June 2011

Economic Self-Harm: The Industrial Anti-Strategy

Submitted by Alex on Mon, 20/06/2011 - 23:04

The Financial Times's How to Spend It advocates buying a small northern industrial town for little Jonty's train set...hold on.

No. Actually, its Westminster Blog covers the decision to give the Thameslink contract to Siemens, with punch:

no romance without finance: sad donkeys everywhere!

Submitted by Alex on Sun, 12/06/2011 - 21:46

With all due respect, Duncan, isn't there a bit of a taste of Sad Donkeyism here? Think about it: if the confidence fairy is so sensitive that the £6bn in-year cuts and a lot of rhetoric was enough to chase her off, perhaps it wouldn't be so hard to reverse the effect. Either way it would surely be worth having a go.