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Labour's Economy Doing Badly

January 28, 2009 10:42 PM

Pound plunges to new low against the euro Independent 12th December 2008

Pound 'buying less than a Euro' BBC 15th December 2008

Brown suffers as pound slides Financial Times 16th December 2008

Taxpayers face new pain as Gordon Brown's bank bail-out fails to stop credit crunch Telegraph 17th December 2008

"We had ten years of record growth when I was PM. I have, unfortunately, come to the conclusion it was luck." Tony Blair in The Sun 2nd January 2009

Brown goes from boom to bust Independent 9th January 2009

The business world is losing confidence in Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling amid growing evidence that the recession will last much longer than the Treasury predicted… Independent 9 January 2009

Former trade minister Lord Digby Jones says VAT cut 'was never going to work' Daily Mail 9th January 2009

Gordon Brown's flagship VAT cut was branded ' pointless', 'fatuous' and doomed to failure from the start by a string of senior former Labour ministers yesterday. Daily Mail 9th January 2009

SAINSBURY'S chief executive yesterday panned the Government's £12.5billion VAT cut - and said the money should have gone on creating jobs. Justin King said Chancellor Alistair Darling's move to boost high street takings was "ill-conceived". Sun 9th January 2009

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