The idea that the best way to deal with amazingly profitable and slightly addictive substances is to let the most thieving and murderous people in our country sell them, and kill anyone who’d mention this to the regulators, also doesn’t strike me as top notch. Sadly, it was also one of the lines
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TimWorstall on 26th Aug 2010 (via timworstall.com)
You could raise a lot of money if you sold the future rights to tax North Sea oil for example. But no the Scots lead government of the anti-English Labour party instead plans to: 1) Sell the right to Tax the English for a crossing they have already more than paid for at Dartford. 2) Sell the English student loan book ( maybe some Welsh and Irish in there somewhere ). 3) Sell the Channel Tunnel rai...
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ManInAShed on 11th Oct 2009 (via atoryblog.blogspot.com)
Mandy had decided, in his infinite folly, to bail out the car industry using taxpayers’ money to guarantee loans. It is clear that these loans will go to, among others, Tata, which owns Jaguar Land Rover. The car subsidiaries are market failures because they don’t sell enough cars. Their parent companies are often very profitable and yet
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TheWiltedRose on 12th Jan 2009 (via thewiltedrose.wordpress.com)
The raw deal of the English There is a perceived problem in England that the English are getting the raw end of the deal in the Union. The Scottish have their own Parliament that votes on issues exclusive to them while the English have no such thing. Yet Scottish MPs can vote on English
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TheWardmanWire on 8th Oct 2008 (via mattwardman.com)
The first ever national strike in it is an inspiration and is to be applauded. The Unite union members in Fujitsu striking to defend their jobs, pay and pensions do so against a profitable company who blatantly seeks to take advantage of the economic crisis. Fujitsu bosses as like many other employers, hope that their employees
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SocialistUnity on 11th Jan 2010 (via socialistunity.com)
Billions lost in deal to sell Armed Forces housing to a private equity company controlled by one of Britain's richest men.
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Telegraph on 5th Oct 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Workers at the Wembley based Chemilnes, a very profitable Pharmacuatical Company, are involved in strike action in support of a decent pay rise and 25 workers who have been laid off. They have already taken 1 day and plan to take nore action on Monday 22nd Dec. The workers who are members of the...
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Tigmoo on 20th Dec 2008 (via johnmcdsunionblog.blogspot.com)
Talks aimed at averting strike action by Royal Mail workers resume later, as union sources suggest a deal is not close.
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BBCPolitics on 20th Oct 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Both parties can learn from Edward Kennedy – a flawed man who achieved so much – that the willingness to strike a deal is no contradiction to having principles, but a condition for realising them
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FT on 26th Aug 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
The Mayor of London ordered London Underground to scupper an 11-th hour deal to avert today's Tube strike, sources have indicated.
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PoliticsCoUk on 10th Jun 2009 (via politics.co.uk)