Employment Rate falls to 72.1 per cent The employment rate for the three months to February 2010 was 72.1 per cent. The rate was down 0.3 on the quarter and it has not been lower since the three months to October 1996. The number of people in employment fell by 89,000 on the quarter to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘profligacy’
Road to Recovery???
Having just heard Gordon Brown’s speech about his Road to Recovery I have just posted this to the Blue Room: The Labour Government, untroubled by the quality of the surface, has professed to be on the Road to Recovery for thirteen years. Unfortunately the gear was stuck in reverse – and now they are on [...]
Lord Baldrick’s hyprocrisy ?
What a U-turn !! Should not those who live by hypocrisy die by hyprocrisy ? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/gordon-brown/6203488/Gordon-Brown-to-call-for-international-agreement-to-cut-public-spending.html
In the News
Daily Telegraph 14th Sept – excerpt: “Mr Brown has taken public spending to the level reached by Harold Wilson and James Callaghan in 1976 – when the country went bankrupt and needed the IMF to bail it out, they say. One of the authors, Matthew Elliott, founder and chief executive of campaigning group the TaxPayers’ [...]