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Post by lala on Apr 5, 2011 1:15:57 GMT
+1 ... Bold and morally justifiable intervention in Libya. Unlike certain other former premiers. OVERALL: -1/10. It might not sound very impressive, but it's a rare move in the right direction for this dreadful government. Perhaps pursuing a genuinely ethical foreign policy abroad will compensate for their unutterable awfulness at home. EDIT: decided +2 was a bit generous, since it wasn't really the coalition that was the driving force behind the UN resolution and intervention.
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Post by moggyonspeed on Apr 5, 2011 12:18:45 GMT
+1 ... Cleggemon has policies; Miliband hasn't even got a clue. -1 ... Gove confuses lots of short-term tactics for a strategy. +1 ... The coalition joins the French to offer Gaddafi real choice as to who bombs him next. +/-0 ... The gummint continues to finance the Indian space program.. +1 ... Cameron takes not a blind bit of notice to the 65 million people (say the unions) on the "cuts march". +1 ... Increasing capital gains tax. Yep, agree with that one. -1 ... Enterprise zones; will just shuffle unemployment from one area to another. Maybe. +1 ... Listening to people re: forests; make that +2, since NuLabia didn't do this once in 13 chuffin' years. +1 ... Opening the books on spending. Yep, agree with that one too.
I've just heard on the radio that the unions now say that there were 75 million people on that there march. Unbelievable.
Don't know what that makes my total score as I didn't benefit from Blair's ejumukation policies.
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Post by lala on May 18, 2011 6:46:43 GMT
+2 ... Ambitious targets for carbon cuts, especially given general inertia and cowardice among developed economies. OVERALL: 1/10. Brave and far sighted commitment to actually doing something about climate change brings the coalition back into positive territory. A particularly effective 'f**k you' to Labour, and especially Ed Miliband, who achieved nothing comparable as Secretary of State for the Energy and Climate Change.
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Post by flatandy on May 18, 2011 7:55:18 GMT
I'm less excited by those targets, given that they've built in a get-out, but it's still more impressive than anyone else has come up with.
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Post by lala on Jun 9, 2011 22:56:57 GMT
-1 ... Wimpish about face on sentencing reform, demonstrating a lack of guts in the face of an opportunistic attacks from Labour, some bad press mutterings from the back benches. And Cameron has the cheek to suggest Miliband isn't "not really in command of the ship" OVERALL: 0/10. The brief return to positive territory turns out to have been a dead cat bounce. Normal business is resumed, with a strange combination of spinelessness and dimwitted pro-prison folly leading to the scraping of sane policy.
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Post by lala on Jul 12, 2011 4:17:50 GMT
-1 ... Cameron's attempts to brush off perfectly reasonable demands tha the account for the hiring of Andy Coulson, in the face of the revelations that warnings were given. -1 ... The government's slow, dim-witted, fumbling response to the NOTW scandal and failure to move on the BSB buy out until goaded into action by the opposition. OVERALL: -2/10. Wracked by scandal, shown to be indecisive, corrupt and self-serving, the coalition (assuming it survives this latest trial) appears to be plunging back into the inky depths, never to resurface. Probably. In this and in other recent events, David Cameron's character, which was one of the factors that seemed to be ameliorating the innate hatefulness of Tory governments, has been found wanting, and he has been shown to be a bit of ham fisted blunderer.
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Post by lala on Nov 19, 2011 19:40:02 GMT
+1 ... Plans to encourage people to build new homes, basically acknowledging that Labour's plan to build our way out of recession was right all along. OVERALL: -1/10. This hasn't been updated for a long time, basically because the government hasn't been doing anything drastically annoying enough (or, somewhat less lightly, sensible enough) to merit changes. Encouraging building of new homes seems a sensible policy, however.
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Post by lala on Jan 9, 2012 8:11:11 GMT
+1 ... David Cameron's intention to retain the 50p rate of tax shows that some sanity remains in Downing Street OVERALL: 0/10. Another steal from Labour. Smart politics by Cameron, gradually substituting sensible, centrist policy for the divisive lunacy of Osbornism. Also sane economics. Of course, it's only a rumour at this stage.
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Post by lala on Mar 16, 2012 23:38:38 GMT
-1 ... Hints that the 50p top rate will be retained appear untrue. -1 ... Bonfire of the Environmental Regulations. These restrictions are there for a good reason. -1 ... Continued dithering on Syria, stupidity over Iran. OVERALL: -3/10. Rich blokes doing things that will benefit rich blokes. Screwing the coutnry and the environemnt. Stupid hypocrisy in the Middle East. True Tory tendencies coming through. It's like 1997 all over again.
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Post by Repat Van on Mar 16, 2012 23:48:55 GMT
Awesome. Well done Cameron!
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Post by lala on Mar 21, 2012 5:59:04 GMT
+1 ... Increase in tax free allowance. Will help the poorest. Shame the top rate is to go, as it's hard to square a fiscally negative change with the deficit fixation that Osbourne preached before the election. OVERALL: -2/10. A minor uptick as a Lib Dem policy is pirated. Osbourne's twofaced, and both of them are horribly smug looking.
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Mar 21, 2012 7:26:08 GMT
it's hard to square a fiscally negative change
It's probably not fiscally negative:
50p tax rate 'failing to boost revenues’ The amount of income tax paid fell sharply last month in the first formal indication that the new 50p higher rate is not raising the expected amount of revenue.
The Treasury received £10.35 billion in income tax payments from those paying by self-assessment last month, a drop of £509 million compared with January 2011. Most other taxes produced higher revenues over the same period.
Senior sources said that the first official figures indicated that there had been “manoeuvring” by well-off Britons to avoid the new higher rate. The figures will add to pressure on the Coalition to drop the levy amid fears it is forcing entrepreneurs to relocate abroad.
The self-assessment returns from January, when most income tax is paid by the better-off, have been eagerly awaited by the Treasury and government ministers as they provide the first evidence of the success, or failure, of the 50p rate. It is the first year following the introduction of the 50p rate which had been expected to boost tax revenues from self-assessment by more than £1billion.
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Post by Repat Van on Mar 21, 2012 8:05:50 GMT
Really? No! You mean as the top rate grows and grows those who fall into that category are more incentivised to seek to avoid it? Who'd a thunk it.
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Post by lala on Oct 17, 2012 3:35:22 GMT
+1 ... Right decision on Gary McKinnon. OVERALL: -1/10. Another small boost as the coalition shows a Better-Than-New-Labour level of concern for British citizens, in the midst of its economic idiocy.
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Post by Eric on Oct 17, 2012 3:58:43 GMT
The Gary McKinnon thing was mishandled by the states, from the start. It was more American incompetence that let him in, and they have wasted their time and money in trying to 'make an example of him'. Many who are REALLY antithetic towards the US will see his story as inspiration, that anyone can hack American systems.
They should have done their best to fix the problems, and put McKinnon on a retainer to try to break and hack them some more, for a fee, and advise on defences.
US imagination beaten by US aggression and wish for vengeance.
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Post by Muz on Oct 17, 2012 5:42:44 GMT
Right decision on Abu Hamza and his friends too.
+5 in total for that.
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Post by lala on Oct 17, 2012 5:55:38 GMT
Dunno if you can really credit that to the coalition. The legal process just ran its course.
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Post by Muz on Oct 17, 2012 6:05:05 GMT
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha bollocks. The coalition binned them after years of Labour fudging. McKinnon's extradition was blocked and his bail conditions lifted, again after years of Labour limp wristed Yank gobbling.
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Oct 17, 2012 7:15:25 GMT
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9613703/UK-deficit-before-crisis-was-38bn-bigger-than-thought.htmlInterstingly, labour were far, far worse than anybody could have imagined. UK deficit before crisis was £38bn bigger than thought Britain's public finances were worse than thought in the run up to the financial crisis, with a black hole of £73bn – £38bn larger than previously stated – Treasury analysis has shown. The new official analysis, based on a report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), showed that Britain was running a so-called structural deficit of 5.2pc in 2007 – far higher than the 2.5pc initially stated by the IMF.Using this measurement, which records the amount by which public borrowing exceeds tax revenues after external economic factors are considered, Britain entered the global financial crisis in a worse position than other major economic powers. America’s structural deficit was 3.3pc, France’s was 3pc and Germany’s 1.1pc. Thats a 5.2% deficit before the financial crisis. So even in the "boom" years labour were spunking it up fastre than we were making it. Dear god the should be sued.
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Oct 17, 2012 7:18:32 GMT
Just as an adendum the only person who came out of that with any credibility was Darling, much as he is on the Scottish devolution pantomime currently at a theatre near you.
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