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For your ease and convenience: car tax


Apparently, the ease and convenience of the online car tax system means that DVLA in 2007 took 25% more online every day than that retail leviathan, Tesco. Apparently: In July 2007, our Electronic Vehicle Licensing (EVL) service was awarded the Orange Best Use of Technology in Business Award (Wales & West Country) at the National Business Awards. and: By August 2007, our Electronic Vehicle Licensing service is estimated to have saved 13,500 tonnes of CO 2 from 48m miles of journeys […]

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Carswell on Peston and Corporatism


Peston calls this the “new capitalism”.  This seems to be all about government overseeing big business and public policy-makers directing business.  Not much “new” about this idea, Robert.  It’s called corporatism.  And they tried it in 1920s Italy and elsewhere. via Douglas Carswell MP. It seems that, from generation to generation, we must keep explaining why government and big business should not be entwined. We have had a crisis of global statism. It’s time to try capitalism, a sustainable capitalism of […]

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FT.com / US – Detroit reels as $14bn rescue fails


The high profile effort to agree legislation to lend $14bn to the US auto industry collapsed on Thursday night, leading the Bush administration to hold open the possibility that it would seek funds from its financial rescue plan instead. Efforts to agree a deal in the US Senate ended in failure when Harry Reid, the leader of the Democratic majority, said negotiations with Senate Republicans were at an end and warned that millions of jobs were at stake as a […]

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Vauxhall in secret cash plea to save 5,000 jobs — Times


The Times has learnt that the vehicle manufacturer, which employs around 5,000 workers at plants in Merseyside and Luton, approached Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, last week along with other carmakers, to urge the Government to give guarantees offering financial comfort to its car-part suppliers and dealerships. read more | digg story

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Carmakers plead for $34bn US handout – Times Online


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From the Times Online: Rick Wagoner, the chief executive of General Motors, today expressed remorse for asking for a $18 billion hand-out from Washington but warned that without immediate assistance the car maker would run out of money by Christmas. And from my spam filter: read more | digg story

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Ford and GM bosses offer to sell corporate jets and work for $1 a year


While Mr Mulally boasted that Ford was in better shape than General Motors and Chrysler, he said that he still needed a $9 billion ten-year federal loan to act as a cash cushion in case market conditions deteriorated. Aiiieee! read more | digg story

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Lloyds TSB and HBOS merge


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The Guardian: A £12bn takeover of Britain’s biggest lender, HBOS, failed to halt the deepening crisis in world financial markets last night, as a wave of fresh speculation on global stock markets saw two of Wall Street’s most prestigious investment banks targeted as the latest victims of the credit crunch. So, irrespective of whether this was or was not the correct crisis measure, over the years four financial institutions have become one — with consequent effects on competition and therefore […]

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Hello 1984 – UK National Staff Dismissal Register to go Live


Workers accused of theft or damage could soon find themselves blacklisted on a register to be shared among employers. Innocent people could find it impossible to get another job if listed on the online database of workers accused of theft and dishonesty – regardless of whether they have been convicted of any crime. Here we find more punishment without due process, an extension of the presumption of guilt and subjugation of the individual to another system open to abuse. Of […]

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