Monday, 9 March 2009

 

Monday 9th March 2009Britain's leading conservative blog
Today's other newslinks

Tories could return banking regulation to Bank of England - Independent

"The Financial Services Authority should be overhauled and might even be replaced, according to a review commissioned by the Conservative party. In the review of financial services regulation, Sir James Sassoon, who was Alistair Darling’s City envoy, calls for “fundamental reform” of the tripartite – Treasury, FSA and Bank of England – regulatory structure set up by Gordon Brown, the prime minister." - FT

Tory inheritance tax pledge becomes cheaper because of recession

"A drop in personal wealth over the past nine months, due mainly to falling property prices, means the Tory pledge to exempt all but millionaires from inheritance tax is now forecast to cost £1.3bn for 2011-12, according to Treasury figures." - FT

X-factor internet party is launched

Juryteam_3"A former Tory tycoon yesterday launched an X-Factor-style political party which he claimed would restore the public's faith in Parliament." - Daily Mail

> Jonathan Isaby on CentreRight yesterday: Sir Paul Judge's "Jury Team" is hardly Sir James Goldsmith's Referendum Party

EU membership costs each Briton £2,000 a year, Taxpayers' Alliance claims - Telegraph

Obituary for Andrew Rowe: Europhile Tory MP who served as aide to Edward Heath - Independent

Trevor Kavanagh: Some things Brown should apologise for

"Is he sorry for opening the door to millions of unchecked migrants now in cut-throat competition for British jobs? Is he sorry for selling off our gold at rock-bottom prices and wrecking private pension savings while bloating the public sector’s. Will he apologise for refusing to build nuclear power stations? Or new prisons to hold those dangerous criminals now roaming free? Does he regret the failure of schools to educate our youngsters properly for the tough times ahead? No. After 12 years in charge, he can’t say sorry." - Trevor Kavanagh in The Sun

Nick Clegg attacks Tory plans to cut public spending [NOT official policy] as "economic madness" - BBC

Picture_13_033335And The Independent analyses the LibDem leader's new haircut: "When Nick Clegg appeared on stage yesterday, party delegates were taken aback by a change in look for the leader. Mr Clegg took to the platform in Harrogate without the foppish, Cameronesque, side-parting that he has sported for his entire political career. In its place, he was sporting a somewhat macho buzz-cut more akin to the US Army recruit than the Liberal Democrats. Aides denied the new look was an attempt to fend off suggestions that Mr Clegg, 42, is seen as too young in the eyes of some voters and needed to toughen his image. "We didn't take any polling on it; it was just something he did before conference because he had some spare time as a result of his paternity leave," said one aide. "He used the same hairdresser and everything."

Czech leader, Klaus, joins meeting of climate change deniers - Guardian

Regulation not greed has pushed banks to the edge of ruin - Eamonn Butler in The Times

Stimulus = protectionism

"The US government’s relation to its carmakers is beginning to look like the UK’s to British Leyland in the 1970s – it can have a government-nourished auto industry or none at all. In the absence of global co-ordination – which, to be fair, Mr Brown has consistently urged – “stimulus” and “protection” are two names for the same thing." - Christopher Caldwell in the FT

Posted by Britannia Radio at 12:23