How can Cameron believe that anyone takes seriously his claim that he runs the greenest government ever? If that’s not meant to be a rancid joke, he must be even more out-of-touch than we thought, even after the budget, the No.10 dinner parties, jerry pans and pasties. Bookmarks Hide Sites
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How not to run a railway
Apr 14th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.One of the areas where Labour should be setting out its vision, which everyone is crying out for, and where Labour would attract huge popularity, is by reasserting the role of an activist State in areas where the market has run amok, is out of control, or has massively failed. The railways would be a [...]
Do UKIP put the dash in the Tories’ “Pebbledash people”?
Apr 11th, 2012 by Carl Packman.During the 2001 election, which Tony Blair went on to win securing a second term, pollsters from ICM came up with the phrase “Pebbledash people” as the group the Tories had to woo in order for them to have a fighting chance of winning. They were married couples aged 35 to 50, white-collar workers and [...]
Tax lawyers make monkeys out of the government
Apr 11th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.As John McEnroe famously said at Wimbledon, ‘You cannot be serious?’ How can Osborne pretend he’s serious about saying ‘aggressive tax avoidance’ is ‘morally repugnant’ when a mere 2 weeks after his budget imposing a 15% stamp duty rate on tax avoiders who put expensive property in an offshore company (so that when they sell, [...]
Will Cameron stop corrupt dinners for policy change?
Apr 10th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.After Peter Cruddas, what? Now the brash, up-market barrow boy’s been topped, Tory central office has of course gone very quiet. But since the 23 dinners grace of Cameron/Osborne that we now know about raised several million pounds, it’s unlikely they will cease – just be ever so much more discreet. Bookmarks Hide Sites
Osborne stokes the cancer of British politics
Apr 9th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.After unveiling an anti-tax avoidance deal with the Swiss two weeks ago, the day before the budget, with the self-righteous puff “I regard tax evasion as morally repugnant”, Osborne is now under pressure to backtrack fast. What he did not say is that the tax rate he negotiated with the Swiss authorities that would be [...]
Hiding government’s sins and misdemeanours
Apr 5th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.The nature of the British state and the government’s contempt for personal freedom come to a head with new laws proposed for the Queen’s Speech next month. It was already known that the government intended to bring forward a law to allow the police and MI5/6, without a warrant, to access data from every phone [...]
Tory privilege
Apr 4th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Words that we will never hear again will continue to resonate the caustic hypocrisy of Tory politics. ‘We’re all in it together’, a piece of flagrant brazenness when it was first trailed by Osborne in 2010, has now become a millstone around the Tory neck. Everything they have done in the last two weeks contradicts [...]
Politics at a real turning point
Mar 31st, 2012 by Michael Meacher.The government’s capacity to manage competently has become badly unhinged in the last 10 days. In quick succession the 5p top rate cut combined with the granny tax in the budget, the scandal of secret business dinners at up to £250,000 a head with Cameron and Osborne, the absurd but telling saga about costlier pasties, [...]
The dinner with PM for £250,000 scam gets grubbier
Mar 27th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Cameron dodged the Government statement yesterday which has him at the centre of the scandal, and put up Francis Maude instead to take the flak. But he can’t run away for long. There are several unanswered questions which go to the heart of the money for access scandal, and they all involve Cameron and seriously [...]
