Alistair Darling under pressure to make huge tax increases
According to the Express today, Alistair Darling has come under intense pressure to impose an eye-watering 70% tax on big earners. It seems that Treasury officials are asking the chancellor to use the...
View ArticleThe UK Chancellor caught between more debt or public sector cuts
Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling and the whole New Labour project have successfully manoeuvred themselves between a very big rock and an extremely hard place. On the one hand The Chancellor must show...
View ArticleLabour ducks the issues
Like something out of an old silent black and white slap-stick movie, Alistair Darling yesterday ducked and the next Chancellor in line will wear the economic punch squarely on the nose. All in the...
View ArticleWho is on the tightrope
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View ArticleTreasury officials believe hike in NI could fuel deficit
It is reported that Gordon Brown vetoed a sharp rise in VAT and insisted that the rise in National Insurance (NI) contributions should take centre stage in the programme of addressing Britain’s huge...
View ArticleA Christmas Carol part one
It was December the 24th 2009, a night when all good men have long downed tools in favour of the open fire and family at the festive season. But with snow falling outside this cold Christmas eve, a...
View ArticleAlistair Darling accused of ‘hiding’ true extent of spending cuts
Alistair Darling has faced criticism from MPs over the true extent of the cuts to the public sector required to curtail public spending. With record debt interest levels expected to hit between £70...
View ArticleDarling prepares for assault on the public sector
The Chancellor has paved the way for a massive change in public sector pay policy. Pointing to some of what he sees as excessive levels of pay in the public sector especially in more senior posts, the...
View ArticleIs Alistair Darling making a play for the top Job?
Alistair Darling has revealed in an interview with Sky that Gordon Brown ‘unleashed the forces of hell on me’. Is this the sort of support that a loyal front bencher gives with an election looming and...
View ArticleThe great Darling, Cable and Osborne head-to-head
On the day that the latest opinion poll sees the Conservatives draw a little further ahead, we had the great wannabe Chancellors debate. ComRes now put the Tories on 37%, Labour on 30% and the LibDems...
View ArticleWell there was no surprise regarding the budget. Tax, tax and a little more tax.
But if you are bailing out banks at a rate of knots its no surprise that you need a sub from the unsuspecting tax payer. It is perhaps most worrying that the government appears intent on taxing the...
View ArticleAlistair Darling, the Kerry Katona of politics
Kerry Katona has presided over a very public financial collapse and fallen foul of media opinion yet she has still made a comeback just like Alistair Darling but without the bikini photos. The Labour...
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