Inconsistent talk from the Chancellor
As stock markets the world over continue to convulse, the UK Chancellor Alistair Darling has told MPs that European countries need to work more closely together when responding to the financial crisis. But at the same time as he called on EU members to co-ordinate action, he stopped short of following the example of other governments in guaranteeing all bank savings. “When member states take unilateral action, it does have a knock-on effect,” he said.
tags: Chancellor of the Exchequer, credit crunch, governments, money, policy, stock marketsAnother slap in the face for the English
Why did Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledge yesterday, at the Labour Party Conference, to scrap prescription charges for people in England with cancer from next year? He said that anyone with a long-term illness would also be eligible, but the devil, as they say, will be in the detail. What’s the betting that ‘long-term illness’ will be strictly defined according to a woefully short and very controversial list of diseases and disorders drawn up in Whitehall by rich blokes in suits who have only ever suffered an occasional cold, or, if they do get seriously ill, are most likely to head straight to a private hospital for treatment?
tags: Gordon Brown, government, Labour, NHS, policy, politics, prescriptions
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