UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced today that he will be spending an additional £95 million in corporate welfare. This will apparently create more jobs and grow small and medium businesses (presumably if this program is really successful these businesses will become large and thus will no longer qualify for government support). It just [...]
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Scottish National Party in majority government
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on May 6, 2011 1 comment
Canada isn’t the only English speaking country that has witnessed a historic election this week. The Scottish National Party has won a majority government in the Scottish Parliament. This is remarkable when you consider that the Scottish electoral system was specifically designed to make majority governments unlikely. Since 2007 the SNP has been in a [...]
Dan Hannan: Let’s not invade Libya
Posted by Peter Jaworski on March 22, 2011 Comments Off
Daniel Hannan, Member of the European Parliament for South East England, explains why he opposes intervention in Libya: ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
The United Kingdom’s Budget 2010
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on October 21, 2010 3 comments
It isn’t just the British government is cutting spending, and it isn’t even that they are cutting so much spending; although both of those things are exciting. It is what exactly they are cutting that makes the announced British budget the most important budget in post-war UK. David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s coalition government is [...]
British government slashes government
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 20, 2010 26 comments
This is unbelievable. Today, the British government has announced what appear to be massive cuts, totaling about 83 billion pounds. The Washington Post reports: The measures announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will span four years and include an average cut of 19 percent in central government departments’ budgets, an $11 billion reduction [...]