Tag Archives: Tories

Fiscal Positioning

06May09 – 17:54

Don Paskini wrote this post, over on Liberal Conspiracy suggesting that the Tories economic record for all their endless boasting, actually the Conservatives economic record was pretty appalling. Naturally, I suspect this is a sentiment that many of my comrades would agree with. In the midst of the comments, one of the standard Tory arguments [...]

By Andreas Paterson | Posted in Economy | Also tagged , , | Comments (1)

Financial crisis: Perspective.

24Apr09 – 12:34

Brian Barder offers a response to the main claims about UK government finances.

By Paul Evans | Posted in Economy, Fact-checking | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

Tory Green Policy, It’s Awful

16Apr09 – 22:43

The Conservatives are making some very bold statements about their new Green plans, a more detailed PDF can be found here, the guts of the plans come in the form of ten policies which they call on the government to adopt. They believe that these policies will bring a total of £30 billion in private sector [...]

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Economic Roundup, Friday 10th April 2009

10Apr09 – 13:13

Firstly, infuriating your correspondent is the behavior of the Barclays top brass, having taken a gigantic pay cut, Bob Diamond appears to supplementing his income with an extra £4.7 million as a result of a dividend issued by Barclays Global Investors on the back of the sale of iShares to CVC. Since CVC is getting [...]

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Tories on Local Government

17Feb09 – 09:47

"Local decision making is important provided it's made by Conservative councils" appears to be the long and short of it.

So says Caroline Spelman.

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Carol Thatcher organises cabaret for Tory Black and White Ball

06Feb09 – 17:10

Story.

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File Under “Monumentally Stupid”

03Feb09 – 17:32

The Tories don’t have many good policies for dealing with the recession and what few policies they have seem to vary from the reasonably sensible to the very stupid. Heading up the sensible camp are loan guarantees, entirely sensible although not particularly original (hence the government coming up with something similar). Far more fun is the stupid end of the scale my favourite being the creation of an Office for Budget Responsibility.

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