Monthly Archives: April 2009

Dear Shareholder, I am delighted to report our most successful year ever. We made more progress to achieving our twin goals of increasing our losses and building up our levels of debt than ever before. Indeed, I am especially proud to be able to announce that in just two years we will be able to [...]

Yesterday in the House I renewed my proposal to scrap all unelected reigonal government in England. I did so as one of several proposals to start cutting the deficit by cutting out unliked and wasteful spending. I also did so because I want our country back. England is still the country that is not allowed [...]

Last week the BBC asked me to give a pre budget interview on the Daily Politics on Tuesday of this week. I accepted and reorganised my Tuesday morning to fit it in. They rang to cancel mid morning on the Tuesday. Yesterday the BBC asked me to step in as they had need of me [...]

Just as I feared, they have learnt nothing. It was budget of posturing . A tax on the “rich “to test the Tories – which won’t raise much revenue and may even reduce the revenue. More public spending for Labour areas under a cloak of “doing what it takes”. And enough red ink to launch [...]

The Chancellor should begin by saying sorry. He should say sorry for the deepest and longest recession since the Thirties of the last century. He should say sorry for their regulatory system which did not see banks and building societies were going bust. He should say sorry to all the people out of work or [...]

The UK budget has been well advertised in advance. Gone are the days of budget secrecy followed by the drama of the Chancellor’s presentation in the Commons. I do not expect Mr Darling to resign over all the leaks, even though I have heard media commentators say particular leaks came from the Treasury. We receive [...]

The Today programme this morning told us that scientists report a “dim” (as opposed to a “cool” ) sun. Apparently sunspots and flares are not what they used to be. Is this the beginning of a U turn? Is the BBC about to tell us it is our patriotic duty to generate more carbon dioxide [...]

Chris Grayling, the Shadow Home Secretary, writes: Good Government is about achieving a sensible balance. We need to protect our society against those who would destroy it. But if we throw away the founding principles of a democratic state to do so, then we are doing the terrorists work for them. So I think that [...]