Faced with the prospect of a global collapse in the banking system, the Chancellor took the decision to bail out the banks by dumping Britain’s gold, forcing the price down and allowing the banks to buy back gold at a profit, thus meeting their borrowing obligations. via Revealed: why Gordon […]
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Gold Wars, Ferdinand Lips
In Gold Wars, Swiss banker Ferdinand Lips sets out the case that gold and freedom are inseparable. Over 254 pages, he shows how governments fight against gold, a vital restraint on their spending and therefore interventions in the lives of free people. It’s a case which ex-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan […]
Read MoreThey can’t go on like this
Via ConservativeHome:
Read MoreReady for Change
An excellent video explaining Labour’s legacy and our plans: We just can’t get rid of this desperate government soon enough.
Read MoreThe Sun Says “Labour’s lost it”
The Sun destroys Gordon Brown’s speech and record: TWELVE years ago, Britain was crying out for change from a divided, exhausted Government. Today we are there again. In 1997, “New” Labour, shorn of its destructive hard-Left doctrines and with an energetic and charismatic leader, seemed the answer. Tony Blair said […]
Read MoreYou’ve been Fleeced!
Via the Taxpayers’ Alliance: On Monday, Matthew Elliott and David Craig released their new book Fleeced! How we’ve been betrayed by the politicians, bureaucrats and bankers… and how much they’ve cost us, published by Constable. Fleeced! is the very first book to analyse the financial, fiscal and political crisis resulting from a […]
Read MoreMervyn King warns that spending cuts and tax rises are needed – Telegraph
Speaking to the Treasury Committee of MPs, Mr King dealt a serious blow to Mr Brown’s political strategy of casting the next election as a choice between “Tory cuts” and “Labour investment.” In the Budget in April, Alistair Darling set out plans to borrow an extra £700 billion over five […]
Read MoreRuth Lea: Gordon Brown never was fit for Number 10
Doubtless politics has always had its dark side. But the depths to which it has sunk over the last 12 years under New Labour has been unprecedented in this country. Of all the legacies left by this Government the poisoning of political discourse is surely the worst. Gordon Brown, foul-tempered […]
Read MoreGordon Brown: Labour’s dilemma | Editorial | The Guardian
Even The Guardian has had enough of Gordon Brown: Political reform can no longer be put aside as an abstract idea, of appeal to dreamers but not to voters who face the harder realities of life. The public is calling furiously for a better system. People want an honest parliament. […]
Read MoreYou know it’s not a police state when…
… a petition for the Prime Minister to resign is the outright most popular petition on his own website: Magnificent yet terrible: how long must we wait?
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