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Whitehall Wastes Our Money Again

Proof of our Government’s profligacy with our money just keeps coming, from the government, itself. Brown and Blair between them pulled the biggest confidence trick ever on the British Public, and it seems a big chunk of the electorate still believes the con. Brown and the Labour party rank highest in the polls on the [...]

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Brown overstates aid for business

More Brown lies. There isn’t a business in the country which doesn’t know about this, first hand GORDON BROWN exaggerated figures on how many businesses the government has helped during the recession. The prime minister has repeatedly claimed that 300,000 firms have taken advantage of an initiative allowing them to stagger tax payments. He cited [...]

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Whats Really Selling On-line

This graphic was posted by those excellent guys at The Next Web but I’m not sure of the source. I am sure it confirms a) what a scary place the Internet is and b) there’s no limit to the gullibility of otherwise intelligent people. These days we all have to view doctors prescriptions with a [...]

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Busting Bully Boy Brown

Interesting to watch the press circling the Labour Party like sharks preparing to pounce. Interesting the way serious journalists won’t let this story die down. Interesting the way those little snippets leak out of the woodwork. Of course the man’s a bloody bully – that can’t be news to anybody. There has to be another [...]

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£450 billion in managed funds salvages Scotland’s reputation for canny banking – Times Online

Fund management in Scotland has, almost unnoticed and in total contrast to the banking failure, boomed in the past year. The country’s three biggest managers have grown to look after nearly £450 billion of other people’s money, four times the size of the wealth annually produced by the entire Scottish economy. The success has been [...]

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The Beginning of the End for City Bankers Hopefully

Mervyn King said yesterday that bankers should take a permanent pay cut to align them with other professionals as he outlined plans to carve up lenders across national boundaries. Speaking to the Treasury Select Committee, the Governor of the Bank of England said the banking sector could be sustainable only if “returns and remuneration for [...]

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Lord Goldsmith Change his mind on Iraq war – led by US lawyers

Tony Blair only got the “green light” to invade Iraq after his Attorney General visited Washington and was told by US lawyers that he was wrong to oppose the war. Lord Goldsmith told the Iraq Inquiry today that he altered his advice a few weeks before the bombing of Baghdad after a series of meetings [...]

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SNP anger at ‘dodgy dossier’ on oil income – Press & Journal

SNP anger at ‘dodgy dossier’ on oil income By Keith Findlay Published: 25/01/2010 The row over income from North Sea oil and gas reignited last night after the Scottish Government claimed tax on the industry was the only thing keeping the UK Treasury afloat. Finance Secretary John Swinney said the vital sector would pump £50billion [...]

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