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Tenors on a fiver an hour?

February 23, 2009

On Sunday, Jacqui Smith said that a new points based system will be used to “raise the bar” for highly skilled migrants to curb the numbers coming in. The move is part of an immigration crackdown to be unveiled by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith tomorrow to “put British workers first” – and increase the BNP [...]

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The ‘Old Lady’ splashes out on a new wardrobe……..

February 22, 2009

In The Sunday Times today (22nd February 2009) we read of Mr. Brown’s intention to rubber stamp – “as part of a blitz of initiatives designed to save the banking system” measures including “Permission for the Bank of England to begin £100 billion of “quantitative easing” — in effect printing money — to encourage banks [...]

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Coarse fishing for Grayling……

February 22, 2009

The Sunday Mirror  is standing in the icy water of voter disillusionment with Nulabour governance this morning, fiddling with its flies and trying to hook a Grayling. A knee jerk reaction of partisan politics at its worst; ‘they’ve got our ‘Second Home Secrecy’ Jacquie Smith, on the hook, we’ll have a go at theirs’. Back in [...]

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The Banks are lending again!

February 21, 2009

Er, no, not to you…..don’t be daft! The Times on-line is reporting that RBS, which is 68 per cent owned by taxpayers after a £20 billion government bailout, is offering its staff loans against the bonuses that they are owed but which have been deferred until 2010 under a deal with the Government. Remember how [...]

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Whistle a happy tune……

February 19, 2009

It has been a spectacular few weeks for that endangered species, the Whistleblower. First up was Paul Moore, who had patiently bided his time and delivered a broadside under parliamentary privilege to the Commons Treasury Committee, securing not only the scalp of his former boss, Sir James Crosby, but delivering a nasty wound to the [...]

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“The Lying Scotsman” has a leaky undercarriage…..

February 16, 2009

The stampede of heavyweight Scots, puffing and bellowing their way down the Carlisle line to create havoc in London is creating a back lash on the Internet and the main stream  media. Alistair Darling has now been accused of ‘doing a Jacquie’ – a phrase which is fast becoming common currency to describe the act [...]

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Cream-lite for the fat cats.

February 12, 2009

  This week we have all been able to watch as some ‘former’ bank executives have wriggled, squirmed, bleated and whined under aggressive questioning by the Treasury Select Committee; the qualifications, practices, manoeuvres, motives, fine-dining habits and honesty of these still-powerful and still-wealthy men were queried and ridiculed by the daunting panel before them.  Uncomfortable [...]

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