28 June 2010: Britain's car industry can no longer rely on taxpayer 'emergency' bailouts, new Business Secretary Vince Cable warned today. He said:'We don't want to go around the country waving a cheque book.'
29 June 2010: Nick Clegg outlines £1bn fund for areas hit by cuts: The government says it is creating a £1bn fund to help English regions which depend on the public sector for jobs.
Notwithstanding the fact that increasing public spending in certain areas to compensate them for the fact that public spending in those areas will be cut...
Snowy
16 minutes ago
4 comments:
Well spotted Mark.
In re the car industry you should have heard Richard Parry-Jones (a motor indutry lobbyist) on Today yesterday banging on about how it was important to keep these subsidies coming as they were 'necessary' for 'investment' in 'green technology' and all the other bollocks.
S, ta.
L, let's just cut VAT and Employer's NIC. That'll help the car industry more than anything.
I'm a Lib Dem. I bought a car under the scrappage scheme.
Does this mean I will have give my car back or do I have to join Labour?
Perhap Nick & Vince could write back and let us know.
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