So Farewell Then

So farewell then Alistair “Blink” Darling
“I’m very sorry” – that was your catchphrase
And quite apart from the recession, you had much to be very sorry about.
You introduced tougher, some might say draconian, penalties
For those submitting erroneous tax returns
Or claiming for things that that they shouldn’t have
You seemed to think that your penalty for such a [...]

The Budget

Blimey he’s at it again!
That’s Alistair Darling I’m talking about.
He said yesterday in his speech that the economy would shrink 3.5% this year but somehow bounce back and grow at 1.25% in 2010 and to an astonishing 3.5% in 2011.
How the MP’s on all sides laughed.
Alistair is the very man for your wild predictions you [...]

You’re so wrong Darling

(Thank you to Introducer Today)
No, not over the fact that he has been claiming thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money for his family home in Edinburgh while living rent free at number 11 Downing Street.
And not because while he was claiming this cash he was pocketing the rent from a London flat he owns and [...]

Really Darling?

From yesterday’s Sunday Times:
David Smith and Isabel Oakeshott
The chancellor, Alistair Darling, has admitted that he and his Treasury officials got it wrong over the length and severity of the recession and that he will be forced to tear up his economic predictions.
He will slash his growth forecast in the budget and warn that there [...]

Not Much

To say today except that the VAT reduction prediction turned out to be true. When major retailers are holding pre Christmas sales with reductions of 25% and more, just what will be stimulated at 19p being taken off the price of a CD?
Do you really think it will go down from £8.99 to £8.80?
Do you [...]

I Just Don’t Know Anymore!

The financial stuff is now leaving this humble blogger bemused. I honestly don’t know if yesterday’s measures, to take control of a large section of the banking sector will work or not. Do these guys know what they are doing? or are they like some compulsive gambler having lost his wages and the housekeeping, putting [...]