Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Wednesday 19 March 2008
Are The Pennies Dropping At Northern Rock?
The job losses there are because of EU state aid rules. Of course, some accommodation would probably have been found if the jobs had been at Canary Wharf; the London financial services world has never been able to comprehend the existence of a major institution headquartered in Newcastle. But even so, this whole affair should kill off one and for all the incomprehensible fantasy that the EU is any sort of Socialist project.
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