Alan Johnson As predicted in this blog earlier, neither Ed Balls nor his wife Yvette Cooper made it to Shadow Chancellor. Both have been given decent high profile jobs, but both would have been easy pickings for the Coalition if either had shadowed the Treasury. Alan Johnson, who I thought months ago would be a good […]
Lord Hutton and Public Sector Pensions Lord Hutton’s interim report is welcome, but may cause anxiety among public sector workers. This is hardly to be wondered at since they have all been living in a fantasy world, which many, but not the majority, helped to create. There can be no future system which is based on […]
Falling House Prices The apparently alarming news from the Halifax that in September house prices took a record fall of 3.6%, is in fact a very good thing. While everyone argues about cuts in the part of the economy under the control of politicians, the state sector, there is a real economy rebuilding and reshaping […]
Ed Milliband’s Choice Now that the Shadow Cabinet has been elected, the Labour Leader has to make those chosen into a powerful opposition team, capable of harrying the Coalition in parliament, in the county and across the media. The new team needs to look like a new government in waiting. It must not look like the old defeated […]