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Labour MPs Fear Brown is "Losing It" - ExpressWEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2009
Can You Hear this IMF Warning Gordon?
Gordon keeps muttering about how the world needs an economic early warning system. Despite the existence of the IMF, OECD and countless private sector sources of threat warnings already. Do we need another international bureaucracy?
Gordon ignored the last six IMF warnings, so perhaps he will ignore the IMF forecast that Britain will suffer a worse recession than any other advanced economy. The IMF is projecting that the UK is to contract by 2.8%, the worst performance of any major advanced nation for which the IMF publishes data."Several states are already queueing at our doors... At the moment, we have enough money. But if we actually have to help them, the lion’s share of our resources will be consumed in six to eight months..."
The fund might be empty by the time Britain went...
UPDATE : Things must be really bad. Billionaire George Soros took a commercial flight to Davos. No news as to if he went economy...Is Stephen Fry Now a Tory?
In 1996 the whole of luvviedom embraced Tony Blair, 1997 saw the whole Cool Britainniathing sweep up celebrities into the embrace of New Labour. So it is interesting to see that Stephen Fry, the luvvie's luvvie, is giving Tory house journal The Spectator's Annual Lecture."So what?" you might say, he has after all a book to promote, except that is not all to suggest a blue slip is showing.
Yesterday Fry, who is a tech-blogging, Twittering über-geek with a huge82,115 following his prognostications on life and technology, gave his considered support to the Tory policy announced by George Osborne yesterday to adopt a more effective open IT procurement process and shifting towards open source solutions.
Fry said yesterday"Lo, our sheep that was lost is now found'. This is good news. Aside from anything else the money that could be saved in government: schools, hospitals, civil service, defence, by choosing open source and free operating systems and software. It's wave that's rolling over Europe and America and it's only right that we in Britain should ride that wave too. I think politicians from all sides should endorse the aim for public systems to be run on free open source software."
Polish Politician Provides Police Promise
As they say in New Labour circles, "lessons have been learned"...
In future I will refuse to hand over any document to Police until they have showed me a Court Order from a Magistrate instructing me to do so.Maserati Mandy Motors
Lord Mandelson's new found willingness to support the "British" car manufacturers is touching. When he tried to get an £80,000 Italian Maserati mid-life-crisiscar as his official car out of the EU budget he was less supportive. He was in fact angry that penny-pinching bureaucrats blocked his turbo-tax-powered transport.
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Guido suspects the UK won't end up going to the IMF because the national debt is sterling denominated, which is just as well because IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn told Die Zeit this morning;
Daniel Kawczynski, has replied (with a little poking) to Guido's question;Would you be willing to hand over another constituent's letter in similar circumstances?
Daniel Kawczynski MP
It would be a little more credible if the Labour Party last year had listened to the industry when they, in the name of Green taxes, whacked hundreds of pounds extra in tax on all those models that have stayed in the showrooms since. Forgetting that jobs depended on those cars being bought. It is an entirely foreseeable consequence of jacking up taxes that demand has been suppressed over and above the credit crunch problems...
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