The wrong sort of rain © Matthew Buck Hack Cartoons
A Culture and Media ministerial shaped bodyguard named Jeremy, may not be enough to shelter the PM from some of the stuff heading in his direction after the UK went back into recession last week.
A Culture and Media ministerial shaped bodyguard named Jeremy, may not be enough to shelter the PM from some of the stuff heading in his direction after the UK went back into recession last week.
The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe 16th April 1712 Episode 99
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Tobias Grubbe Episode 98 - 2nd April 1712
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The difference between the rhetoric and reality is at the very heart of communication and politics as the PM is presently being reminded.
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 26th March is published at this window or, click the picture. His patron Journalisted from The Media Standards Trust
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The UK is experiencing another of its periodic party political funding scandals. Broadly, this is because none of the ‘major parties’ any longer hold the allegiance of large numbers of the population for a transparent subscription model of funding.
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered his budget on 21st March. Overall, the IFS declared it ‘fiscally neutral’ or as delivering as much in gift as was taken in turn.
This strategic position probably being unavoidable considering the chronic lack of growth in the national economy since the last election and the decisions made in the Chancellor’s Strategic Spending Review of 2010.
Arguments continue to rage about where fault lies for the the lack of growth in the economy. New hashtags of political outrage have entered the language as a result of the cuts and freezes resulting from Osborne’s SRA and the budgets implementing it – #Grannytax (removal of OAP tax privilege), #Pietax (VAT on hot food). Clearly there are many more to come, an example being this morning’s announcement of a proposal for a minimum price per units of alcohol.
One of the more intriguing personal subtexts to the performance of the budget is the presumed ambition of the chancellor to inherit the PM’s job in due course. After describing the budget as ‘without economic significance’ Martin Wolf in the FT thought he saw this game well afoot. Happily for me it also matched my own drawing of the event.
© Michael Cross and Matthew Buck Hack cartoons
The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 19th March 1712 is published at this window or click the picture to see. His patron Journalisted from The Media Standards Trust
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