Tiari Sanchez: Labour failing those it promised to help

Despite creating Fiscal Fantasy Island with thousands of overpaid non-jobs, quangocrats and special advisers over the last thirteen years, this Labour Government can’t even pay its own cleaners at the Treasury a living wage, forcing 14-year-old Tiari Sanchez’s family to live on a diet of lentils. Watch the heartbreaking [...]

Mervyn King confirms UK election victory will be a poison chalice

Reuters reports Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, as telling fellow economist David Hale:

whoever wins this election will be out of power for a whole generation because of how tough the fiscal austerity will have to be

Mervyn King tells the truth

The economically literate have long known that we are living [...]

Electioneering for Liberals #1: Murdoch's presses will try to flatten your bandwagon

Has Rupert Murdoch backed the wrong horse?

However much the liberal press claims that there is a secret deal between the Conservative Party and Rupert Murdoch’s News International, there probably isn’t one. There are two important reasons: firstly, this is not the way these things are done; secondly, and more importantly, there is no [...]

Tips for the Tories #1: Choose alliances with care

Voter-friendly?

The general election is going to be tough and the Conservatives cannot afford to make it harder for themselves: the electoral map of Britain is already drawn in Labour’s favour.  Tony Blair understood only too well he needed to appeal to the middle ground and secure the votes of some of the natural supporters of [...]