So it looks like Gordon's going to go through the theatre of a pre-election budget. This can mean only one thing - he's going to get Darling to lie big time. He'll no doubt use his traditional tricks including: Hiding in the small print - so the headlines won't pick up on the downside.Lots are straight bold lies - eg "Best placed in Europe to weather the recession " "No more bo...
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ManInAShed on 10th Mar 2010 (via atoryblog.blogspot.com)
Darling's budget tried to create a 'dividing line' that you can't cut your way out of recession. But will voters buy it this time? Barring the desultory nod to climate change, everything else about Alistair Darling's budget was a throwback to the mid 1970s. There was the ballooning budget deficit on the back of a severe recession. There was the income tax increase for the ...
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Guardian on 23rd Apr 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
Alistair Darling has started giving the his second Budget against a backdrop of the worst recession in nearly 30 years and with the public finances at their most stretched since the Second World War
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FT on 22nd Apr 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Today's Budget - Building Britain's Future - is a Budget for jobs and targeted investment in a stronger recovery. Every country is being hit by the global credit crunch - which has led to the first global recession since the Second World War. You can't cut your way out of recession - you have to grow your way. It will cost us more if we don't act now to support people and busin...
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Labourhome on 22nd Apr 2009 (via labourhome.org)
Forget Prudence, forget stability, Alistair Darling's 2009 Budget buzzword was: "investment" - with 34 mentions. It beat "recovery," with 22, "recession," 19, "growth," 19, "confidence," seven, "global recession," six, "unemployment," six, "fairness," five, "opportunities," three, and "green," three. Full coverage of the Budget 2009.
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RosaPrince on 22nd Apr 2009 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
THE coalition government was accused yesterday of hiding the true impact of its austerity Budget, after a leaked Treasury paper suggested that 1.3 million jobs would be lost a
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Scotsman on 30th Jun 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
THE SNP today said Chancellor Alistair Darling's Budget will propel the UK back into recession.
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Scotsman on 25th Mar 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
A report on the assembly's draft budget for next year says more needs to be done to pull Wales out of recession.
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BBCPolitics on 13th Nov 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Lisbon has provided governments with an alibi. As long as they were arguing about majority voting or the size of the Commission, they could sidestep the issues of substance pressing down on the Union, writes Philip Stephens. But Europe cannot escape the existential choice of the coming decade
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FT on 1st Oct 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
The 2009 Infosecurity Europe show - held at Earls Court in London this week - has proven to be a recession-proof success, with visitor attendances up on the 2008 figures by 5%.
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PublicTechnology on 2nd May 2009 (via publictechnology.net)
Most economists polled by the BBC say recession will return to Europe next year, while UK interest rates will stay at 0.5%.
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BBCPolitics on 30th Dec 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)
