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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘David Cameron’
The true face of Toryism is now being exposed
Mar 26th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.The reporting this weekend is very revealing. A few months before the election Cameron asserted that “secret corporate lobbying…. (was) the next big scandal waiting to happen”, but he would run a sleaze-free government. We now know he apoointed 3 weeks ago as Tory party fundraiser a man who made nearly a £1bn fortune from […]
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You know what some people call us
Mar 24th, 2012 by David Osler.You know what some people call us,’ Theresa May famously asked the Conservative Party conference four years ago. Many readers will be tempted to supply their own punchline to that point. But the correct answer, according to Ms May, was ‘the nasty party’. The Tories, she insisted were unrepentant, narrowly based, just plain unattractive. Her […]
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The big US-UK divide
Mar 15th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Cameron has enjoyed portraying in Washington that the US and UK are marching in lockstep towards early withdrawal from Afghanistan. But not on what matters even more – policy towards the deficit. There are two ways to deal with a big budget deficit: one is by cutting back expenditure (austerity) and the other is growth […]
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Are we in a household debt crisis?
Feb 16th, 2012 by Carl Packman.During the middle of last year, Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein noted that rather than beating around the bush, he would call “what we’re in [now, in the US] a “household-debt crisis,” or something more elegant that gets the same idea across”. The reason being that household debt to GDP ratio are dangerously high, banks aren’t […]
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Minus 0.2 percent! Cameron can run but he can’t hide
Jan 27th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Cameron’s seeking to explain away yesterday that the national economy was now shrinking by 0.2% in the last quarter of 2011 won’t wash. He blamed high inflation, Labour ‘mismanagement’ and the eurozone problems. High inflation is irrelevant to a contraction of national output which is clearly down to lack of demand because of squeezed incomes. […]
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Lobbyists can still sleep soundly
Jan 22nd, 2012 by Michael Meacher.The Cameron technique becomes clearer by the day: Pick up a problem that is causing public anger, make an instant speech declaring himself fully on-side, and then hit it with a wet flannel. Bankers crash the economy and spark a slump – set up a Commission years later, then endorse its conclusions that are too […]
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The animated debate on Scottish independence
Jan 17th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Scottish independence, as seen from Taiwan. Marvelous. Watch out for the reference to the 700th anniversary of Mel Gibson’s death, and the Irn-bru powered starship. Hat-tip Bella Caledonia.
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David Cameron: the master of cynical propaganda
Jan 16th, 2012 by Owen Jones.When David Cameron tires of this prime minister lark (don’t feel you have to take your time, Dave), he should write a self-help book for aspiring rightwing politicians. It could be titled I Got Away With It – And Here’s How You Can Too. I can think of some of the promo lines: “Are you […]
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Cameron marginalises Britain for no gain at all
Dec 11th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.It is almost surreal that Cameron exercised his veto when (i) there had been no serious or detailed examination of EU financial services regulation at the point when he did so, (ii) financial services regulation was not a central issue on the agenda at all, and (iii) there had been no discussion on the real […]
