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New Regulations Over Lending To be Announced

This week will see announcements made by the UK’s financial regulator, the Financial Services Authority, with regards to mortgage lending. Regulations over lending are to be tightened up to make sure that lenders are only giving out loans to those that ca... Read >
Author: louiseward

Business insurance - renewal premiums in 2011

In the UK, in 1997, we saw a change of government. The Labour party, or New Labour as it was known, swept to power with a huge majority. With this mandate from the country they set about making many changes which led to consistent year on year growth. We ... Read >
Author: Jack Brown

New Labour Shadow Chancellor Made Mistakes On His Expenses

Ed Balls is married to Yvette Cooper, and together they were actually the first husband and wife team to serve at the same time in the UK government. In May 2005, when Ed Balls became the elected Member of Parliament for Normanton, Miss Cooper "flipped... Read >
Author: UK Tax Refunds

Ex Pm Gordon Brown Criticises Leaders Who Justify War Policy With Religious Faith

Ex Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been desribed in Blair's memoirs as having no "emotional intelligence" and as "maddening"! Many folks wonder if he (Brown) has had a Charisma by pass operation particularly the poor Labour supporter he called a bigot ... Read >
Author: UK Tax Refunds

The New Metal Rabbit Year

By Jon Sandifer, FSSA This year the Lunar Chinese New Year occurs one day before the Chinese Solar New Year on 4 February. The former marks the start of the Metal Rabbit Year under the Four Pillars System of astrology; the latter marks the start of a 7... Read >
Author: JonSandifer

Tony Blair War Inquiry

I ask my self would I have invaded Iraq if I had been the PM at the time? Well, of course, I was not the PM but first I would have explored all possible means of finding an effective solution with out a war. With diplomacy, technology and intelligence ... Read >
Author: UK Tax Refunds

Is The Labour Party Finished?

Why should voters engage with the Labour Party after 13 years in power ending with the biggest recession in living memory? The party seems to have completely lost its way beyond all understanding. As we all know the previous leader Gordon Brown app... Read >
Author: UK Tax Refunds

Labour's Failed Promises

Labour has very many broken promises to explain for during its period in office. Their record over the previous thirteen years has various failings underneath the surface of their publicity machine. Our previous Prime Minister Brown went to Portuga... Read >
Author: UK Tax Refunds

Milibands New Shadow Chancellor

Labours new shadow chancellor, Ed Balls can justly claim that he has plenty of experience at HM Treasury and, after all, he was Gordon Brown's closest and perhaps only true political ally. So close indeed that Gordon Brown when Prime Minister considere... Read >
Author: UK Tax Refunds

Ed Miliband Wants To Work With Nick Clegg

Ed Miliband the Labour leader recently stated that Nick Clegg was a "perfectly nice guy" who had made the wrong decision by forming a Coalition Government with the Conservative party. I really wonder what planet Ed Miliband is from as Nick Clegg showed... Read >
Author: UK Tax Refunds

Who controls the media? : A Level Citizenship Studies

A Levels are often stressful to study for, with the added pressure of which topics will come up in the final exam. This is one of the topics covered in study preparation materials for the A Level in Citizenship Studies. This article discusses the UK Media... Read >
Author: K.McAvoy

Ed Miliband Pact With The Lib Dems

Miliband has called the decision by the Liberal Democrat's to form a coalition with the Conservative party as a "tragic mistake" and suggests that they should join forces with the Labour party on matters of common interest. I really am very puzzled wha... Read >
Author: UK Tax Refunds

The Effects of Climate Change on Indian Farming Show That it's Time for Global Co-operation

Copyright (c) 2011 Alison Withers Former UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, within months published a book on what he believes needs to be done to avoid another catastrophic 2008-style global economic meltdown. In Beyond the Crash, Brown argues strong... Read >
Author: Ali Withers

Ed Miliband Re Writes History

Ed Miliband has stated that the Labour Party of which he is the new leader after Gordon Brown should not take the blame for the gigantic debt mountain that Great Britain currently has. I wonder who he thinks is to blame then? It was his very own pa... Read >
Author: UK Tax Refunds

Selling Your Business A Tool To Reduce Capital Gains Taxes

Business owners and management teams that are contemplating a sale of their company are now evaluating the impact that the 'timing of sale' has on the net proceeds received, as a result of the upcoming 33% capital gains tax increase. Many business owners ... Read >
Author: Stacy Wallace

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