howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Looks like we may see a s maller leadership challenge ready later for the big challenge
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Ed Miliband's message to UK: ditch George Osborne or face 'lost decade'
Labour leader to warn that Britain could face same fate as Japan, but it is not too late to change
The Labour leader will say that the UK could endure a repeat of the prolonged Japanese downturn
of the 1990s unless measures are taken to stimulate growth.
Mr Osborne was dealt a further blow by the credit rating agency Fitch, which signalled
it is likely to strip the UK of its AAA credit rating next month.
Speaking in Birmingham, Mr Miliband will admit that his party will not automatically
benefit from the public losing confidence in the Coalition Government and will have to earn
people's trust at a time when many are giving up on politics.
He will argue that a Japan-style "lost decade" is not inevitable because there is an
alternative to Mr Osborne's economic strategy, saying that Labour's task is to convince
people that "it does not have to be this way".
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Armed Forces and police to face further spending cuts, Danny Alexander warns
The Armed Forces and the police will face further spending cuts because the
Coalition will not sanction any more reductions to welfare payments,
senior Treasury minister Danny Alexander has warned.
Danny Alexander told The Telegraph that the Armed Forces and the police will face further spending cuts
In an interview with The Telegraph, Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury,
said that the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office would share the pain of the
£11.5 billion of cuts due in 2015-16.
Mr Alexander also warned ministers in the affected departments that public
protests against cuts would not influence the outcome of forthcoming
Cabinet talks over the reductions.
Earlier this month, Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, said that
further cuts in military spending could not be made without jeopardising the
country's security plans and without requiring more military redundancies.
He called for new reductions in the welfare budget, a position that is also understood
to be shared by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, and Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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oh well more doom and gloom as kieth would say.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I would prefer not to have to say it
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy Guardian.............
George Osborne's Plan C: invest all your hopes in a Canadian
The chancellor is gambling that the Bank's new governor Mark Carney will succeed where he has failed
'An accomplished public performer': Mark Carney at a business lunch in Toronto last year. Photograph: Mark Blinch/Reuters
I'm surprised that it has attracted so little attention. It is not every day that a cabinet minister quits. It is usually treated as very
momentous indeed when a chancellor throws in the towel. I am pretty sure it is unprecedented for a chancellor to announce
that he is giving up his responsibilities in his budget speech. It is certainly unique for a chancellor to hand them over to a citizen
of another country. Yet the resignation of George Osborne has been barely covered by my colleagues in the media.
I suppose this is because, in a strictly technical sense, he remains in post. He has hung on to the job title, he carries on
drawing his cabinet salary, he continues to turn up at the Treasury as if he is still the man in command of our economic
destiny, and his officials and colleagues, and journalists, go along with the pretence that he remains in charge. But if the most
important part of a chancellor's job description is to take responsibility for the future of the economy, he has effectively given up
on it.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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george has a few lucrative directorships coming his way, i doubt if he will even stay as an m.p after 2015.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Well first it was the who will replace the mouse
now its who will relace george
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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bungle kieth bungle.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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The bets are now on as to who will go first
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Courtesy Independent.......
'Union of Ministers' rebel against yet more budget cuts
MoD has been told to find savings of five per cent
Government departments have been told by the Treasury to come up with plans
to slash their budgets by a further 10 per cent in a single year as part of the
Coalition's latest austerity drive.
Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, wrote to all of his cabinet
colleagues setting out the cuts they could be expected to make as part of the
Government's spending review for 2015-16. While the NHS, schools and international
development spending will not be cut, every other department, apart from the Ministry
of Defence, has been told to save the equivalent of 10 per cent of current spending.
The MoD has been told to find savings of five per cent but this will be partially offset
by an agreed one per cent rise in the defence equipment budget for the period.
Treasury sources stressed that the letters were the "start of the negotiating process"
and that the final level of cuts was ultimately likely to be lower.
However, the scale of the desired reductions in departments such as the Home Office,
Local Government and Business will still infuriate ministers.
Home Secretary Theresa May, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and Justice
Secretary Chris Grayling are among a group in the Cabinet dubbed "the National
Union of Ministers" who oppose further cuts in their departments.
They privately warn there is simply "not the fat left to cut" after the 2010 spending
review which saw unprotected departments face average cuts of 20 per cent over
four years.
The reductions are likely to impact more severely on court services and council spending,
as well as the armed forces.
And there is still 70 % of the old cuts still to hit...............
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Quite a big hit coming, and although ossy and the mouse seem to prefer a slower route in the hope of holding it all off until after general election, the cuts are big, coming to you soon,
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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lets hope they are right, any positive news welcome
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Boris Johnson would destroy Labour opinion poll lead if he were leader
Boris Johnson would demolish Labour's opinion poll lead if he replaced David Cameron
as Conservative leader, an opinion poll found today.
With Mr Cameron in charge, the Tories trail by six points, winning 31 per cent backing
compared with 37 per cent for Labour, according to research by YouGov.
However, the figures turned around when people were asked to imagine how they would
vote if the London Mayor was Conservative leader.
Asked to choose between Mr Johnson and Ed Miliband, the two parties were level-pegging
on 37 per cent each.
The findings, for the London Evening Standard, underline the Mayor's ability to reach
out to wavering voters.
They also suggest his bruising encounter on Sunday with the BBC's Eddie Mair,
who called him a "nasty piece of work" could have even boosted his popularity.
When the same question was asked a week ago, the result was a two-point Labour lead, at 38 to 36.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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Maybe a lot of people came to the conclusion that it was Eddie Mair who was the nasty piece of work!
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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All politicians need such scrutiny.....no quarter must be given..........
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Boris would definatly give ed a run for his money
but first the right wing need to rid themselves of the mouse
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Cameron can win back Tory MPs, says John Hayes
David Cameron's leadership has not gone "dangerously wrong" and he
should still be able to win back the full support of Conservative MPs, the
Prime Minister's new parliamentary adviser insisted last night.
Mr Hayes said he was confident that the recent turmoil would not prove
terminal to Mr Cameron's leadership
John Hayes, the former energy minister who was moved to his new position
on Thursday, said his job was to reach out to disaffected backbench Tories
on Mr Cameron's behalf.
In recent months, there has been growing speculation that some Conservative
MPs have begun plotting to replace Mr Cameron amid concerns over his leadership
style and championing of controversial policies such as gay marriage.
It has been alleged that 25 MPs have privately written letters calling for a vote
of no confidence in the Prime Minister - more than half the number required by
Conservative Party rules to trigger such a ballot.
In his first interview since moving to the new role, Mr Hayes, a veteran MP on the Right
wing of the Tory party, said he was confident that the recent turmoil would not prove
terminal to Mr Cameron's leadership.
"I don't think it has gone dangerously wrong but I think what the Prime Minister
has recognised in my appointment is he wants to build the team that allows for that
communication to happen," Mr Hayes said.......nah wishful new broom talk....