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'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free'
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- Axel Leijonhufvud
- E.E.Evans-Pritchard
- Edmund Leach
- Francois Couperin
- Joan Robinson
- John Maynard Keynes
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- Noam Chomsky
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2008
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October
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- The New Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Would You Rather...
- Losing the Brightest and the Best
- London Paris (Rome?) Berlin
- The Lisbon Treaty Could Be Irrelevant
- Russia Redux
- Global Crisis Fatigue
- Dripping Poison
- Andarsene all'Inglese
- Whistles
- Another Day Another Lie
- And It's One, Two, Three, What Are We Fighting For?
- Sarah Brown and Her Party's Threatening Behaviour
- Lord Mandelson's Amour Propre
- It's Not Maynard Keynes , It's Michael Kalecki
- Cancel the Debt
- Slouching Along
- The War that Dare not Speak its Name
- Government by Consent
- Running Silently
- Borrowed Time
- Foggy Bottom
- Hatfield and the North
- Dekker's Advice for Sound Sleep
- Honour and Shame
- What Is Being Taken
- New Labour is Foul Not Fair
- Hyperinflation or Default
- Partial, Incoherent and Irrelevant
- New Labour No Money
- What It Takes is Capitalism
- Attacking a NATO Ally
- You Don't Live There Any More
- There Goes the Council Tax You've Paid
- Reductio Ad Absurdum
- Don't Look Now
- Continent Isolated
- Souls for Sale
- Failing to Co-operate Denies Democratic Government
- Georgia On My Mind
- Quiz. Where Do You Stand On the Political Spectrum?
- Child Abuse Is Not An Error of Professional Judgement
- He Strikes Again
- The Train Now Standing...
- Watching and Waiting
- Sir Richard Mottram's Verdict Applies
- If Brown Wants to Rule Scotland He Should Go Home ...
- Establishing a Politburo
- Age Cannot Wither Them
- Fiddling About and Losing Control
- Not Getting It Makes Getting It Wrong Likely
- Gordon Goes Whining to the Dominie
- Not Again and Not Enough
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October
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Fallen Angels
- David Cameron (for risking the disorderly dissolution of the Euro)
- Giorgio Napolitano (for stance on Budapest 1956: Prague 1968: Italy 2013)
- Mervyn King (for bailing-out Northern Rock)
- Nicholas Kaldor (for inventing VAT)
5 comments:
Send a letter to your local council asking why they allowed your money to be kept in a system which has long been known to be at risk.
Camden didn't go to Iceland E-K. Though I dread to think of where they might be.
All this very onerous tax, that really, really impinges on the living standards of the elderly and fixed income groups has been gathered to be 'invested'. And for what ultimate purpose, rather than gathering the minimum needed to meet local needs? We should get an answer to that.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7663596.stm
The level of taking the piss is beyond a joke.
Somerset CC have just announced five meetings around the county over the next three months. Organised, I think, before it was known that they had £25 million invested.
We shall be attending one, with questions about due diligence. For heavens sake, the Daily Mail warned about them in April.
We're being mugged.
The furious reaction of the new labour regime is like their reaction to the northern rock rip off. What's lost in the Iceland banks seems to be local authority and third sector tax funded money, that's been 'invested', some deposited for quite long periods, a year and more. Why have council officials, not the elected councillors, stashed million, tens of millions, away for months and at times years, when the electorate would prefer lower council taxes? Apart from local councils are there other, regional funds, matching funds, that never go near democratic accountability, lost in these banks as well?
South West RDA reported today to have spent £20 million on a site (purpose unknown) near Glastonbury. Said site has not been touched since it was bought three years ago.
Excellent use of the taxpayers' hard earned spondulicks.
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