Monthly Archives: December 2011

2 B or not 2 B – the Rating Agency row

The French attack upon the UK’s debts, deficits, inflation and growth rate looked like an attempt to deflect attention from France’s plunging rating. There have been two big differences so far between France and the UK. The first is the UK can print and devalue to keep its debt afloat, whilst France is locked into [...]

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John Redwood – Video of Long Finance Autumn Conference Speech 04/11/11

Keynote note presentation entitled ‘Does Bursting One Bubble Lead to Another?’ delivered by the Rt Hon John Redwood MP to the Long Finance Autumn Conference on 4 November 2011. The event was sponsored and hosted by HSBC. Supported by the City of London Corporation, Gresham College, Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, Tomorrow’s Company, UKSIF [...]

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The Bow Group and a topical fairy story

             Last night I was the guest speaker at the Bow Group’s Christmas drinks. I told them a short European fairy story about countries that wanted to share a currency with each other. I will write it out  nearer Christmas for this blog. It has either a happy or an unhappy ending – you can [...]

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M.A.D. – Mutually assured deflation – the new pact

             It is intriguing to hear how popular the draft new treaty for the 17  is proving with admirers of more EU government. They are often the kind of people who think more government spending and borrowing are a good idea. This pact recommends the opposite. It proposes big cuts in spending and big [...]

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John Redwood’s Christmas Message for 2011

The Rt Hon John Redwood MP has released his Christmas Message for 2011: “We need some mid winter magic this year. There is a warming familiarity as the tinsel and the trees, the holly and the baubles appear in shops and homes. For children there is instant wonder as they see these things for the [...]

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“Progressive” taxation

               Some of you have complained about the idea of progressive taxation, some about the use of the word to describe a system which takes more from the rich than from the poor. I used the word because it is the term commonly used to describe tax systems which take more from those with [...]

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Mr Redwood’s interventions during the opposition day debate on the European Union, 13 Dec

6.48 pm Mr John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con): Of course, the Prime Minister stopped a treaty for the 27. Did the right hon. Gentleman see that the statement that was issued was made only by the 17 euroland Heads of Government? The other nine have not signed up to it. That is very clear in the [...]

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A misreported summit – the UK not isolated, the Euro not saved, the Euro countries still not in agreement

There has been much sound and fury but little progress in Euroland in the last few days. Far from them saving the Euro, they agreed to differ on some things, and agreed to delay on others. We were told the Uk was isolated, yet most of the nine non Euro members have reservations and none [...]

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Mr Redwood’s contribution to the Statement on the EU Council Summit, 12 Dec

Mr John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con): I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his excellent statesmanship. Does he agree that Britain has much more negotiating strength today, because Europe knows that it is dealing with a Prime Minister who will say no if he needs to, than when we had two Prime Ministers who gave in [...]

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So they did not even save the Euro

                 The bad tempered EU meeting last week did little to save the Euro. We still do not know how much money they will have to rescue troubled countries, or to intevene in wobbly bond  markets.                Meanwhile, the non Euro members have seen the text watered down about their possible involvement in the [...]

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    John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College, and has a DPhil from All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has been a director of NM Rothschild merchant bank and chairman of a quoted industrial PLC.
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