[…] released so far was the US Embassy in London’s account of a 2010 conversation with Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, about messieurs Osborne and Cameron. The cable says: ‘Both Cameron and Osborne have a tendency to think about issues only in terms of politics, and how they might affect Tory electorability. […]
[PDF file]: […] the financial chaos originated. Tooze recounts in detail Prime Minister Cameron’s attempts to persuade the EU to leave the City off-shore, outside the EU’s regulatory remit. And Cameron got what he wanted, guarantees from the EU about not regulating the City. But three days before this was announced the UK referendum process had started […]
[…] inter alia, my copy of the Labour Party’s 1982 publication, The City: A Socialist Approach.1 4 And so, on with the political economy. What do Osborne and Cameron think they are doing? W hen Cameron and Osborne took office I used to speculate with a couple of correspondents about what they thought they were […]
[…] privatisation of public money in the West is thus more or less complete.’ 2 Bankers in Whitehall In September Ian Fraser commented on his blog: ‘When David Cameron reshuffled his cabinet earlier this week, the arrival of a trio City of London bankers and consultants at Her Majesty’s Treasury went almost unnoticed. This in […]
[PDF file]: […] against the Euro over the period, were right all along. The book concludes in self-congratulation before adding an epilogue looking back on the period between 2015 (when Cameron offered a referendum under pressure from the Brexit Party) and 2017. This covers the attempts at renegotiation with the EU, the referendum campaign and the immediate […]
[PDF file]: […] not one of them thought that these facts might be connected. The Conservative Party annual conference was noteworthy for a striking piece of nonsense from Prime Minister Cameron claiming that the Conservatives were the now the party of ‘working people’. Many commentators, who really ought to know better by now, took this seriously. The […]
[PDF file]: […] released so far was the US Embassy in London’s account of a 2010 conversation with Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, about messieurs Osborne and Cameron. The cable says: ‘Both Cameron and Osborne have a tendency to think about issues only in terms of politics, and how they might affect Tory electorability. […]
[…] political parties is anywhere near suggesting something as radical as this. The Conservative Party annual conference was noteworthy for a striking piece of nonsense from Prime Minister Cameron claiming that the Conservatives were the now the party of ‘working people’. Many commentators, who really ought to know better by now, took this seriously. The […]
[PDF file]: […] had, inter alia, my copy of the Labour Party’s 1982 publication, The City: A Socialist Approach.14 And so, on with the political economy. What do Osborne and Cameron think they are doing? When Cameron and Osborne took office I used to speculate with a couple of correspondents about what they thought they were doing. […]
[PDF file]: […] PLP being angered by his failure to condemn (or even comment on) the latest Israeli incursion into Lebanon, by the poor polling record of Labour after David Cameron had taken over of leader of the Conservative Party, and, possibly, by the loss of Dunfermline and West Fife, the constituency that directly adjoined Brown’s seat, […]
