Green Politics
Lib Dem voters supportive of Budget – but with doubts over VAT & corp tax
Two polls of grassroots Conservative and Liberal Democrat members over the weekend have revealed Lib Dem dissatisfaction over VAT and corporation tax and that Chris Huhne is the least popular member of the Cabinet among Tory activists.
EU deal on capping bonuses will change the financial sector
Labour may have temporarily lost legislative power in Westminster, but Labour MEPs still have that power and used it to great effect last week, securing strict limits on upfront cash bonuses to ensure that bonuses are linked to long-term success rather than mere risk-taking.
G20 summit masks US-EU tensions on economic recovery
The G8 and G20 summits may have seemed a damp squib, but the final communiqué, always drafted so that everybody can go away saying that they’ve won, only masks the fundamentally different approaches to economic policy by the US and by European countries.
Balls: This was “the Budget from hell”
Ed Balls hit out at the Coalition Government for "the most unfair and regressive Budget in a generation" today, calling it "reckless and unfair".
Time to fix the food chain and prevent further rainforest destruction
Surprisingly the meat and dairy industry produces around 18 per cent of the world's climate-changing gases; cows, pigs and chickens in our factory farms are pumped full of high-protein feed to make them grow quickly and produce large yields.
Economic update – July 2010
George Osborne delivered his first budget on June 22nd, describing it as ‘unavoidable’, ‘fair’ and ‘progressive’. In fact, it was none of these. An ‘emergency’ budget was not needed, whether to calm financial markets or for any other reason.