Norfolk Blogger (Free subscription) | yesterday
Vince Cable has been interviewed by Iain Dale for this month's Total Politics magazine. The full interview is available to read HERE. I love his refreshing honesty in dealing with a question from Iain which seemed to imply that he was inconsistent. Vince, unlike most politicians, simply says that he was proved wrong by the extreme financial mess we were in and he changed his mind accordingly. If only...
Liberal England (Free subscription) | yesterday
Iain Dale: So you don't do what Ming Campbell used to do every morning when he was shaving and think: "God, I wish I'd stood against Charles Kennedy?" Vince Cable: No, absolutely not, I genuinely don't. I quite enjoyed the 'acting leader' period, and did quite well, but I've got a very full role. Read the whole thing in Total Politics .
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | yesterday
In this month's interview for Total Politics , I spent an hour with LibDem Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable. You can read the full interview HERE , but here's an extended extract. When you first got into Parliament, what was your ambition? Having got in aged 54, I didn't see it primarily in terms of climbing a greasy pole to the top. Like most newly elected MPs with small majorities, my ambition was...
Twickenham Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | yesterday
• . . Iain Dale: WHAT do you make of David Cameron? Do you have much to do with him?
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The following article was written by Vince Cable, and appears in today’s Mail on Sunday: Parliament’s reputation has been badly tarnished this year. The magnificence of the Palace of Westminster has stood in stark contrast to the happenings within. The Queen’s Speech struck a horribly false note and made us look more than ever like a banana [...]
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Lib Dems’ deputy leader Vince Cable is the cover star of the December issue of Total Politics, trailing a feature interview with the Tory blogger we all love to name-check, Iain Dale. Here’s a taster: Do you see the Liberal Democrats as a centre-left party? No, I don’t use that description. I know some of my [...]
Wanted truthful parliament in the UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
1705 GMT London Saturday 21 November 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. AN AADHIKARonline investigative report [1] The malaise of unaccountability and corruption that the Tower Hamlets Council-controlled 'free' 'newspaper' 'East End Life' represents has now reached the Borough of Lambeth. According to a report carried on the ITV London Tonight programme last night [Friday 20 November 2009], the disease...
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Times ... The largest banks are too big to fail — and thus are too big. The status quo is unsustainable and bad for UK plc. Even those of us who want the financial service sector to flourish draw the line at the commercial risk of individual bank failures becoming sovereign risk for the UK. Seems eminently sensible to me, and very applicable to Ireland. All the talk about the "systemic importance"...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
At times of crisis, Britain needs political heroes, epic figures to guide it through the wreckage and towards a more hopeful future. In the 1940s Churchill played the role of the great titan. After the war Attlee and Bevan became heroic figures. In the late 1970s enough of the country turned to Margaret Thatcher to ensure she won a series of landslide general elections.
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
“There is a growing danger that markets will lose confidence in the UK,” said Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor. Commenting on the ONS figures and the OECD’s economic outlook report, Vince Cable said: “With public sector borrowing now at over 11 billion, it is clear that the UK finances are in a mess. “The OECD’s analysis [...]
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Government must become much more realistic about the costs of the projects it proposes,” said Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor.Commenting on the TaxPayers’ Alliance report ‘Out of Control: How the Government overspends on capital projects’, Vince Cable said: “The Government’s track record on managing budgets for capital projects is utterly...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
As budget deficit hits £11.4bn, economic thinktank expects a weaker upturn for Britain over next two years The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development today warned Alistair Darling that he has no scope to afford pre-election giveaways, as official figures revealed that last month was the worst October on record for the public finances. With the chancellor putting the finishing...
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Today's top ConHome features ToryDiary: Conservatives highlight the Labour threat to benefits for the disabled as the Government's Care Bill is savaged by its own peers Andrea Leadsom on Platform: Why Vince Cable's vengeful tax on bank profits would benefit nobody - and what we should be doing about the banks Seats and Candidates update: Daniel Gage defends himself over the issues
ConservativeHome's YourPlatform (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Andrea Leadsom is the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for South Northamptonshire and former head of Barclays' Investment Banks team. Vince Cable thinks that banks should be forced to cough up 10% of their profits to the Inland Revenue to help...
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Earlier this evening I spent an hour on LBC alongside LibDem MP Susan Kramer and Labour MP Emily Thornberry discussing the Queen's Speech. Never was so much hot air expounded over so little. Thornberry is an ultra loyalist and I expected her to defend the government's programme, but I was somewhat surprised when she was unable to explain how the government's Fiscal Responsibility Bill will work. She...
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