Fantasy - is no substitute for truth...
28 January 2013
...is something the newspapers should learn.
...is something the newspapers should learn.
We had the Grauniad, the bible of the left, claiming that Boris Johnson is urging Osborne to end his austerity programme. Simply not true, he said what I said recently that Osborne should change the language.
Then, of course this weekend we have stories about Tory plots to oust Cameron.
Again - not true. Cameron is secure in his leadership and will lead the Party into the next election, indeed ever since his speech at the Party Conference Cameron has been returning steadily to the Conservative mainstream and his Europe speech cemented that.
Adam Afriyie is a very clever man and is most certainly on the shortlist of those who may one day lead the Conservative Party, alongside Boris, Gove and Jessie Norman. But he is no plotter and no 'stalking horse', indeed the rules have changed since the days of 'the stalking donkey Meyer' and no such stalking horse is now needed.
The original 'stalking horse' or rather 'donkey'.... Sir Anthony Meyer.;
Perhaps this whole episode of press speculation was started by someone out to ruin Adam's chances, perhaps it was a story planted by Labour. We may never know, but there is one man who's leadership deserves to be under the spotlight, Milliminor, but lets hope that spotlight stays away from him and that he leads Labour into the election. Cameron must be counting on that.
- What austerity, spending is up
- The first I heard of this "stalking horse", if that is the phraseology required, on the Dover Forum yesterday. The link given was to The Independent, and for reasons to boring to mention, I went to The Guardian site to see their take upon this issue. As there was no article there that I could see, I searched for mentions of friend Adam, and mentions there were, none of them to do with the Independent story:E-invoicing (an article co-written by AA) and Young People's Question Time, were what came up.
Boris...
"George Osborne's austerity plan 'risks lost decade' for UK economy" Is the headline quote, from...
"Jim O'Neill, the chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said the chancellor's continued pursuit of austerity despite signs that the economy was stagnating, including worse-than-expected GDP figures, risked a lost decade for the British economy with low growth and increasing public debt...
...The banker's comments echo criticism of Osborne from within his own party. Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, said government spending could trigger a virtuous cycle of spending by business, which would activate cash held by companies and create economic growth."
Although there are no quotation marks around Boris's reported comment above, there are none around what you say he said either, Barry.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jan/26/goldman-sachs-criticism-george-osborne-austerity?INTCMP=SRCH
In summation:This is all no more than an effort to "fight ire with ire!" - Exactly David.
Tom - Here is a direct quote from Boris, ignored by the Grauniad, sensible stuff, in fact stuff that echoes much of what I have been saying for a long time.
""""‘We need to junk the rhetoric of austerity and be confident. I will be unveiling a seven point economic plan to drive jobs and growth in London which drives the whole of the UK economy… [we need to] stop bashing industries in which we are strong like banks… We also need tax competitiveness, we need to move to low and stable tax rates, in London and in the UK and we need to stick to it and stop moving around.’""""" - Ironic isn't it? - Today We wake with two announcements which highlight some of the ridiculous policies which can only do more damage to our economy.
HS2 and the green deal. Both useless and extremely wasteful projects which will only serve to put billions into the pockets of big business and Tory cabinet ministers.
These two projects will cost every taxpayer thousands.
So much for austerity.
As I've said before Cameron is an idiot. There's no point in excusing him by describing him as a politician - He is an idiot. - hs2 looked like going away but george has changed his mind again and sees this is as an important part of regeneration. it will of course add a lot of capacity to the rail network but train travel is now only for the better off and it will be seen as the less well off subsidising this through taxation.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MqoGORXAv2o