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"Love him or hate him there is no doubt shadow chancellor Ed Balls has the measure of David Cameron. "
"As opposed to the sedative effect of Jubilee parties, UK Uncut’s street parties are intended to wake up new ideas, new connections and new collective power. They are not about celebrating Britain as it is or as it was in 1948. They are about defiance and the definition of a future that we want to see, where we live – that is determined by us all – not for us, by a bunch of men who think they own power, money, business, government, us and our future."
"The increase in wealth of this richest 1,000 has been £315bn over the last 15 years. If they were charged capital gains tax on this at the current 28% rate, it would yield £88bn, enough to pay off 70% of the entire deficit. "
"Unlikely, and Kelvin MacKenzie is hardly known for his observations, but still fun to think about."
"... it clearly marks a turning point in European politics, though a lot still depends on how forcefully and skilfully this wedge against the dominant Right is used."
"After Prime Minister David Cameron insisted that he ‘got the message’ following the Conservatives’ mauling at last week’s local elections, voters have highlighted that the fact he hasn’t resigned yet suggests otherwise."
"Welsh Government Education Minister Leighton Andrews has called for the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to be sacked after comments he made to the Sunday Express about his reasons for closing Remploy factories, which employ disabled staff."
"Budget cutbacks and law changes forced through by the Tory-led Coalition Government are crippling the bureau’s attempts to help ordinary people get by… at the very time when more people than ever need urgent help."
"Adolf Hitler would have been be so proud! He failed in taking the British Isles but it turns out that it doesn’t really matter as his political ideologies are being readily carried out by todays Tory led coalition government."
"Britain is facing the prospect of a "lost decade" of sluggish growth and high unemployment if the Government will not change course on the economy, shadow chancellor Ed Balls has warned."
" In fact, the beatings will continue until morale improves."
"“The results are in: Keynesians have been completely right, Austerians utterly wrong – at vast human cost” – so wrote Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman in the New York Times following yesterday’s announcement Britain is in a double-dip recession."
"There are particular features of a credit crunch that make a recovery harder than a conventional recession. However I feel that all the intervention and extraordinary monetary stimulus that has been provided has simply not worked and via its impact on real wages (which are falling) may have made things worse. Also the banking sector which is the one most responsible for our predicament has been bailed out but crucially not reformed. We have made the mistake of the Japanese in allowing zombie banks to continue and this led to a what is called a “lost decade” for them but now encompasses two decades.""
"A recent USA study connecting political views and intelligence has shown that the mean adolescent intelligence of young adults who identify themselves as "very liberal" is 106.4, while that of those who identify themselves as "very conservative" is 94.8. Two other studies conducted in the UK reached similar conclusions."
"The opposition, press and economists turned on the government today for the UK’s descent into a double-dip recession for the first time since the mid-seventies."
"This is the recession that George Osborne repeatedly assured us wouldn’t happen, despite OECD predictions that it would as recently as last month. But the new developments will heap still more pressure on a chancellor reeling from the catastrophe of his last budget. The decision to cut tax for millionaires looks even more unsound now."
"Health care can be converted into a market, but it is a market of winners and losers. Those with good health or good income are likely to benefit from market forces, whereas their polar opposites will be damaged."
"It would be all too easy to write this clown off as an attention-seeking fruitcake, but I have little doubt that these are policies close to Cameron’s black and festering heart ..."
"He added: "I think we should have a compromise. Boris should let me be Mayor and I will support him to be the permanent host of Have I Got News For You. That would be each of us doing what we do best.""
"The method – popularly known as ‘fagging’ - is also seen as a relatively cheap way of ensuring the country’s natural resources are extracted and made available for exploition by a bunch of public schoolboys and their friends."
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