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Excellent news that Newsnight
Review will in future come from
Glasgow. Hopefully you will be
covering the SNP Conference in
Perth as well - tomorrow? The
news so far seems to be that
Stewart Hosie MP who is very
close to Salmond has asked a
few pertinent questions of Mr
Brown about the conditions he
has attached to capital allocated
to The Bank of Scotland and to Lloyds TSB eg. is the money all
contingent on the bank merger?

Excellent news that Newsnight
Review will in future come from
Glasgow. Hopefully you will be
covering the SNP Conference in
Perth as well - tomorrow? The
news so far seems to be that
Stewart Hosie MP who is very
close to Salmond has asked a
few pertinent questions of Mr
Brown about the conditions he
has attached to capital allocated
to HBOS and to Lloyds TSB

eg. is the money all
contingent on the bank merger?

Obama said to McCain when they were debating that if McCain is elected it would be '8 more years of the same'? I thought the term was 4 years in the United States.
Is Barack really saying that were he to lose in 2008, Hilary would
lose as well in 2012 against McC?

DOES IT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE?

Whoever gets into the Whitehouse; by their very success they are defined. It is the same in the UK.
Only a strange sub-set of humanity who are driven by a messy fusion of need and ambition - such that they mortgage any integrity they might have once had, in pursuit of their goal - arrive in high office.
This is, clearly, the exact reverse of what would benefit mankind, serving wider nature and the planet itself.
Did 'I'm not Blair' J Gordon Brown, bring CHANGE? 'Let the work of change begin' he said, as he clutched his prize. Now Mandy is back, Campbell is back, spin is spinning and the merry-go-round turns, much as it did under Straight Guy Tony.
With this in mind, I doubt either McCain or Obama will herald in an Age of Wisdom. Under either, war will be used as a tool of civilisation and commerce will be seen as the answer to Africa's woes - while being the cause of ours.

Me? I shall just roll up my carbon footprint, and steal away to oblivion.

Could you ask a Democrat how increasing Corporate taxes will help keep jobs in America ?

Currently US Companies have to pay 35%
UK companies pay 28%
Other counties have alot less tax than the UK.

Why should companies stay in America when they can employ people in cheaper countries to make their goods , then import these goods into the USA and avoid your higher corporate taxes ?

Could you also ask how Ford and others are going to do research into more fuel efficacy cars when the Democrats have increased their taxes , thus reducing their revenue for such research ?

I don't think I misheard Mr Obama in this mornings debate , did I ?

Barrie (#4) "Me? I shall just roll up my carbon footprint, and steal away to oblivion."

Nah... You're too good a politician.

Now me, on the other-hand ;-)

Take your time but follow the links. This is stuff the english media don't tell you.

I imagine many in the US don't realise either.




Follow all the way to the climate change and innovation act.

The choice between McCain and Obama couldn't be clearer. McCain represents the past and Obama the future.
We will find out in three weeks' time whether the American people wish to cling to the past or, with all its risks, to embrace the future.

Obama is a "shoe-in" so is Cameron so get used to it. All will be well. Who will the Tories on this blog-site will have to blame then? Can't wait for this New Jerusalem.
Turkeys voting for Christmas.

I await with interest the excuses that will be made such as "The mess Labour has left "will keep them going for at least two terms, but that is the nature of "buggins turn" in politics.
As my wife told me tonight the Tories can't make a worse mess than Labour so that is alright then, they can't??!!! She was a 10p tax loser as was my son. Both "New Tory"voters.

If they both become "winners" under the Tories I will "show my backside in Woolies window"-not a pretty sight?

Our turn will come again after another 18 years of Tory misrule, Don't believe me? Read your history that is if you bloggers wish to re-write it.

LEAVE IT OUT JEAN

Oh Jaded Jean! Tell me that was a joke (#6). And then tell me you will never call me a politician again - even as a joke! I am trying to beat them, not join them.

Advancing in a backward direction to the end of the circle?


Barrie #4
Yes, politicians are quick to talk about change, but not keen to offer progress.


I think some of the reasons for this are:

1. Large sections of the populace are so disillusioned with our political leaders that they think any change has got to be an improvement (optimists!).

2. Change is the politician's friend; changing politicians through various official posts gives them a chance to bury their mistakes, hide their inadequacies, and make spin announcements about their 360 degree change of direction.

3. Change is inevitable anyway, so an easy promise to keep.

4. Progress can mean different things to different people, so honestly stating what progressive steps you wish to make could lose support of those optimists above.
For example, because New Labour believe they should totally run our lives their idea of progress involves recreating a Stasi made more powerful though modern technology so that New Labour can go data-mining for whatever interests them (for us proles this means no public accountability of authoritarian measures such as DNA database, biometric ID cards, all conversations and communications monitored, etc); I don't see this increasingly authoritarian state as progress, but as a backward step for democracy. But it's definitely CHANGE.

On Friday when you cover Cameron's attack on Brown I hope that somebody will raise whether the only route to fully understanding what went wrong is a public inquiry.

Would Cameron have done much different? I doubt it and he won't ever say "that could have been me!".

Brown is portraying himself as the economic hero of the west. Not as somebody who enthusiastically promoted and put in place the policies that have just failed. Regulation and transparency might have been an idea before the crisis.

The banks are easy scapegoats.

The fact that we still talk about the Wall St Crash nearly a hundred years later is because of its global importance.

We need to fully learn all of the lessons from this crisis to prevent further crises in a world likely to experience volatility due to climate change.

It didn't take "Mandy" long to get back into the fray.

"The claims centre on Commission decisions taken on Lord Mandelson's watch which allegedly resulted in businessman Oleg Deripaska gaining up to £50 million a year thanks to changes in EU import duties." as reported in the Independent.

thegangofone (#12) "We need to fully learn all of the lessons from this crisis"

It appears to me from much that you have written to ths blog that you are (perhaps unwittingly?) strongly opposed to the antithesis of 'light-touch regulation' in general. That being so, may I ask what you think you have learned from this crisis?

'The banks are easy scapegoats.' ...Indeed.