: 128
  Stephen Hesters late-night decision to forego his bonus gives David Cameron a short-term respite from the bonus row, but leaves him substantially weakened. At first glance, it heads off  the Commons crisis smartly set up by Ed Miliband. It is, in that sense, a stroke of luck and can be seen as another illustration of ...
  2 days ago

• Swinney to challenge Chancellor’s economic strategy in a week long analysis

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 124
  In the coming week, John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth, has set himself the job of demonstrating why Chancellor George Osborne’s austerity approach is harming, not helping, the economy. On Thursday 2nd February, in a major speech on The State of Scotland’s Economy to ...
  2 days ago

• Zero GDP Growth Has Zero To Do With €urozone

  
  Guy Fawkes' blog — Authority: 639
  Last week’s shrinking GDP figures were spun by George Osborne as due to the crisis in the €urozone. The decline in GDP could hardly be blamed on the US market which is picking up and growing at a respectable 2.8% last quarter, nor on Asian markets where China grew at 8.9% and India at 7.8%. Is the decline in UK ...
  3 days ago

• RBS chairman rejects £1.4m bonus

  
  Business - Innovative Solution — Authority: 129
  28 January 2012 Last updated at 07:37 ET The Royal Bank of Scotland chairman, Sir Philip Hampton, has given up a £1.4m shares reward he was due later this year, the BBC has learnt. Sir Philip told the banks remuneration committee it would not be appropriate to receive the 5.17 million shares, says the BBCs Robert ...
  4 days ago

• RBS chairman rejects £1.4m bonus

  
  Business - Innovative Solution — Authority: 129
  28 January 2012 Last updated at 07:37 ET The Royal Bank of Scotland chairman, Sir Philip Hampton, has given up a £1.4m shares reward he was due later this year, the BBC has learnt. Sir Philip told the banks remuneration committee it would not be appropriate to receive the 5.17 million shares, says the BBCs Robert ...
  4 days ago

• Not a Single Billion More

  
  Guy Fawkes' blog — Authority: 639
  George Osborne gave a cast iron promise last October: “Britain will not be putting money into the bailout fund either directly or through the IMF… the IMF exists to support countries, it does not exist to support currencies. The IMF contributing money to the eurozone bailout fund, no; Britain contributing ...
  4 days ago

• George Osborne announces shakeup of City regulation at Davos

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  Speaking at the World Economic Forum, the chancellor announces plans to put the Bank of England in charge of day-to-day policing of the financial sector George Osborne has said that the governments shakeup of City regulation would overhaul a failed system and prevent banks from ever again being as exposed to bad ...
  5 days ago

• Nebraska Football: Defining Expectations Will Define Success for Cornhuskers

  
  cfbdailynews — Authority: 148
  The offseason is a time of preparation—a time when participants take stock of where they have been and where they are going. Athletes use the offseason to get healthy, to get stronger and to hone their skills in preparation for the season ahead. Fans, too, use the offseason to prepare. Recruiting sites and preview ...
  5 days ago

• Ed Balls asks: Why won’t Tories take the blame for economic crisis?

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 164
  http://www.mirror.co.uk/ Ed Balls asks: Why won’t Tories take the blame for economic crisis? Yesterday we found out just how badly David Cameron and George Osborne’s gamble with our economy has backfired. After stalling for more than a year, our economy has now gone into reverse. published ...
  6 days ago

• What about a 45p rate? Downing Street debates an interim tax reduction

  
  News Benedict Brogan — Authority: 89
  Given this mornings "disappointing but expected" (it says here) growth figures, how goes the Mexican stand-off between Lib Dems and Tories over the mansion tax and 50p? Plainly, no progress will be made on the issue this side of the election. The signals from the Treasury are that they have given up hope of dealing ...
  1 week ago

• The economy is shrinking again – what does a double dip recession mean?

  
  News Politics — Authority: 128
  Yesterday we discovered that the national debt has climbed above £1 trillion for the first time. It will almost certainly never fall below that figure ever again – the Office for National Statistics has just published the latest GDP figures, and its not good news. In their first estimate of GDP growth, (admittedly ...
  1 week ago

• Osborne delivers just ONE TENTH of the growth we were promised

  
  Latest Posts at LabourList.org — Authority: 612
  Today’s GDP figures have confirmed that since the 2010 spending review, growth has been a paltry 0.3%, compared to the relatively comfortable 3% that was predicted at the time . That means Osborne has delivered just one-tenth of the growth we were promised 18 months ago. Lets take a look at that in graph form: ...
  1 week ago

• Chancellor Zero

  
  Guy Fawkes' blog — Authority: 639
  Even if the GDP numbers are not entirely unexpected, they are still a failure, a failure to grow the economy. The deficit can only be paid down if the economy grows, we can’t borrow our way out of a debt crisis. It is time for a supply-side revolution, why is the government implementing a policy of selected regional ...
  1 week ago

• Compulsory military redundancies ‘grotesque’ says Defence Committee

  
  PoliticalHook — Authority: 114
    The Defence Committee has called the fact that 40% of planned military redundancies are compulsory as ‘grotesque’ when the MoD’s planned civilian redundancies are entirely voluntary. The committee will publish its report into the MoD’s Annual Report and Accounts 2010–11 today. The target for military ...
  1 week ago

• David Cameron’s socialism by some other name

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 462
  Whither Keynes? For the past six to twelve months, the big philosophical imponderable doing the rounds in British political life has been the extent to which the government should intervene in the market in order to stimulate the national economy. The Conservative/Lib Dem government’s “Plan A” to cut, cut and ...
  1 week ago

• Boris Johnson lined up for safe Tory seat ahead of 2015 general election

  
  Politics: Politics blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 104
  London mayor linked to safe Surrey seat of Reigate, putting him in pole position to succeed David Cameron as Tory leader Life can be ever so tiresome when one becomes a superstar. One tries to focus on the task in hand, even a modest one such as serving as mayor of London, and other people decide to thrust greatness ...
  1 week ago

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