I owe a debt to Slogger Stuart, who notes that:
In his interview on Channel 4 News on Wednesday Night, Ed Balls told Cathy Newman:
“I had no role at all in the Co-op bank’s merger with Britannia… That’s a Tory smear, it’s entirely untrue.”
Yet in this blogpost written in September 2010, Balls claimed credit for the deal:
“I was also able to give the Treasury’s support for a new Private Members Bill that led to the creation of the first ever ‘super-mutual’ bringing Britannia Building Society and the Co-op Bank together in the interests of customers, rather than the banking elite.”
Hoist by his own facade, as they say.
In the same vein, Pater Tenebrarum draws my attention to this common sense:
Switching off all nuclear plants in Germany on account of a tsunami in Japan wasn’t only a bad idea because Germany is a lot less tsunami-prone than Nippon. It was a bad decision because it was made in the heat of the moment, an ad-hoc surrender to an age old Green Party demand that made very little economic sense. It also made little sense from a safety perspective…..since Germany remains surrounded by countries that do not feel the same urge to decommission all their nuclear power plants at the drop of a hat.
German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has now more or less admitted that the policy is on the verge of failure – and that the subsidisation of green energy is drawing to a close. He announced in a recent speech that the country’s once highly ballyhooed transformation to renewable energy, the so called Energiewende, a model that has been adopted by a number of countries worldwide, is “on the verge of failure“.
And finally, 1960s crooner Andy Williams points out Labour’s announcement that they have suspended one of their council candidates after he was accused of defrauding his own council; that LibDem councillor Ajit Atwal is still a candidate for May despite being photographed with an AK47; and a recent Tory council candidate was revealed to have been a past member of the BNP.
An anagram of Ajit Atwal is a jail twat. The political candidate is a varietal animal, and yet at the same time predictably twattish.
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