Polly’s message of hope as she heads for two months holiday in Tuscany…
“Christmas will be hard as many more families see lost jobs. I will be back in January, hoping that Osborne and Cameron will be forced to turn back and go for growth – not in windy words but in deeds.”
Fox Donor Moulton “Felt Mugged“ - BBC
The Greeks Should Say No – Alex Singleton
Democracy to the Euro Crisis – John Redwood
Clegg Wrong Again – Douglas Carswell
Lord Young Never Left – FT
More Dodgy Money for the Occupiers – The Commentator
Pilgrim Hero of the Week - Sun
About Those “Top” Economists – Left Watch
Rosenfeld Buys £8.5m House, in Cash - Mail
Washington’s New Bad Boy – Roy Greenslade
Mandy’s Bent Associate Charged - Guardian
Hamley’s Gender Division – Delilah
Record Snowfall for Climate Justice Day – Watts Up
Cherie Antique Hunting at Auction – Matthew Steeples
Andy Slaughter Congratulates Notorious “Anti-Zionist” – Harry Phibbs
Greeks Get €uro Referendum
The Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has announced that he will put the €uro bailout deal struck last week to the people. There is palpable apoplexy within the EU’s political elite at this democratic outrage. Actually consulting the people in January about what they want…
Papandreou said:
“Citizens are the source of our strength and citizens will be called on to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to the agreement. It is not for others to decide but the Greek people to decide … we have faith in the people. We believe in democratic participation. We are not afraid of it. The people will be asked whether they want to adopt or reject the deal. This vote of confidence will be a foundation stone on which we will build a new structure, a new Greece.”
It seems, unlike our government, the Greek government does not have problem renegotiating the terms of its relationship with the EU in the midst of a crisis if the people will it. The second e-petition to parliament for a referendum has at pixel time 11,731 signatures…
Brussels Blocking British Banker Bashing
On the day the German Finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble declared war on the City of London by announcing the EU will take “a global lead in introducing a financial transaction tax to curb speculative trading”, maybe the left will finally have something to get angry about in regard to the EU’s stranglehold over the UK’s sovereignty…
Emily Nomates, formerly of this parish, has got hold of Treasury documents over at CityAM that show “UK authorities are currently locked in fractious negotiations with Brussels” over the whether the plans set out in the Vickers Review are legal under new EU capital rules. The whole story is here but essentially the Treasury suggest their plans to reform the banking sector are being blocked from above.
Maybe the occupiers should target Brussels for letting the bankers off…
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