Mr Huffy
The Prime Minister started the week basking in the glory of his Tory backbenchers who were overjoyed at his outflanking of his Lib/Dem Coalition partners when he invoked an EU veto at the European Council in Brussels the previous weekend. Nick Clegg immediately took the huff even refusing to sit with the PM during his statement to the Commons. His “huff” was supported by all his 56 MPs, when they refused to vote for a Commons motion tabled by the Ulster Unionist congratulating David Cameron on using his veto. The political conspiracy theorists are at work forecasting doom and …
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Auld Year / New Year
Auld Year
As we see the auld 2011 year out and the new 2012 year in this weekend it is difficult to imagine that the next twelve months could be as bad as the last. But bad and worse is very much on the cards. This year we’ve had national disasters in Japan, New Zealand, Philippines etc; Revolutions in Africa and the Middle East in Tunisia, Yemen, Somalia, Egypt, Libya, Iran and Syria; the global economy with America and Europe again looking over the abyss of another economic meltdown, which could go beyond the worse experiences of the 2008 global recession.
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