Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts

Sunday, 19 December 2010

A Christmas Cameron



A seasonal one to end the year. Scrooge Cameron is haunted by the ghosts of Jacob Brown, Christmas Boom and Christmas Bust, while Christmas Yet To Be hovvers menacingly over the crippled form of Tiny Economy. The sad reality is Scrooge saw the error of his ways, Cameron never will.

Sunday, 16 November 2008

The War on Tax Havens




http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/04/obama-tax-haven-crackdown

Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown target offshore tax havens, but Obama perhaps sees the UK as a tax haven too, considering the amoral levels of tax the mega-rich are allowed to avoud in the UK.

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Sunday, 22 June 2008

Everything Up But Wages


Fuel prices for the roof, utility prices the same and interest rates set to rise again and the government wants everyone to accept wage settlements, which will effect mean a drop in their standard of living. Everyone except the people who landed us in this mess in the first place, who are still awarding themselves huge bonuses. And while all this goes on, more and more people's homes are at risk of negative equity and repossession.