Speaker Should Demand Darling Explain Peston “Confirmation”
Peston is at it again, the cocky hack claims he has “confirmed” matters thus:
“It has been confirmed that the Chancellor Alistair Darling will impose a one-off super-tax on city bonuses when he unveils his Pre-Budget Report today”.
Shouldn’t the Speaker demand of the Chancellor why Peston and not parliament was the first to know of his plans? The PBR is important and may contain market sensitive information. Peston has previous on this, causing mayhem with share prices and arguably creating a false market. Bercow made a big thing of insisting on the primacy of parliament when he was running for office. Prove it today.
Wot! No hat tip?
http://mossjohnblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/will-bercow-act.html
Err, no but there is a link in Seen Elsewhere, Paul Waugh also blogged it this morning before you. It occurred to Guido and no doubt many others over porridge listening to the Today show.
don’t start crying about it for fucks sake john.
*Roffle*
http://alibertariansperspective.blogspot.com/2009/12/facebook-captcha-cant-be-random.html
Fuckin’ socialist scum! I’m only due 500k in the bonus this year and you fabian bastards are happy for the governemtn to take 250k off me, THAT’S TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND!
Well you can use that money to pay the servants I’m going to be sacking. Pointless twats.
Haven’t I met you before Guido?
Would you be worth remembering?
Amateur
I’m looking to turn professional. Any tips Tiger?
If it moves, shag it
It’s all in the follow through
Leave your golf clubs where your other half can’t get hold of them
Don’t get caught in the rough, between holes.
Fuck it, kill it, eat it.
(not necessarily in that order…)
Sally, you are always welcome to join my Parliamentary escort agency, I have to say you look well up for it, and you might as well get paid instead of giving it up for free. Caroline Flint and Kitty Ussher are making good money, and it’s all in cash, so no bother about supertax or any of that shit the little people pay. I should say that you’ll have to be up for anal and watersports (I can’t see that being a problem for you somehow), but none of the Oaten stuff (unless you really want to, assuming the rumours about Mr Speaker’s er, “special needs” are true). Call me.
Great letter in the Daily Telegraph:
SIR – Moments of national celebration, such as the monarch’s coronation or jubilee, are often commemorated in the names of British hotels and inns
With this tradition in mind, I am most impressed by the foresight shown by the owners of the “Brown Leaves Country Hotel”, on the A59, north of Blackburn.
Christopher Wood, York
Nearly spilt the coffee.
http://www.brownleavescountryhotel.co.uk/
Booking Christmas party there
I’m going to stay at the Brown Hung from Lampost Hotel.
That’s yet another screen and keyboard ruined by hot coffee!!!
Fucking BRILLIANT! LMAO!
Tremendous post!
Bloody well done.
Was it on the back nine?
Hey Sally
I am sure “I remember you” (60s hit)
What time does the lying start today?
Doing a midday live chat on the ‘Labour voters spending requirements’ Guido?
Darling must have done something right, The Unison union oppose it.
Bercow is too small to demand anything other than a leg up.
Don’t you mean leg over?
Anyone who changes their politics just to impress a lady doesn’t deserve to be in so much as a local parish council, let alone the HoC.
Damn right.
Parliament is absolutely primary – the press shouldn’t hear about things like this before Parliament. Unless it’s Guido, but that’s different!
They really should do something about Pest.On…
NuLieBore have form in this sort of thing, its the way they conduct business, the leak tests the marketplace and then they can do something else.
Bercow will bluster and whinge like the whipped cur he is, but will do little. Peston will clam up and invoke journalistic freedom if he gets his collar felt.
Nothing will happen.
No-one these days has any morals, values or ethics……they’re all shiites.
Most honest post ever on the net of the world today
Shites shurely?
No, he was right the first time.
Very little can be done. BBC will defend journalistic sources; treasury will want to bury.
If Speaker challenges chancellor to account for what the BBC says Chancellor will defer to BBC.
Only if parliamentary enquiry (select committee?) summons civil servants in the treasury press office to account for contacts with the BBC over this would anything potentially emerge.
And that’s just not going to happen, is it?
it doesn’t matter who heard it first – they should not have! So whether it was Guido, preston etc is irrelevant.
At this stage there is no point in Darling saying anthing.
In fact, they are so sodding useless they may as not turn up at all.
It wasn’t just Peston. Treasury spin doctors have been briefing the press for days prior to the report as they do for every budget/PBR. Leaking the budget is actually supposed to be illegal
Someone should stick that plaster over his fucking arse. Just who is packing his fudge?
“Common Purpose has for years done brilliant work in forging valuable links between the private, public and voluntary sectors. And it has helped to make better citizens of individuals and institutions.”
Robert Peston, BBC Business Editor
http://www.commonpurpose.org.uk/programmes/pitstop.aspx
Well that is one more of the BBC bastards to be strung up!
common purpose federal bastards
Will this do
http://www.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk/news/somerset_news/4783708.Turnip_Prize__hits_rock_bottom_/
Bercow will, in all likelihood, be gone in a few months with his mentor, Brown.
However this is also an ideal opportunity for electioneering for Bercow also. He MAY stamp his feet to impress his constituency and “his” erstwhile parliamentary chums. As I say he may – breath is not being held!
And How is he going to stamp his feet when they are dangling in the air as he sits in that big green chair?
I hadn’t factored that in, sorry…I am contrite.
John Pienaar doing the same now on R5 re scrappage on boilers.
Why bother having to listen to poor old boring Alastair!
Or do they leak it to test out things so that they can adjust them just before the speech is read out?
Labour controlling the BBC? You cynic
Great – can I throw Brown into a great big pot of boiling tar?
>scrappage on boilers
To late to claim for Gwyneth Dunwoody, then.
Too late, I meant to say. Crappy Macbook kbd.
Can we get Garth Crooks to ‘confirm’ that England have qualified for the World Cup too?
Wonderful TV programme – The thick of it. It shows you how things are done!
Bercow doing something about this??? I haven’t laughed so much in ages.
He thinks he is Batman in that cape – what a laugh. He should show us today why he was voted in before he faces the GE.
Wonderful doesn’t even begin to describe The Thick of It. The finest political documentary in ages.
I really look forward to the possibility that Farage will beat him at the next election. I just wish I lived in the constituency.
It’s not too late to move.
I wonder if you can register to vote if you are just living in a caravan or tent in the constituency? Is there a green space nearby where a big top could be erected?
Not been the same since now non-person Chris Langham got air-brushed out. He was brilliant.
He wasn’t bad in Help either with Paul Whitehouse.
Yeah, “In the Thick of It” is brilliant but it needs a paedo in the story for full NuLabour authenticity.
Peston still hasn’t told us how he got so many weekend exclusives on Northern Crock.
The BBC has learnt = Robert has been told to say this by Gordon.
It is time that the Hunt was slapped down.
Like some other XaNuLabour figures Peston was at Balliol College Oxford , was he also taking PPE?
No,acid.
Pesto, Paxo and that overt Marxist Mason toadie. They are all vile scum living high on the BBC hog and giving us ill informed hysterical tat.
Hate em.
Tax their bonsues.
But hang on haven’t they got some interesting off shore tax arrangements as well?
You dont imagine for one moment, I would leave my not inconsiderable fortune in a British bank in Sterling do you? Ha hahahahaha….
It has been confirmed that John Bercow will act on the PBR leak to Robert Peston
That’s right Nick, just before the Chancellor announces his PBR including a bolier scrappage scheme and Bankers super tax, the Speaker will indeed tick him off. By the way I am going to like the PM’s dig at PMQ’s regarding IHT!!
Wish people would tell me things
Piss off. Any good?
Bolier scrappage scheme? Now watch the price of boilers rocket.
I was never cheap, young man.
Sorry Joan, not much point in swapping one old boiler for another.
Why are they getting rid of that old boiler Harriet?
So king of the flippers Bercow to ‘demand’ that other stealing flipper explain himself?
Yeah, that’s gonna happen…
Let’s just console ourselves with the fact that there’s only 175 days maximum left of new labour.
Yep – always worth remembering that Darling, the Chancellor, is a tax cheat who flipped his home to avoid capital gains. They’re all hypocrites.
I’d like to just clarify that I lost the war. It was all my fault and I take fully responsibility.
Eva sends her love.
Adolf x x
I am sure that Peston’s ability to divine what the government is planning was a major factor in causing the run on RBS which ended up with the massive bail out costs.
I suspect that in other countries in Europe there would have been less leakage and a less costly refinancing.
This government manages expectations through leaks, and couldn’t give a stuff for Parliament.
MPs are unable or unwilling to protect the individual from the overweening power of government.
Thanks to this evil government MPs can no longer protect themselves. Witness opposition MPs office being ransacked by plod on the say-so of the government.
Police state.
You have to remember that we need a powerful government to protect us from ourselves.
We are all weak rather dim people and we need someone of Gordon Brown’s intellect and sagacity to lead us in the right direction and spend our money wisely on our behalf. We can not be trusted to make our own decisions – only New Labour have the foresight and wisdom to be able to take us to the uplands and enable us to see how bright the future is that they have in store for us.
Do not despair – we are governed by men of foresight who have our best interests at heart; we should be grateful that they are there for us.
I agree, and can you tell me which cattle truck I should embark upon? thank you kindly.
Couldn’t give a stuff for Parliament? This Labour shower couldn’t give a stuff gor the Country either; they just want the power and the money.
Stop shooting the fucking messenger !!!
He wasn’t the one doing the leaking !!!
And Guido, what is your view on the confidentiality of contacts ???
Can we look forward to you grassing up your sources to help PC Plod with his enquiries ?? Somehow I didn’t think so.
Guido Fawkes – More bullshit than a farmyard.
Nonetheless he chose to publish the leak on the BBC.Or was he ordered to do so? and by whom? A very different scenario to Mr Fawkes’
Your bullshit levels seem pretty high to me.
I thought that Peston announced the BBC has learnt about Northern Crock, RBS, HBoS, Bradford and Bingley, then breathlessly spilt the beans during weekend BBC News broadcasts on Saturday nights.
You miss the point – Peston is (unfortunately for us) employed by our state broadcaster which is funded by public money. Ergo, we are not paying his wages for him to act as a mouthpiece for this so-called government.
Harriet Harman on Sky News: ‘government accepts no responsiblity for the economic conditions at the moment’
…and you are shocked? Why?
And you are surprised by this? The Fuckwit fantasists have admitted they no longer govern,which is what I have been assuming for a number of years.
Well they are the underdogs and also the opposition at the same time, in their own heads!
Can’t the Queen call a state of emergency and boot them out?
Peston is a prize twat.
He thinks that he is some great financial guru rather than what he is – anothered tired financial hack.
And anyone who takes ten seconds to say the word ‘thaaaaaaaaaaaaat’ needs a good slap.
Peston you ain’t an oracle ok.
He sounds like he’s playing space invaders whilst being interviewed whenever I hear him on the radio
He sounds to me like he is an invader from space, bastard spawn of a genetic experiment between a Dalek and Yoda.
Slightly reminiscent of Rugby League’s commentator “oop ‘n oonder” Eddy Wareing.
I have to switch off when Peston is on, his speech is so affected.
Seems to think he is more important that the story.
But that’s normal for the BBC.
Hmmmm exterminate he will.
May the farce be with you.
This time last year I bought my father the book by Robert Peston on the banking crisis.
Before Christmas Day we were with my parents and on the TV comes Robert Peston hummmmming and haaaaaaaing in his irritating way.
My father then says – “turn off the TV,I cannot stand this moron”
I threw the book in the bin and gave him a bottle of 1999 Rioja.
Far more enjoyable I am sure.
I am a bit concerned about this old boiler scrapage scheme.
And me
Tell me again?
worra lorra boilers
This was already part of warm front for those that passed the means testing, Is it new?
And me, especially since hubby’s found a substitute.
Maybe you should replace your tired old boiler with a Geyser
I am able to confirm this.
Can I resign now please Guido??
A document outlining the case for a transaction tax on all trades will be published
Well governments do like to prevent accurate and timely market pricing.
Transaction taxes, not just making you poorer, but the whole economy too!
This should be Cameron’s first question to Brown today and ask for a response from Bercow !!!
I agree m’lud
Agreed, time to put this lot to the sword, no dancing round handbags, straight and forceful, the country needs an effective response to this mad government.
Too Late I’m opening up with this gag
Gordon Brown and I always buy each other silly presents on our birthdays. This year, however, he keeps going on about what a great mate I am because I’ve paid for two hookers to have sex with him tonight.
Can’t wait to see his face when Jeff and Tom from the local rugby team turn up.
Needs to be a point of order.
I think that the order should be Tom first, then Jeff.
no chance this lot will:
a. apologise
b. make things any better
c. realise they are crap
d. have the speaker give them a rollocking
they will behave like a bunch of school children on their first school trip without their parents.
Meanwhile anyone who works hard for a living will go and leave this Country to the welfare claimants and those who make it over from Calais.
Every smirk Ed Balls gives whilst my children are saddled with debt and less prospects and so many people are unemployed will stuff my blood pressure.
Right – I’ve covered the TV in bubble wrap,removed heavy objects from the room,am making a bacon roll and will watch Daily Politics/PMQ’s/Darling statement without trying to commit murder / self mutilation.
See you on the other side.
ITV?
Good luck and God’s speed to you!
C’mon you guys, what else to you expect the state broadcaster to broadcast except what they are told to by their (and our) masters?
The BBC have been spinning all morning and have now reached the heights of ecstasy – the Tories will be hard pressed to win the election now!!!!
There is no fury like a blogger scooped. Peston got you good.
How is this a fucking scoop? The government have been trailing this in the media by implication for quite a while now. Mandleson admitted on the news this morning that he has been talking to the bankers about this for days!
There is no new news here. When the chancellor announces, (announced) this, everyone will say, OK so what’s new?
How the worm has turned……LONDON, April 5, 2004 – The Rt Hon Gordon Brown, MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, today officially opened Lehman Brothers’ new European headquarters building at 25 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, London.
Commenting on the event, the Rt Hon Gordon Brown, MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said: “I would like to pay tribute to the contribution you and your company make to the prosperity of Britain. During its one hundred and fifty year history, Lehman Brothers has always been an innovator, financing new ideas and inventions before many others even began to realise their potential. And it is part of the greatness not just of Lehman Brothers but of the City of London, that as the world economy has opened up, you have succeeded not by sheltering your share of a small protected national market but always by striving for a greater and greater share of the growing global market.”
Peston was responsible for the failure of NR at least in part with his false reporting that led from a liquidity incident becoming a liquidity failure.
No, Peston was only responsible for the timing. Northern Rock was responsible for lending 120% mortgages to people who could not afford to repay them.
Northern rock did not go bust because of that.
They went bust because the money markets siezed up.
The money markets siezed up becuse of Toxic Assets held by almost all banks throughout the world.
Bunkum
So lending 120% of asset value to people who cannot repay has nothing to do with it?
Labour mentality in a nutshell!
Labour borrowing is the same sort of model. Lets pay our debt down by borrowing the money.
Like the man that pays his credit card bill……………………………………….with his credit card!
Private parts is correct. It was not their lending practices that got them into trouble but their funding (i.e. their over reliance on the wholesale money markets).
We must not confuse cause and effect.
I demand Peston be dragged by his testicles to the floor of the House and his bare arse beaten until he names the Treasury leaker.
Peston needs his balls cutting off.
Has he any?
I wouldn’t hold your breath
“its all within the rules”
genghiz the khan is right. Arguably, Peston utterly phuqt Northern Rock. Without him blabbing, it is probable that the Bank of England would have quietly organised a rescue, as has always been the way in the past. That rescue might or might not have meant that Lloyds would have ridden to the rescue, with some Treasury support.
If that had happened, Lloyds would not have been stuffed full of the stinking pile of HBOS ordure, as was subsequently forced upon them by Gordon Brown. Lloyds would have retained its reputation, shareholder value would not have been trashed, Sir Victor Blank would not have had to walk the plank for the manifold errors of the Treasury and the FSA. HBOS would still be a massive problem, but it would have been somebody else’s problem.
No, I’m not a Lloyds shareholder. I think the way that Brown has somehow managed to escape from that smelling of roses is almost worthy of his arch-dissemblimng predecessor in the post.
Truth will out in the end. Might take a few years, though.
At this rate we don’t have a few years.
How were the Lloyds board forced? The truth is they are all in it together and decided it was the easiest way keep the show on the road.
Crap
Lloyds wanted to take Northern Rock. Gubmint vetoed it, as support by gurantees would have been necessary. The consolation ‘prize’ was the poisoned chalice of HBoS, with no time allowed for Lloyds to do even cursory due diligence. They had to take it sight-unseen, and it’s likely that the Bank of England, Treasury and/or FSA knew roughly how bloody awful a state it was in. Result: Lloyds’ decades-long, excellent reputation for solid and prudent banking has been trashed, along with shareholder value.
Er what about Equitable Life ?? Gordon did nothing there as most of the clients would not consider voting for him anyway.
But NR = lots of Liebour votes !!
A lamppost is too good for him. Lets do it the Chinese way and let him pay for the bullet. Although I understand plenty of soldiers are willing to use some of theirs!
The Times reports…
Alistair Darling recovery hopes suffer fresh blow on trade gap
Britain’s goods trade deficit with the rest of the world widened unexpectedly in October to its biggest gap since January, dealing a fresh blow to Alistair Darling who will today attempt to convince voters he can return the British economy to health in the Pre-Budget Report.
The goods trade deficit – which measures the difference between imports and exports – rose from £6.9 billion in September to £7.1 billion in October, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The gap widened despite the fact the value of the pound has fallen against the euro, making British exports cheaper.
it also makes Imports Britain more expensive.
A falling currency is the equivalent of a pay-cut.
That is right, a pay cut.
It is also a wealth cut.
You write that like a wealth cut is a good idea?
If so, you’re deluded.
No it\’s not a good thing it\’s a statement of fact.
The financial sector has blown itself up.
That\’s going to have an effect.
Bankers are going to be taken down several notches.
It was destroyed by regulating too much credit/debit by removing reserve requirements.
OMG I nearly vomited…… Wacky Jaqui Smith on BBC now…… spouting shite !! she is morbidly obese….. methinks !!
The IMF has advised that: “Governments in countries where market confidence in their financial institutions is being hindered by large exposures to structured, securitised assets trapped on balance sheets due to illiquid markets, or by other problem assets (whether US or domestic), should similarly consider putting in place mechanisms for government purchase or funding of problem assets. Authorities should ensure that these mechanisms are consistent with each other in their design and underlying principles, to avoid adding to uncertainty over valuations of assets.”
The banks are bust, they will do as they are told.
I was hoping Peston had had his arse ripped open by an Albanian rent boy and bled to death
Shame but life is never that poetic ! hohum maybe he will choke on hie own ego! here’s hoping ah!.
‘HIS’ soz been on the cheap Tesco cider again!
News you won’t be hearing on AlJaBeebya.
Obama’s 47 Percent Approval Lowest of Any President at This Point
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/08/obamas-percent-approval-lowest-president-point/
Dubbya Bush lowest ratings ever, the most unpopular US President ever and don\’t forget it, neocon clap trapper.
I think that just like the great President Reagan, President GW Bush has been much maligned by the international socialist, islamist & marxist alliance.
They really do not like men of strength & action supporting freedom & self determination.
Collectivist unthinking wankers that they are.
What a swivvel eyed idiot, Dubbya Bush is not only the most unpopular US President in history, he is the most embarassing.
so far…………………….
Yes there is always a chance his brother Jeb will get the Presidency.
I hear Obama is pretty good with a wood and a nine iron.
Fuck off Marster Meatbeater, you knob obsessed little creep.
Bush also is the most stupid US President in history.
……so far.
No, by far
Yes PP, Bush was an utter disgrace and the neocons are evil beyond comprehension and should burn in hell as the most rabidly fascist Government the US had seen.
But that did not stop Brown and Blair sucking up to them for all they were worth to the extent of committing war crimes for their neo-con masters!
You cannot support labour in one comment and criticise Bush in another! They were best buddies! Team mates in the global war on reason and the managers of the economies that launched the world into recession.
Even that useless, lying, N.W.O. whore Obama has distanced himself from Britain’s Labour party.
Brown got out of Iraq, pronto.
Brown is not a neo-con.
Osborne is a flyweight egomaniac.
Cameron is a hairdo.
Brown eats bogies.
Think about Cameron Diaz and hair products.
Then think about David Cameron and hair products.
Is that gel?
“Brown got out of Iraq, pronto.”
We were KICKED out of Iraq, because there was no post invasion plan! Labour launched a needless and probably illegal
“Brown is not a neo-con.”
But he relentlessly sucked up to those that are and paid billions towards their policies!
“Osborne is a flyweight egomaniac.”
Yes he is!
“Cameron is a hairdo.”
That does not even make sense. He has a hairdo, he is as much of a NWO whore as Brown and Obama…
Your point being?
Brown – please do us all a favour and die.
…slowly
…and painfully
And infect the rest of your cabinet with the same slow, painful, but above all FATAL disease.
But not Harriet, until she has visited me in my silken draped boudoir and had her wicked way with me, then taken me on a dodgem ride in her (expenses) shopping trolley, and the whole episode is captured on her (expenses) digital camera.
Net debt as a percentageof GDP will be no higher than other G7 countries.
Labour will still lose the next election, so no change there then.
There is a chance of a hung Parliament but the Conservatives won\’t form the government.
It doesn’t matter. Even if the Tories win they’ll probably have to implement IMFesque policies. Any other election outcome – credit rating downgrade, debt crisis and IMF hard times policies implemented full strength.
No, no, no…. you’re all wrong. It won’t go over 40% of GDP. Gordon Brown told us so. For years. Lucky he didn’t make it a ‘law’ and bind himself or his successors though eh? Eh?
Suck don’t blow.
Kapow!
Row row row your boat.
Right,that’s the economy sorted.
Where am i going for christmas?
An extra £780 billion onto the National Debt over the next four years, according to Darling’s forecasts.
Fucking Hell.
Wasn’t there an American president, when America was hit by a recession, who did nothing and the recession was short lived? All the money being chucked about here and there doesn’t seem to be a lot to show for it.
Osborne took Labour apart – notice how few labour MP’s were in their seats after Darling spoke – bunch of northern c*unts.
Leave out the ‘northern’ and I’d agree.
Northern c*unts
Fair play, they’re not all northern c*unts – some of them are Welsh c*unts
I’m just happy he didn’t include “honourable” before the “MPs” bit.
Can’t watch any of them now. They make me feel physically sick. It is difficult to know who is more vomit inducing – the New Labour apparatchiks or the leftist media scum who support them. I just want to know when these evil shits are finally going to get their comeuppance.
The “Bingo and Boiler” PBS – Vince Cable’s pithy summary is a very apt description of the invitation to bankruptcy the Marxist running dogs have dumped on the nation.
Where are the generals?
On BBC just now – Brillo is tearing Liam Byrne a new @rse’hole
And Byrne had an aide’prompter sitting at the table off camera. No surprise when his standarding instructions to civil servants include ‘don’t tell me what you think i need to know, tell me what i am likely to be asked’.
This is fantastic. So we’re in the deepest economic hole we’ve ever been in, and Darling’s plan is to…. cut bingo tax and raise pensions.
Well that ain’t political then is it?
Fucking arseholes.
Basic state pension will rise by 2.5% in April 2010 – Excellent
Child and disability benefit to rise by 1.5% in 2010 – Nice one
Contributions to public sector pensions to be cut by £1bn a year – Understandable
All public sector pay settlements to be capped at 1% for two years from 2011 – Reasonable
Bingo duty to be cut from 22% to 20% – Good News
£160m investment in low-carbon and renewable projects – Very Good
£200m extra investment for Warm Front insulation scheme, helping 65,000 households – Superb
Boiler scrappage scheme for 125,000 households – Good Idea
Electric cars to be exempt from company car tax for five years – Lovely
New 50p tax on landline phones to pay for superfast broadband – Good investment plan
New 10% tax on income from patents to boost science development – OK
Free school meals to an extra 500,000 low income families – Well Done
Screw the bankers – BRILLIANT
LOVED GIDOENS REPLY.. DIDN’T MENTION BANKERS AT ALL…NUFF SAID !!!
So all the Nice things come before the election and all the pain comes after the election.
You make ruve wrong, then
Reminds me of a woman I spoke to on the phone – sounded as sexy as heaven.
Went to meet her and managed to walk past her when i saw how ugly she was
I think that ‘superfast broadband’ in this definition is 2.5Mb/s. Pretty slow compared to most?
Yes, those things all sound very nice.
Sadly, unless you live in bonkers brown la-la land, someone has to actually pay for these things.
Who’s going to pay for the things you listed, and the £1.4TRILLION of debt that labour will have racked up? That’ll be everyone in the country who has a job or who creates jobs.
These things are not free. The government does *NOT* have any money of its own, every penny of this (and the interest on the insane debt) has to end up coming out of the pockets of everyone who is involved in the private sector.
You simply can not spend more money than you earn for more than a certain length of time without going bankrupt. Labour deny the most basic economic/housekeeping/accounting rules and they live in a parallel universe which has totally different laws of physics/logic/economics/maths to the real world.
***THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOVERNMENT MONEY – ALL THIS MONEY IS PRIVATE SECTOR MONEY ***
***WE ARE SPENDING MORE THAN WE CAN EVER AFFORD TO PAY BACK AND IT NEEDS TO STOP NOW***
Hmmmmmm…..
Electric cars projected to be somewhere around 7% of all vehicles by…..2020. Proportion in Corporate ownership ? No-one knows. Sod-all going to happen there.
Landline tax ? Who benefits from the “superfast broadband” ? Let me keep my money, and I’ll upgrade my line if I need/want to. I’m not funding some other toe-rag’s internet access.
10% tax on “income from patents”. Meaning what ? If you patent something in the UK and it then earns you “income” then you’re going to get a tithe on it ? How the hell is this going to be administered from a practical perspective ? Cue a rush away from the UK patent office….
Cut contributions to public sector pensions by £1Bn a year ? Timebomb. As of 2008, there was a £915bn “black hole” in the Public sector liability (CBI, projected forward from last Gov. issued figure in 2006)
“Screw the Bankers” : Loophole. Define “Banker”.
We’re all bankers now.
Electric cars are pure crap. If we have any significant numbers of them we will have even more widespread power cuts; they take a charge of 36 KwH daily.
In winter, when you turn on the heater and the demister, you can go about ten miles. Without subsidies they are economic nonsense. With subsidies they are a piece of magnificent political stupidity.
An energy audit including development and manufacture puts them on a par with a 6 litre V8.
Won’t even need bankers when we are all broke and eating grass in the dark.
NUFF SAID! Pillock.
““fvdfzsrsazxzzxcvbnmadgfhjjkqwrtyuuuiop” – was written not by her three-year-old son, Fraser, but very deliberately by her, so that the Prime Minister could include the anecdote in a speech this week
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/willheaven/100019376/twittergate-was-sarah-browns-gibberish-tweet-faked/
And you trust that woman?
You would have trusted Eva Braun too?
Plus the Tweet was sent out at 4.04am
“fvdfzsrsazxzzxcvbnmadgfhjjkqwrtyuuuiop”
This is clearly a coded cry for help from a very desperate Sarah.
Notice the word “mad” is placed at the centre of the message.
That would score 375 points in Scrabble along the top.
Hey Gudio..your RSS feed is not updating!!
I couldn’t really give a flying fuck about trying to scrounge a few quid of bankers, it won’t make any difference overall to the economic situation, it’s just part of the labour policy to try and shore-up their core vote before the election and it’s what you’d expect from them.
I’m more concerned about the £1.4trillion of debt that Darling’s mentioned we’re going to have (and that assumes ridiculously high growth rates) and the fact that they’re still talking about growth in the public sector throughout (no real cuts from what I can see, maybe i’ve misunderstood but essentially he’s just spinning a growth reduction and pretending it’s cuts, but there are no actual cuts).
Increase public spending while you have a deficit running into trillions, and trying to pay for a small proportion of that by taxing anything that moves at ridiculous levels.
Angry doesn’t even begin to describe how I feel about their “I don’t give a fuck” attitude on bankrupting the entire economy.
They have lost the plot!
I think we will have to set up a advertising for hitmen website with a paypal donation account we can all chip in to pay for one who will do Brown in.
I would love to see Brown driven mad live on TV and break down sobbing – he is SO close to insanity.
Did you hear him today – His Majesty’s Constabulary – The Queen has been on the throne since 1953 – what cogs are driving that shitty brain of Browns to be able to come out with that.
A PM who cannot read,cannot write,cannot spell,cannot string sentences together.
Like so much Labour have done to the country – bollocks.
Make sure you don’t pay until after the job is done.
Others have been caught out by these scoundrels.
http://www.indonesiamatters.com/1197/hitman-for-hire/
There are about 25 million households in the UK
If 125,000 old, energy inefficient “clunker” boilers are to be replaced that is one lucky household in 200
Will there be a lottery for that?
labour voters
The scheme only applies to band G SEDBUK boilers.
There may not even be 125,000 in the country.
Nobody will know what a G Sedbuck boiler is, and no one will tell us.
Mine’s a Potterton.
Mines a pint of bitter thank you.
BT were unable to provide me with broadband, fast or slow, so we have Virgin media fast broadband (20 megs). Why should I have to pay an extra 50p on my landline?
Because it’s the right to do, innit
It’s not 50p, it’s £6.
Darling only mentioned the monthly cost, not the annual total tax.
It’s got nothing to do with funding fast broadband, it’s purely to try and get more money into the treasury to help hide the £1.4trillion debt for as long as possible before people find out.
or, “Ringfencing a black hole” as osborne, quite rightly, put it.
Its called a tax.
“Everyone” has a phone.
Watch it go up with each budget.
Have virgin cable, just cancelled the phoneline. No prob.
Cable hasn’t been a virgin for a long time.
Nick Robinson Likes Darling. The Labour party can now go to the election saying “We are serious!”
It took Nick some time to put a positive spin on this for Labour but he got there in the end…
Nick yes they are serious ! seriously f**cked!.
The Speaker will not say a word otherwise his Misses will box his ears good and proper when he gets home – she will have had a few by then I guess – drinks I mean.
She’s had 4 by the time I left her. There were 6 more in the line waiting outside. I don’t know about the drinks though.
Gordon has gone fucking apeshit it’s like the ending of king kong all over again.
I notice that the BBC’s budget bullet points doesn’t have any mention whatsoever of the structural deficit, they’re just following the same labour lies about halving the [non-structural] deficit in 4 years.
Well, what’s £1.4trillion these days, eh? peanuts.
Darling continually talks about “reducing the deficit” – he doesn’t mean it, what he means instead is that he’ll reduce the amount that the deficit increases by compared to what he’d already pencilled-in.
It’s like buying a bentley on your credit card when you have no money, and then next year you buy a mercedes on your credit card instead of another bentley, but still don’t pay any of the credit card bill debt, then saying “look, the merc cost 50grand less than the bentley; I’ve just saved 50grand”
It’s complete insanity.
The worst part of it all is that the media’s letting darling get away with it.
Complete and utter madness.
I hope they fry in hell for burning all our fucking money.
I thought bonuses at this level were taxed at 40% anyway