[PDF file]: […] the commentators has struck me. A week or so after I wrote in the paragraph above, ‘But no mainstream British politician will argue for raising taxes’, Nick Clegg and Vince Cable of Liberal Democrats did just that. Cable went so far as to actually spell out the Text at . The original text is […]
[PDF file]: A fantasy Johnson Johnson at 10 The Inside Story Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell London: Atlantic Books, 2023, £25, h/b John Newsinger Anthony Seldon begins his previous book on the history of the office of Prime Minister, The Impossible Office, with an imaginary discussion between Robert Walpole and Boris Johnson – the first and, at […]
[PDF file]: […] across a decade and a half; and the parallel reversal of fortune for those ‘plausible young men’ who rose to the top of that society – Nick Clegg, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, David Miliband and the primus inter plausibiles, Tony Blair. ‘This was very much the modern trend: educated, metropolitan, 1 middle-class young men […]
[PDF file]: […] instance, that even if Brown had been re-elected in 2010 he would have pursued a programme of budget cuts not dissimilar to those adopted by Cameron and Clegg, but would have spread them out over a 49 Winter 2010 longer period of time. In this scenario what does the Labour Party stand for?24 Politics […]
[…] state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).42 What Davis calls ‘the posh boys’ – David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg, who led the coalition government from 2010 to 2015 – simply followed the kind of policies the IMF would have imposed had they been called in. […]
[…] state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).42 What Davis calls ‘the posh boys’ – David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg, who led the coalition government from 2010 to 2015 – simply followed the kind of policies the IMF would have imposed had they been called in. […]
[…] state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).29 What Davis calls ‘the posh boys’ – David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg, who led the coalition government from 2010 to 2015 – simply followed the kind of policies the IMF would have imposed had they been called in. […]
[PDF file]: […] poor! Under David Cameron, Brown’s ‘socialism’ was all rolled back. Bower is insistent that the Austerity regime initiated under Cameron has also been seriously misunderstood (poor Nick Clegg does not get so much as a mention). Under Austerity, ‘the beneficiaries . . . were the poor’ with George Osborne’s cuts targeting ‘the work-shy’. Indeed, […]
[PDF file]: […] it is really that important and there will always be sufficient ‘sensible’ people around to maintain the status quo). Where Blair and Brown led, David Cameron, Nick Clegg and the Miliband brothers followed. The exit of Ed Miliband as Labour leader in 2015 after a failure to win a general election was particularly egregious, […]
[PDF file]: […] 9 In his previous post Pickles closed down the anti-corruption unit along with the rest of the Audit Commission. Pickles’s former Liberal Democrat Coalition government partner Nick Clegg has lost not only most of his LibDem MPs but also his former head of communications. According to the Jewish Chronicle, James Sorene ‘will lead BICOM […]
