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Third time lucky for the Germans? Beware the new ‘auditors’.

So now Germany is telling the spineless Cameron what to do on a referendum.  (Telegraph, 18 Nov).

Cameron looks increasingly like a modern Neville Chamberlain.  Appeasement of the Germans for fear of causing trouble didn’t work the first time and it won’t work this time.

His lack of leadership, and the Tories’ refusal to let [...]

Desperate Cameron plays the 'lower, lower!' game…

He never gives up, does he? Tory ‘call me Dave’ Cameron – descended from King William IV – really thinks that the way to curry favour with the British public is to play the ‘lower, lower!’ game on bank bonuses.  Dave is trying to underbid the government on the banks’ bonus payout shambles, which just [...]