Politicians

Bankers, bonuses, bandwagons, the crisis of capital and the failure of government

February 5, 2012
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Stripping Fred the Shred of his honour and vilifying Stephen Hester shows politicians at their most irrelevant. An effective banking system is essential for a healthy economy. The free movement of capital in has funded the projects and industries which over the last 200 years have, with some obvious calamities along the way, driven the [...]

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Do As I Say

April 12, 2011
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Previously I highlighted the case of a politician actually being quite normal and in effect saying do I as do, not as say. However we now have the case of a politician saying do as I say, not as I do. Even better, this is an MP who vigorously campaigned for the law by which [...]

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Do As I Do

April 11, 2011
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One politician has just turned into a human being. Norman Baker has shown that he is normal. Everyone knows that whenever a politician spouts some diktat it is always on the basis of “do as I say not as I do”. That’s why politicians always make up laws and rules which the ordinary person has [...]

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Exit to Eden

March 16, 2011
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When it comes to The Deficit, I am a curious bird perhaps unknown to Mother Nature, a pragmatic hawk. I think serious cut backs had to be made or we would, later or more probably sooner, have developed our very own version of Fantasy Ireland (see what I did there?) with more savage cuts imposed [...]

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A Flood of Political Proportions.

March 2, 2010

Less than 100 miles away from us, in the early hours of Sunday morning, a cyclonic storm combined with a spring tide and 100 mile an hour winds,  brought waves 25 foot high crashing through the homes that line the Atlantic coast. 50 people died, the majority drowned in their own beds as they slept. [...]

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A De-Regulated Parallel Universe.

February 27, 2010

We regulate the sale of houses quite tightly, in fact we regulate the sale, the advertising, the reliability,  of most items tightly. Just imagine for a moment that there was no such thing as rented property. Imagine that you had no choice other than to buy a house to keep your family warm and dry. [...]

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That’s the way to do it…….

July 24, 2009

Get all of them in one fell swoop….. US law enforcement agents arrested dozens of politicians and rabbis yesterday in an anti-corruption sweep alleging money laundering, extortion, bribery and even trafficking in human organs. The stunning New Jersey swoop netted 44 people across a state long seen as one of the most corrupt and crime-ridden [...]

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