Week of Oct 21 – Oct 27 – US Daily Review

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Looking at the news and opinion out of London each day.

10-27-14

David Cameron has no choice but to defy Brussels

If the European Commission had come to Britain demanding another £90 million because this country’s economy had performed better than expected, it would have been a political headache for David Cameron. The money would have been handed over and Ukip would have slapped it on to its election leaflets.

Cameron, victim of Merkel’s problems…

…and architect of some of his own. What will become of the renegotiation now?

10-26-14

How Cameron could make the EU a winning issue (and why he won’t)

No, I don’t really think he’ll campaign for withdrawal. But that doesn’t make Eurosceptics’ options any less clear

Findings among the over-50s should make essential reading for our leaders

Who is sovereign? That “Ship money” moment?

Parliament in the UK established its power by insisting that it should approve taxation before it was imposed by the King or Queen. When the Crown needed more money he had to summons Parliament. Parliament insisted on the redress of its grievances before voting the monarch the money he wanted.

Alas, poor Johann Lamont: a symptom, not the cause, of Labour’s decline in Scotland

It was the wee things that did it. Things like vision, inspiration, confidence and all the other details that coalesce into that strange something called leadership. There are many types of leader and leadership is another of those things easier to see than define but all successful leaders share one essential quality: they can choose a hill and persuade their followers that’s the place they must die.

10-25-14

Cameron: We’re not paying this EU bill on the 1st of December

A visibly riled David Cameron railed at the European Commission’s ‘completely unacceptable’ behaviour in demanding another £1.7 billion from Britain by the 1st of December. He warned that he certainly won’t be paying this bill then, and that anyone who thinks he will ‘have another think coming’.

Sex, drugs and Brussels law (and Cameron)

The EU’s demand for £1.7billion raises a number of essential questions. Not least, what can Cameron do now?

It’s time to shave that beard: the decade of the hipster is over

Fashion cults are nothing new, but this one was exceptionally silly and unoriginal

The Bank shifts its ground on QE

The explanations of the purpose of QE and its method working have changed over the years of its use. In the second quarter of 2009, explaining why it had embarked on a large £200 bn programme of QE

10-24-14

A tale of two Tory primaries. Rochester, 2014: turnout, 5700. Gosport, 2010: turnout, 12500.

The figure for the Kent seat is a disappointment for CCHQ – but it’s not disastrous in itself, and will help build a stronger voter base for now and next May.

The UK should decline to pay the extra EU tax

We do not impose extra tax on people for past years after the year is settled.

The NHS Wales disaster vindicates Tony Blair, not David Cameron

As someone who believes that a Labour government would be a calamity for Britain, I ought not to mind the recent fuss about NHS Wales. Yes, it is a disaster – as the Daily Mail has been cleverly highlighting. And it has been run by Labour for 15 years.

Who should lead the Metropolitan Party?

It has plenty of supporters among Conservative journalists. But why not among Conservative politicians?

10-23-14

The bias in Osborne’s family policy is a gift to Farage

Whether parents work in the labour market or not is none of the Chancellor’s business – as long as they aren’t claiming welfare benefits.

The UK needs a wage rise

This is a potentially popular campaign which need not be the monopoly of the Unions. The main aim of Conservative policy is to encourage and foster an economic recovery which will raise real wages and living standards for the many. I am all in favour of people getting on in the world, being promoted, getting pay awards for their performance and for the value of the work they bring to the company or institution.

10-22-14

The NHS is not a great election issue for Labour

Labour’s lack of ambition in going for a core vote 35% strategy is matched by the dangers of making the NHS the centrepiece of that approach. So far the more they mention the NHS the more their vote stays in the low 30s.

John Humphrys and the BBC’s disdain for market capitalism

Last week’s market tremor, provoked by renewed fears of eurozone stagnation and a slowdown in global growth, was serious enough for IMF chief Christine Lagarde to feel the need to pronounce, in her most soothing tone, that it was ‘maybe at this stage an over-reaction’.

Real public spending increases rapidly, especially on capital investment

Yesterday’s figures for September 2014 and the first half of the 2014-15 fiscal year show spending and borrowing on the rise.

Across The Pond is edited daily by Steve Parkhurst. Steve is a political consultant, a writer at his blog as well as a Senior Editor here at US Daily Review. Follow Steve on Twitter @SteveParkhurst

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