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“In Lambeth last month, 60 per cent of affected tenants voted down a £440m scheme; the turnout for the ballot was 73 per cent”
“top 5 per cent of finalists feel they are worth in excess of £25,000 in their first year in work”
“the class of 2001, the first to face tuition fees for their entire degrees, will leave being, on average, £15,000 in the red”
“Oxford graduates can expect to earn in excess of £2,000 more on average, for example, than those Cardiff graduates in their first year of work; this rises to a £10,000 gap within five years”
“The whole crisis has cost the Treasury more than £4bn.”
“He would send $2.4bn of federal funds back to the folks at state”
“The public sector finances were in bad shape, standing at £26bn even though the economy had been growing steadily for four years.”
“We needed urgent disinflationary measures to deal with both problems. We also had to raise £5bn in new taxes for the youth training programme – the New Deal – and other areas on which we had given specific manifesto commitments.”
“The outgoing Tory chancellor, Kenneth Clarke, had refused Treasury and Bank of England advice to raise interest rates on four occasions.”
“I paid £900 up front, which covers the whisky, warehousing and insurance for ten years...”
“...making an all-in cost of about £4,000...”
“The state pockets at least 66 per cent of the price of a bottle of whisky...”
“Current SMWS prices suggest my cask has a market value of anything from £9,000 to £12,000.”
“It is growing by something between 7 and 9 per cent a year.”
“Its unemployment, at around 16 per cent in the early 1990s, is now less than 4 per cent.”
“Ireland’s inflation rate has zipped upwards, from less than 3 per cent in the spring to between 6 and 7 per cent now”
“Strauss-Kahn had to give up his top ministry last year over allegations of dubious personal bookkeeping. [...] He received the video, he acknowledges, from Mery’s lawyer, who happened to be an old assistant of his. It also happened that th…”
“a 10% rise in the basic state pension of £67.50 a week”
“Occupational pensions – the outstanding welfare success of the past century, according to the most recent pensions green paper – deliver, on average, £33 a week.”
“a recently retired single pensioner picks up £44 a week from their occupational pension”
“while pensioners over 75 receive an average of just £28.”
“The current average payment is £53 a week for single male pensioners”
“and £27 for females.”
“The recently retired gain, on average, £24 a week”
“while the over-75s pick up £12 a week.”
“the annuity market now delivers half the weekly pension gained a decade ago”
“a new level of attendance allowance (say, £10 a week), paid automatically to every pensioner aged 75”
“and a slightly larger one (say, £15 a week) for pensioners aged 80 or over”
“One reason is that the real cost of car use today is exactly what it was in 1974; meanwhile, real disposable incomes have risen by 80 per cent.”
“It might have helped to maintain the green fig leaf for this tax had any of the £10bn in additional taxes extracted from us actually been spent on the environment.”
“the Co-operative Bank, whose transformation over the past ten years has been based on the promotion of ethical values and co-operative principles – an example of how co-operation can become a strong selling point.”
“Mandelson’s £373,000 loan to bankroll his distressful housing problem in London.”
“unemployment figures have dropped two points from 11.5 to 9.5 per cent in the past 12 months.”
“£198.11 per week gross”
“One in five of the town’s long-term unemployed has been out of work for more than two years.”
“North South Divide. The Unacceptable 10.2 per cent Unemployment in Hartlepool”
“And its unemployment figures have dropped two points from 11.5 to 9.5 per cent in the past 12 months.”
“the one about new Labour’s failure, despite £400m of Tory and Labour government investment in the region, none of which has got the thousands of Labour heartland supporters off the dole.”
“over the past three years.”
“At last year’s annual meetings”
“In 1913, the UK’s ratio of exports and imports to GDP (44.7 per cent) was the highest in the world, way ahead of its main competitors.”
“the UK was also the biggest exporter of capital: between 1890 and 1914, it exported on average 4.6 per cent of GDP a year, more than three times the level of France or Germany.”
“By 1995, Britain once again had the highest ratio of trade to GDP (at 42.6 per cent). The next highest was Germany (at 38.7 per cent).”
“The UK’s export of capital in the period 1990-96 (2.6 per cent of GDP a year) was exceeded only by Germany’s (at 2.7 per cent).”
“By 1997, we had the second-largest inward stock of foreign direct investment in the G7 (22.5 per cent of GDP), surpassed only by Canada.”
“UK pension funds, in 1993, held 27 per cent of their assets abroad, compared to 3 per cent in Germany, 4 per cent in the US and 14 per cent in Japan.”
“Our commercial banks, in 1996, had nearly half their assets invested abroad; French banks had fewer than a third, and the banks of most other G7 countries were around half the French level.”
“Its economic growth tops that of all its major European partners, Britain included.”
“A once dire unemployment rate (at its worst, twice our own) is coming down in leaps and bounds.”
“Fabius has been in office not six months and here he is posting a new direction for France – a F120bn (£12bn) tax cut over three years affecting everyone, including a shaving of the top rate of income tax for the richest, a reduction in bu…”
“It all amounts, Fabius boasts, to France’s biggest tax break in 50 years.”
“Only 25 of the world’s 200 countries produce capital in sufficient quantities to benefit from the division of labour in expanded global markets.”
“De Soto estimates that, in countries such as Peru and Egypt, the assets of eight out of ten people are excluded from the formal economy.”
“in Egypt, it is worth 55 times as much as all investment ever recorded (including the Suez Canal and the Aswan Dam)”
“in Haiti, it is worth 150 times all investment.”
“De Soto estimates that the value of real estate held, but not legally owned, by the poor of the developing world and former communist nations is £6.3 trillion”
“20 times as much as all foreign direct investment since 1989”
“46 times as much as all World Bank and IMF loans to developing countries”
“almost as much as the total value of all the companies listed on the main stock exchanges of the world’s 20 most developed countries, including those in New York, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, Paris and Milan.”
“£50bn – the equivalent of the proceeds of doubling the standard rate of income tax for a year.”
“£22.5bn that he had not been expecting.”
“this would still cost only a little more than £2bn.”
“Early in the next parliament, the government could take delivery of a one-off windfall of £50bn – the equivalent of the proceeds of doubling the standard rate of income tax for a year.”
“the auction in April of the frequencies for “third generation” mobile phones, which yielded a somewhat bemused Chancellor £22.5bn that he had not been expecting.”
“There are about 90 million television sets and video recorders in the country. Even if every one of them were to be converted at government expense, this would still cost only a little more than £2bn – small change out of £50bn.”
“£137m that is “frittered away” by Britons every day on needless knick‑knacks”
“£76m falls from the fingers of feckless, spendthrift blokes”
“he goes out and buys a new £100,000 sports car”
“Burton bought Elizabeth Taylor a $1.1m diamond in 1969”
“he spent $4m on flop investments, $20,000 on furs and jewellery, $20,000 on hotel rooms, $25,000 on a personal Wall Street ticker‑tape machine and $550,000 on building a steam‑powered motor car”
“Gordon Brown announced the release of £1.8bn in last month’s spending review – Wales’s biggest-ever single settlement.”
“That will trigger a further £1.2bn of Euro “Objective One” aid to be targeted at the Valleys and West Wales”
“That will trigger a further £1.2bn of Euro “Objective One” aid to be targeted at the Valleys and West Wales – among the poorest areas in Europe.”
“one newspaper pays £1,000 a go to stand up rumours or obtain that vital piece of information needed to get a story off the ground.”
“£100 will do nicely.”
“he paid only £5,000 in 1998-99”
“Who made the phone calls to the Inland Revenue on 9 June and 23 June about the tax bills of Labour’s millionaire fundraiser Lord (Michael) Levy”
“just before it was revealed that he paid only £5,000 in 1998-99”
“costing 2.5bn lire (£800,000) a month to keep going.”
“the $15bn of third-world debt on the way to being forgiven, rather than the $100bn promised in Cologne”
“The Chancellor’s £40bn – no, sorry, £43bn – “spending spree””
“the 1972 recession brought unemployment to the previously unheard-of (postwar) level of one million”
“spending on unemployment, social security and debt interest now absorb only 17 per cent of the government’s outgoings, as against 42 per cent a few years ago.”
“£6.99”
“Investment on the scale promised – £100bn over the next decade – risks providing a way for people to escape towns and cities, rather than a means to create delight within them.”
“A tram scheme costs anything up to £350m. Providing safe walking and cycling routes to a school costs an average of £100,000. A pedestrian crossing costs around £18,000 and a road hump costs £1,500.”
“when the 1972 recession brought unemployment to the previously unheard-of (postwar) level of one million”
“spending on unemployment, social security and debt interest now absorb only 17 per cent of the government’s outgoings, as against 42 per cent a few years ago”
“Last year, the Ontario economy grew 5.7 per cent, Canada’s 4.5.”
“Growth in France, in particular, is high, at 3.5 per cent annualised”
“unemployment is zipping downwards, falling under 10 per cent for the first time since the mid-1990s”
“Warning bells started ringing in March 1998, when Waterstone’s merged with the HMV-owned Dillons, creating a £550m debt mountain.”
“$21.5bn”
“$673m”
“$5,160,770, for the army $4,060,000 for the police”
“In the current financial year, overall public spending will rise by 5 per cent in real terms, twice as fast as the underlying growth in the economy”
“The much-vaunted extra £21bn for health and £19bn for education, announced in 1998 as part of the first Comprehensive Spending Review”
“With public spending totalling £374bn this year, overall spending has to rise by more than £9bn a year to compensate for higher inflation.”
“Of the £5.2bn raised through the windfall tax on the utilities, by April of this year the government had managed to spend only £800m on its flagship New Deals for the jobless.”
“Last year, spending on the flagship regeneration programme, the New Deal for Communities, undershot by half, and spending on Sure Start, a programme aimed at pre-school children, may come in at only a tiny fraction of the £81m budgeted for…”
