Osborne facing same pressure as Green keeper
Friday 18th June 2010, 2:30PM BST.
NEXT week George Osborne will deliver the emergency Budget promised by the Conservatives in the run-up to the general election. Ernst & Young partner Graham Parrot, pictured, wonders if the UK’s emergency Budget will achieve the coalition government’s goal.
It comes the day before England’s last group game in the World Cup, one of the few things that might divert attention from what is a very important Budget for the UK, but also for us in Guernsey.
One thing we have learned already from the football is the importance of a safe pair of hands.
Perhaps the error shown around the world was caused by using a round ball, although it surely could not have helped using a pair of gloves borrowed from the late Kenny Everett.
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A quick question:
Does Mr Parrot write these pieces, or are they written and paraphrased by the sub editor?
I say that before any criticism is launched in any particular direction.
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Arnald
Just made a quick enquiry & can confirm that Graham Parrot does indeed write these articles in his own words. So, lace your boots up & get stuck in!
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Paul
My laces are always tied.
I just can’t be bothered anymore with anyone that doesn’t understand the truth.
Theft is theft.
De facto.
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Arnald
That would be the “truth” according to you and your idol (Murphy) would it? Where the local finance industry is instrumental in causing all the world’s problems blah blah blah……..
One man’s truth is another man’s deluded take on reality.
On the plus side, I’m pleased to hear you’re not bothering any more. About time.
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Phil
Is Guernsey’s finance industry “local”?
Clueless nonsense.
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Arnald
Of course it’s local – it employs people locally, creates revenue for the States locally etc etc.
The fact that we deal with worldwide jurisdictions does not mean that the Guernsey finance industry is not local. Using your warped thinking (that makes a change!) if I start a business selling decorative ormer shells and receive orders from 6 different countries, I’ve suddenly got a multi-national operation have I?
I think you ought to change your name to Daniel Kaffee.
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Well they have crucified the poor with 20% VAT hike and want to make people work to 70 even though they can retire on huge pensions at 55. Meanwhile Tony Blair amasses millions from his unethical Iraq/Afghanistan wars rather than languishing in prison.
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But Phil, don’t you see what you have just written? If, at any point in the chain that finds, decorates, ships, and sells your ‘ormer product’ is compromised at a societal level, just to make you richer; probably by fiddling with legislation that is lagging behind ‘ormer produce production and delivery’, would that not leave an opening for ‘opposition to ormer produce creation, delivery and vending’?
Like child sweatshops?
Or plastic bags?
There is no difference, only that we arrange for the rich to have their way regardlessto the cost to anyone else.
You may like it. I do not. I, therefore bang on about it.
It is not me that is absurd, mon vieux, it is you supporting sociopaths.
Get used to that, and your conscience withers about other important global issues.
Our lifeline is not local, it is a sham of companies that use our lacklustre political processes to force through legislation that suits them. It does not suit the voiceless majority, it suits the gobby and arrogant tiny minority.
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