As Guido mentioned yesterday, the Statutory Instruments Committee meets today to debate the £9.5 billion the government proposes to export to the IMF en route to Greece and probably the ECB. He hears it is a lively debate and that Labour are set possibly to vote against or abstain from supporting the transfer, potentially forcing a full Commons vote tomorrow…
The day Christine Legarde moves in to the IMF.
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Andrew Pierce on Ed Balls…
“Porky Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls sweet-talked guests at a fund-raising dinner by saying if he wasn’t a politician, he would be a chef. That’s not surprising, since he was accused of cooking the Treasury books when he was Gordon Brown’s boot boy.”
is there anyone in the world that Tony hasnt screwed in some way?
the europeans can fuck off
Seems to be the way of British politics. The Party in power is Pro EUSSR and the party in opposition is anti EUSSR.
Which is one reason by the bunch in government get kicked out, whereas if they stood up for Britain they would have a better chance of remaining in government at the next general election.
German court challenge over EU bail-outs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14011339
Good, tho done for the wrong reasons.
And the German contribution is also being challenged.
Good God! Did I hear that right? Labour want to reduce spending. Have they had a collective fall and landed on their heads and gained some sense.
When do I get to vote to pull out of the EU?
The reason Labour votes against it is that this money does not go to bribing immigrants or the workshy to vote for them in the next election.
Actually, it does, but Greek ones, not “British” ones!
When we ruled Britain, people said taxes were too high. We said, “so what?”. People said they wanted tax cuts, we said, “tax cuts take money out of the economy.” Our last act of government was to increase the sums of money Britain p!sses away to the EU.
Now we’re in opposition, we say taxes are too high. We say there should be tax cuts to help the economy. We say Britain p!sses-away too much to the EU.
Vacuous opportunists without any real policies? Us?
just a blank sheet of paper.
Guido
any chance you could ask your sources in No 10 if they will allow a full vote (unwhipped) and the mps can explain why they voted (for/against) to thier voters.
Also lets not fuck about, Labour are not doing this out of respect for taxpayers they are doing it for pure politcal advantge.
So, Come on Dave, Man up and start respecting the taxpayers.
LOL Billy…….So, Come on Dave, Man up and start respecting the taxpayers.
You are so funny Billy
Compared to you, terminal cancer is funny.
On second thoughts, if you had terminal cancer, it would be funny. Very funny indeed.
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The Stories Guido chooses to ignore
1. Moussa Koussa…still enjoying the pool and the cocktails
2. British jobs for German people
3. Tory Shropshire council sack all its staff. You must all be soooo proud
4. Sunshades Cambo Death Curse Strikes again ( does he thinks this is the Sopranos )
5. Tory Lacky Frank Field. “I am a mole and I live in a Tory hole”
6. Billy Vagues Libya silence. Doest use the word “legal” very much these days
7. UK overseas aid budget exploding
In reference to number 2, good point; we should never buy anything from foreigners, even if they build them well and for less money. Instead we should buy them from a Canadian company…..
Are you here to discredit the left?
Opposition treating you well?
Do we need to repeat things 6 times to you?
I’ve been studying Labour Blogs for several weeks now and do you know what??? – Not a single article on how to get Britain moving again from LabourLost – LeftFootForward – LabourUncut or any other.
All they discuss is how bad Red Ed is, How cruel the Government cuts are, how wimmins rights have been affected, How to get back into power, Why the government should not reform schools, the NHS, or any other public service. How Labour are doing in the poles, Who should be their new fundraiser, How their membership is falling, Blah blah blah.
No a single fucking idea or positive word to say about anything or policies designed to create jobs.
What a pile of utter shyte they are, every man jack of em!!
Labourlist was great when Dolly was running it, tho not for the reasons they think.
I did not hear that Labour are doing well in Poland?
Or maybe they have taken up pole dancing – that’s it!
Red Ed believes time is on his side. It may be so against the government, but not his own backstabbing party not used to opposition and lacking in power.
Good – I think that all public expenditure/’investment’/'subscriptions’ over a £billion should be debated on the main floor of the House as a matter of course.
It wouldn’t hurt to demonstrate what opposition there is for the UK having to bail out Eurozone countries, either.
If Labour get on board anti-EU, they’ll dominate parliament in 4 years time
Tell you what. This Tory would vote Labour if they turn anti EU.
If Labour promise us a referendum on EU membership, would it be a real promise, or a crappy worthless lie like their 2005 manifesto promise to hold a referendum on the EU Constitution?
Cast iron promises can be broken on either side of the debating chamber.
Could Liebour swing vehemently Nationalist and become the NaLie Party? I doubt it.
They’ll say anything in order to regain a majority of troughers but would ultimately grab their ankles for the EU.
I look forward to starting in my new role as head of the THX.
Any increase in the IMF subs that is going to be used to bail out Greece is nothing more than a Ponzi Scheme invitation.
Any MP supporting it needs to be impeached for risking taxpayers monies.
As if Lagarde, Trichet, Van Rompuy, Barroso et al give a flying fuck about what national parliaments think…
They’ll vote against the increase shortly before paying up.
I have almost finished reading “Beyond The Crash” by Gordon Brown.
Has all the answers,come back Gordon Brown,we all miss you.
Derby-based train maker Bombardier dumps 1400 workers. Majority of those workers were all union members……You all must be delighted.
Not reliable to do buisness with those union people, always striking.
Yup.
The alternative’s what? Use taxpayers’ money to subsidise a crappy train-maker that can’t make trains that are as good as its competitors? To actually use taxpayers’ money to buy substandard kit?
You want your money wasted? What other crappy companies would you like saving with your money? Debenhams?
errrrrrrr dont quite get the concept do you Top Boy
Use taxpayers’ money to subsidise a crappy train-maker
your alternative
Use taxpayers’ money to subsidise a crappy German train-maker
Union layabouts. They’ve gone and priced themselves out of a job again. How sweet!!!!
“What if a powerful media conglomerate, such as modern day William Randolph Hearst, controlled the media around a major University to influence students and professors to directly advance his financial interests? I have found that person, HM Lord Lieutenant Richard Jewson, who 1) has a direct connection to the British monarchy, 2) is on the board of many multi-national “green” corporations, 3) directly controls a major media market servicing EA University and other British Universities, and 4) as a member of the board of EAU (sic), has significant control over their environmental studies department.”
Google “Technocratic kleptocracy at the University of East Anglia”
Andrew Neil really giving the PCC woman a tough time on the Daily Politics
BBC – Shropshire Council to dismiss all staff in pay dispute
The letter states that all council staff will be dismissed on 30 September and immediately rehired, but only if they agree to a 5.4% pay cut
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My Telford street is full of public sector mongs who need livening up
I’d go further than that, and sack all civil servants and immediately re-hire them, but only if their jobs aren’t non-jobs, only if they’ve never taken more than 3 days’ sick leave in a year and only if they’ve never gone on strike.
And only if they’ll accept a 50percent pay cut and no pension – if they want a pension that’s better than the state one, they’ll have to take out a personal pension like everyone else.
Storming interview on Daily Politics with the odious Peta Buscombe. Brillo has torn her to shreds.
I thought it was a disappointingly weak interview from Brillo. You dont win the argument by talking the woman down.
Daily Politics just said Miliband is more unpopular than when IDS was leader of the Tories! One of Ed’s spin doctors is now being interviewed. John Rentoul also on.
Rentoul says time ran out for Miliband as soon as he became leader.
As Plato once said to me
” Johann my boy , all things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else ”
I took this as the advice of an older man to his eager pupil
He then gave me his full permission to quote him verbatim before suggesting that I look out of his window at the finely muscled youth lounging in the garden of his villa clad only in a loin cloth and sandals, the three of us then retired for a nice soapy bath
Andrew Neal on the Daily Politics has just let the side down badly. I used to respect his interviewing skills but no more. He was blatantly pursuing his own pre-scripted conclusions about press regulation. I don’t watch that programme to find out HIS opinions. I want tp hear what the interviewee says. Poor show Andrew.
Yes how dware that nwasty man criticise our beloved labour in any way shape or form.
Bad show BBC. Bad show!