Oct
27
“Gordon Brown Promises to Borrow and Spend”
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Headline on thetelegraph.co.uk. I AM HORRIFIED.
Apparently Gordo thinks his plans to increase public borrowing and spending are the only ‘responsible’ thing to do to protect families and businesses from the economic downturn.
Are you actually joking!?!? RESPONSIBLE!?!?! Responsible would be not buggering the economy over the last 10 years. Responsible would perhaps be not allowing our [...]
Oct
16
“Super Sleuth Syed Kamall MEP” Finds a Rather Interesting Article…
Filed Under (Gordon's screwed our) Economy, USA | 1 Comment
Have a look at this.
Its from the New York Times in September 1999 and appears to lend credence to the arguments of a few recent commentators that the Clinton administration should take a fair bit of the blame for the recent crisis. (I personally love BIll Clinton but thats a very different matter.)
Have a look:
Fannie [...]
Oct
14
Brussels part 1
Filed Under (Gordon's screwed our) Economy, Brussels | 1 Comment
I’m staying at Olly’s flat which is very pretty somewhere in the center of Brussels. There’s another intern here called Taggart, he’s American and consequently last night we went to a reception at the EU parliament with the Governor of Nebraska! It was a champagne reception. It was fun. We did a toast to US-EU [...]
Oct
8
Economy. Anger. Rah.
Filed Under (Gordon's screwed our) Economy, Labour Party | 6 Comments
I’ve started to realise that the rare posts that were about anything important outside of CF have become next to nothing and want to address this! I blame it slightly on living in a house with 5 boys at uni and therefore being forced into endless south park and the likes whilst not being able [...]