UK economy: Our competitiveness is in danger
Updated: 2012-09-30 12:58:28
: Home News News UK economy : Our competitiveness is in danger News UK economy : Our competitiveness is in danger 30 09 2012 11:58 webmaster 63 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Roger Helmer MEP I've been banging on for some time about the threat to British competitiveness from the high price of energy . nbsp We now have the third highest energy prices of any developed economy , after Italy and Japan . nbsp Meantime how many times have I typed it , and said it America benefits from cheap shale gas and China exploits cheap coal . nbsp But because this is one of the biggest problems we're facing and because the government doesn't seem to have noticed it yet I make no apology for returning to the . subject I was shocked by an article a couple of days back from the pen of Richard Blackden He cites
Downing Street couldn’t be clearer about an In/Out referendum. It should happen as soon as possible, says the prime minister's spokesman, because businesses need to know whether or not to plan on the basis of secession: “uncertainty has a detrimental effect on the economy”. As for the question on the ballot paper, that's equally [...]
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I suppose it's possible to spend five years at Eton and not know what Magna Carta means. Winston Churchill once translated a piece of Latin in the House of Commons 'for the benefit of any Old Etonians who may be present'. It's even conceivable that you could take a First in PPE without stumbling across [...]
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Suppose the Government decided to boost the economy by paying specially trained squads of young people to go through town centres smashing shop windows. It might defend its policy on several superficially plausible grounds. As well as directly tackling unemployment – taking young people off the street and giving them an income and a sense [...]
Conservatives, while often gloomy in their political outlook, tend to be warm and merry in their personality. I’ve just spent the weekend in Oxford with 120 young activists from around Europe, and found myself lifted by their optimism. They came from across the continent, from Iceland and the Faroe Islands to Turkey and Moldova. There [...]
Home News News UKIP launches new energy policy News UKIP launches new energy policy 21 09 2012 10:08 webmaster 113 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds UKIP launches major energy policy statement seeks lower energy prices , rejects wind power as expensive and . inefficient Today at the Party's annual Conference in Birmingham Town Hall in the UK , UKIP's Spokesman on Industry and Energy Roger Helmer MEP is launching a major Energy Policy Statement on behalf of the Party , entitled Keeping the Lights On : How UKIP would prevent the impending electricity shortfall PDF It argues that the theory of man-made climate change is unproven and implausible , and that even if the theory were valid , the costs of the Climate Change Act and other measures designed to reduce climate change will greatly exceed any
Almost no politician – other than Ken Clarke, obviously – admits to being against a referendum on the EU. Yet, oddly, we never seem to hold one. It’s easy enough to see why. Politicians dislike referendums, but like winning elections, and understand that there is massive public support for a vote on the EU. They therefore play [...]
The blogs editor doesn’t much like it when I use this space to plug my engagements, so I’ll keep this brief. If you’re free on Saturday, come to what promises to be a superb political conference in Windsor. Speakers include Roger Scruton, Tim Montgomerie, Toby Young, Matt Elliot, Syed Kamall and me. Windsor is an [...]
Home News News The political class will try to con you again over the EU News The political class will try to con you again over the EU 18 09 2012 15:08 webmaster 59 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Nigel Farage MEP Daily Express THE British establishment is quite prepared to doctor the record when it suits them last week's Hillsborough revelations showed that . It can be decades before the truth is dragged from our political class . There is no subject on which this is truer than Britain's membership of the European . Union Whether it's Whitehall suppressing key papers or British governments of all stripes issuing misleading statements and using weasel words , we now know that key information has long been . suppressed This matters particularly now because EU Commission President Barroso has
Nick Clegg has a low opinion of his fellow countrymen. True, he withdrew his claim that opponents of same-sex marriage were 'bigots' – though contriving to do so in a way that seemed at once sly and half-arsed. But he stands by his assertion that Eurosceptics are 'infantile'. Around 45 per cent of the population [...]
The European Parliament is back in full session, carrying on as if nothing untoward were taking place beyond its walls. José Manuel Durão Barroso is calling for federalism and a new world order. MEPs are regulating private industries whose workings they barely understand. Their chief target in this session is the financial services sector, which [...]
Earlier this week saw President Barroso’s State of the Union address down in Strasbourg. Excitement clearly peaked in our office (if not the rest of Europe with the exception of some in the UK press) with talk of Banking Unions and, dare I even utter the word as a Brit,”federation”. We even felt moved to produce [...]
We hope you had a peaceful Summer and are looking forward to what is sure to be a very busy end to 2012! In preparation for the annual “Autumn onslaught” – or perhaps to take your mind off it –Grayling Brussels is pleased to present you with its latest edition of Espresso. In this week’s [...]