Better Tag clouds for your site, about your site... or about anything you want!

John Redwood MP for Wokingham

These are the most recent articles mentioning "public spending" Time to stop living beyond our means - and that means the government too Posted 05/19/08, 06:04 ... n has racked up huge debts for the taxpayer during the good times, over the œNICE� years, when a little more restraint would have seen good growth in public spending paid for by the natural buoyancy of revenues in years of strong global economic performance. Consumers overall have also be... Recession ahoy? Posted 07/08/08, 13:55 ... urers are priced back into world markets during an inflationary period. The situation in the UK is both ameliorated short term by excessive public spending, and made worse in the medium term (two years) by the over borrowing of the public sector to pay the ballooning bills. Yesterday in th... It’s neither free enterprise - nor Christianity- that creates social breakdown. Posted 07/06/08, 14:18 ... e, and in recent decades has accepted practically every law code and power shift recommended by the EU. Over the last decade the government has taken public spending and borrowing up to EU levels, and has equated NHS spending to health spending levels on the continent. At the same time, France, deep... Halve interest rates and cut wasteful spending Posted 07/18/08, 07:03 Halve interest rates. Cut out waste and undesirable public spending. Sell some public sector assets to raise cash. The government should do all three if it is serious about preventing recession or recovering from the downturn. Money is too tight and interest rates too... After the fiddled figures comes the changed fiscal rules Posted 07/18/08, 06:47 ... After the fiddled figures comes the changed rules. For years we have been served up a diet of changed statistics, altered bases for setting out public spending, a riot of off balance sheet disguises for extra borrowing, and changes in the dates of the famous cycle that is meant to anchor the g... The BBC follows the government on the economy Posted 07/19/08, 06:54 Yesterday the BBC did move from ignoring the idea of cutting public spending, to mentioning it in pejorative terms. At the same time they started pushing out the government propoganda that the UK exceeding the 40% limit on government borrowing should be viewed alongside Italy where governme... Core vote or Middle Britain - what should Labour now do? Posted 07/26/08, 06:29 ... ols and hospitals, yet both main parties believe in free treatment and free school places and accept that requires substantial and increasing sums of public spending on them. The new divisions are Eurosceptic versus Euroenthusiast, and freedom loving versus turning to the state to seek a greater ... Can politicians buy votes by spending more of your money? Posted 07/27/08, 08:22 Most politicians naturally assume public spending is good and more public spending is better. They implicitly assume that you can buy votes with other people™s money. This belief has underpinned the long upwards movement in public spending of the last hundred years, punctuated onl... Time for PM to get a grip Posted 07/30/08, 06:19 ... omy, I was critical of the way he trashed the Bank of England and taxed the pension funds to death at the beginning, disagreed with the huge surge of public spending, borrowing and credit in the middle, and disliked the stealth taxes, the nationalisation of Northern Rock and endless changes to the ... We need Parliament back to cross examine the Chancellor Posted 08/30/08, 07:07 ... ow tells us to expect a bad downturn, worse than any of the private sector forecasters are expecting. This means more job losses, more increases in public spending to help people who lose their job, less tax revenue as the economy falls. The figures involved will be huge. There will be a vast blac... We need Parliament back to cross examine the Chancellor Posted 08/30/08, 07:07 ... ow tells us to expect a bad downturn, worse than any of the private sector forecasters are expecting. This means more job losses, more increases in public spending to help people who lose their job, less tax revenue as the economy falls. The figures involved will be huge. There will be a vast blac... Liberal Democrats are big spenders, not tax cutters Posted 09/13/08, 17:40 ... nt as part of their passion for the Euro project. This most Euro federalist of all the parties is in love with nationalisation, regulation and more public spending. We should not believe that they will cut the waste and taxes given their belief in doing the opposite in ocal government. 40% tax r... John Redwood slams huge increase in Whitehall early retirement figures Posted 09/15/08, 08:30 ... ling in the face of rising inflation and falling demand, it is disappointing to find yet another example of the Government™s failure to get a grip on public spending and the Whitehall bureaucracy. Of course if someone is really ill and needs early retirement an employer should be caring, but I canno... Some good news for a change Posted 10/13/08, 06:41 ... lisation cannot have not looked at the numbers involved. Just four of our banks have combined liabilities in excess of £ 5 trillion, compared with UK public spending of around £0.6 trillion, and UK total income and output of around £1.5 trillion. The nationalisation of Northern Rock was a very bad d... Some good news for a change Posted 10/13/08, 06:41 ... lisation cannot have not looked at the numbers involved. Just four of our banks have combined liabilities in excess of £ 5 trillion, compared with UK public spending of around £0.6 trillion, and UK total income and output of around £1.5 trillion. The nationalisation of Northern Rock was a very bad d... Let’s start fighting recession Posted 10/16/08, 06:00 ... have low interest rates, provide plenty of liquidity to the banking system, ensure all statements are positive and confidence building, and use what public spending you can afford to maximise the beneficial impact on people’s employment and incomes. The UK authorities are giving a very mixe... Government in debt - now at £1.8 trillion Posted 10/21/08, 07:44 ... .8 trillion, reflecting the increase in debts to pay for the banking rescues, the further build up in pension liabilities, and the general overrun on public spending and borrowing this year so far. Brooks Newmark has compiled his figures from official sources where possible, and brought together off... It’s not all going to plan, Chancellor Posted 10/25/08, 05:58 ... raise more of their own capital and cash by cutting costs and expenses and conserving more of their own cashflow. 3. Start to get more control over public spending, and give us revised forecasts of public borrowing which are credible and show a wish to get on top of the government™s own growing de... More BBC lies about the Tories Posted 11/22/08, 09:04 This morning the Today programme kept repeating that the Conservatives have done a U turn on public spending. Instead what they did was do exactly what they promised - agree to Labour spending up to 2009, and then review it. They have now reviewed it and decided spending has to be lower than Labou... What a Labour adviser should say to the PM Posted 11/23/08, 08:10 ... s for wanting tax cuts, to go for broke by offering tax cuts the Tories cannot match because of the financial position. Following this up by making public spending plans much tighter for the years after the election, and warning of tax increases then too, puts the Tories into a bind which the BBC ... What a Labour adviser should say to the PM Posted 11/23/08, 08:10 ... s for wanting tax cuts, to go for broke by offering tax cuts the Tories cannot match because of the financial position. Following this up by making public spending plans much tighter for the years after the election, and warning of tax increases then too, puts the Tories into a bind which the BBC ... << back