Comments on: The pre-budget report: bullies in the playground

By: ann

ann — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:34:29 +0000

Thanks Martin….compliments are always welcome. Always a useful antidote to the brickbats. Ann

Martin Hyams — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:50:24 +0000

Thanks Ann for a brilliant and insightful summary. It’s refreshing to finally come

across an analysis based on facts rather than myths and prejudice. You help to keep me sane! Keep up the good work.

Jo Jordan — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:14:50 +0000

Thank you. Clearest rendition that we have had so far. Will print. Will tweet.

Please give us

more.

Jim Smith — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:39:14 +0000

What

we need is an open debate on the way forward for the UK. We must start by admitting the banking sector has become too big and out of control for a

country the size of the UK. Most moderate UK citizens want to retain the City of London’s skills set, and pre-eminence in the European Union, but

not at the expense of sensible regulation.

Hopefully this is what this crisis will produce. A chastened, and smaller, City which realises

it’s eminence is largely due to it’s geographical position on the borders of the European Union. In this sense Sarkozy’s attacks on the City may

in a perverse way actually help the City. It wiil be forced to re-assess it’s too strong links to the “anglo-saxon” US, and too weak links to the

“social model” European Union,

Ann Pettifor — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:36:03 +0000

Thank you for this Larry.And I am reminded too that Nigel Lawson, who has forgotten his own history, both increased unemployment – and

government spending! Despite promising to do the reverse….

the.Duke.of.URL — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:11:53 +0000

Reading this, Ann, makes me think I am reliving the scathing critique Kaldor meted out to the government of the day, Thatcher’s, in

speeches to the House of Lords, and that was 30 years ago. The battle they want us to fight was tried and lost before. As Kaldor said then, the

Conservatives are like the Bourbons, they learn nothing and forget nothing.

Should we follow the cuts road, we may never get to that place

where we can say, akin to Martin Luther King so long ago, Safe at last, safe at last; thank god, we’ll soon be safe at last.