Another Day, Another Global Conference

Brown's been holding another global conference, but don't hold your breath for major innovation or an alteration in our global circumstances (except the cold realisation  that the nightmare is real, they have got steadily worse for the last 13 years).  It was just the ususal global conference indulgence towards a Leader who must be humoured because of the damage he would otherwise do on being global conference-thwarted.

The  Prime Minister-in-office repeated his  commitment to high speed broadband.  His ' Government' would invest £1bn to extend superfast broadband to "100pc of the population." He also promised to spend £14bn on projects such as Crossrail, high speed rail and motorways.
Other measures pledged by ministers at the conference included:

• An "Investors' Charter" - a series of promises from the UK Government centred on "maintaining macroeconomic stability as a basis for low inflation and sustained growth." It included pledges to "enhance UK skills"; "develop UK infrastructure" and "make sure your voice is heard across Government."

• A pledge to form the UK innovation Investment Fund to benefit life sciences and advanced manufacturing businesses.

• A commitment to improve access to visas to foreign firms.

All this is reported in the Telegraph.  Frankly they deserve an award for being able to bear taking in once more this reheated set of unfulfilled 'pledges'.