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Daniel Elton

New growth figures point to 2012/3 deficit 50 per cent bigger than originally projected

Daniel Elton
9 February, 2012

The deficit is now set to be8.4 per cent oin 2012/3, missing Osborne’s original projection by a full 50 per cent, and one quarter above the original Darling projection

Conservative commentator believes in smacking because his instinct says so

Daniel Elton
9 February, 2012

According to Andrew Lilico at ConservativeHome, you don’t need to bother about the evidence when it comes to smacking. We beg to differ.

GOP enters the Santorum quagmire as a brokered convention looms

Daniel Elton
8 February, 2012

With former Pennsylvanian Sentor winning a clean sweep of three state contests last night in the race to be the Republican nominee to be President, it appears the GOP has a real problem. A brokered convention looms.

Introducing George’s Marvellous Deficit Calculator

Daniel Elton
20 January, 2012

With George’s Marvellous Deficit Calculator you can predict the deficit in 2012/3 from growth in 2012

The British Empire – subsidising Republican presidential candidates since 2007

Daniel Elton
19 January, 2012

U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney an awful lot of his wealth and income away from the yes of the American Treasury and in the Cayman Islands – international tax haven and overseas british territory, or in old-fashioned language, colony of the British Empire.

Employment minister Chris Grayling does not appear to understand his own disability reforms

Daniel Elton
13 January, 2012

Employment minister Chris Grayling says goverenment is not going to means test benefits for those never able to work – but that’s exactly waht they intend to do.

We need to save manufacturing, but manufacturing won’t save us

Daniel Elton
13 January, 2012

Westminster fashionable talk dictates that we need to rebalance the economy towards manufacturing. But manufacturing is declining as a proportion of the world economy.

It’s the Big Society that’s being hit by the government’s economics

Daniel Elton
9 January, 2012

The Coalition wanted to end the Big State, and bring in the Big Society. We are ending up with neither, as charities shed more jobs than the public sector.

Boris has slammed Coalition welfare reforms – from the left

Daniel Elton
6 January, 2012

The most prominent politician to oppose the government welfare reform is – amazingly – Boris Johnson, taking on benefit scrounger myths and arguing against over-testing

“Sorry if you were offended” does not cut it, Diane

Daniel Elton
5 January, 2012

When Diane Abbott apologised for “any offence caused” over her racist comments, it was not a real apology – which is worse than none at all.

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