German Finance Minister Mocks Brown’s "Great Rescue Plan"

December 11th, 2008

German Finance Minister Mocks Brown’s "Great Rescue Plan"

“All this will do is raise Britain’s debt to a level that will take a whole generation to work off” says Peer Steinbrück, the German finance minister. He isn’t a conservative finance minister from Merkel’s CDU, he is a Social Democrat member of the coalition government.

Worth reading the full interview in Newsweek. Devastating.

UPDATE : Ed Balls lying on Sky this morning basically says Peer doesn’t really mean it and is only saying it because of “internal coalition politics”. Which makes absolutely no sense. Total Balls.

The Vicious Circle of Identity Politics – Dizzy
Hague Comes Face to Face With Guido – New Statesman
Hague Refuses Questions – BBC
The Hague Mystery Solved – Mandrake
The Judgement of Mr Hague - John Redwood
NYT Re-open Coulson Wounds – Guardian
Dale Vs. Guido – Evening Standard
Blair’s Contempt For the Left – Spectator
Hancock’s Spy Researcher? – Mail
Labour Leaders Quickfire Questions – Mirror
Prescott and Burnham’s Lies – Andrew Reeves

Previously Seen

When Ron Davies told Blair the Clapham Common incident “could have happened to anyone”. Blair, Campbell and Chief of Staff Jonathon Powell all replied:

“Er, not really, Ron”.

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