End of the road for car scrappage scheme
The government’s Car Scrappage Scheme comes to an end today. It has resulted in losses to the Treasury and a large boost to the South Korean motoring industry.
Yearly Archives: 2010
A consensus on community organisation
The Conservative party should be praised for their announcement today on community organisers. Political parties must now adopt the goals, as well as the methods.
De-regulation won’t solve the jobs crisis
The TUC have published The Red Tape Delusion. The report systematically dismantles the neo-liberal argument that labour market regulation prohibits growth.
Today’s Politics Summary
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Immigration: The limits to limits
Only the Tories have promised to cap immigration levels; they’ve been reluctant to specify the details, so it’s unclear which flows they’d cap, or their level.
New nuclear: delays, delays and more delays
DECC have announced that ‘Horizon Nuclear Power’ have said they plan to have their first nuclear plant generating by 2020. But there are a number of problems.
Never mind Latvian gay rights, what about Iraq’s record?
The UK has a terrible record with case-after-case of people fleeing torture, arrest, ‘honour’ killing and the like needing campaigning and years of expensive legal effort to force the Home Office to grant them sanctuary.
Lawson: scrap “absurd” Climate Change Act
Lord Lawson has said the Government should suspend the “absurd” Climate Change Act. He believes this will allow the third runway at Heathrow to go ahead.
BNP candidate’s homophobic attack “beyond the pale”
A BNP leader has called for kissing between men to be banned in public. The BNP leader in East Sussex, also attacked the “morals and honesty” of a gay Tory MP.
UK-US relations still special
The report on Anglo-American relations is a more balanced attempt to understand the nature of the “Special Relationship” than the screaming headlines suggest.