By John J Kelly In yet another demonstration of the sort of lateral thinking that has made Gordon Brown not only saviour of the banks but saviour of the world, Work and Pensions Minister James Purnell announced a government pledge to force long term sickness benefits claimants and some single mothers back to work. The Welfare Reform White [...]
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Gordon Brown's pension legacy
November 24, 2008 – 6:08 pm
. . . there won’t be one. According to the FT: “Gordon Brown has been the most disastrous PM of all time for pensions; after just 1.3 years in office, Brown has presided over a negative annual return of 28.2% – only Neville Chamberlain is in that league, having overseen an 11% drop in the [...]
Fiscal scriscal, fiddle-dee dee, Europe's suddenly OK with me
November 21, 2008 – 6:17 pm
Before spreadsheets enabled geeks to assume they could manipulate the economic weather, we knew that if we spent too much, we’d run out of money. If we ran out of things to sell or do in return for more money, we’d be in trouble. If we borrowed money at unrealistic interest rates, we’d be in [...]