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Telegraph "Moody’s, which changed the rating of nine European sovereigns after the markets closed in America, said Britain was exposed to “any further deterioration in European economic conditions and financial landscape.” France and Austria were also warned that their AAA credit rating status had been changed to negative outlook. Moody’s guidelines state that a negative outlook could lead to a

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Christopher Booker,Telegraph "The latest contribution to this tragi-farce, it seems, is Sir Mervyn King’s decision to roll the printing presses and conjure a further £50 billion of imaginary money out of thin air. As Fraser Nelson explained in Friday’s Daily Telegraph, this will keep interest rates on annuities at rock-bottom, and thus rob Britain’s pensioners of an estimated £74 billion. So our

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Telegraph "The uncomfortable truth is that not even the experts know for sure. Britain has become a massive laboratory for the biggest experiment in money-printing the modern world has ever seen. There are only a handful of certainties: that debtors have it a little easier, that the banks are lending a little more freely. But pensioners are retiring with far lower incomes, and millions will be

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Independent "The response appeared divided along party lines: almost all the female MPs who protested were Labour, and almost all the women who defended the name and branding were Tories. This is a recurring theme: for many Labour women, themselves elected because of all-women shortlists, it is quotas that are the answer to equality. Women, it seems to them, are an oppressed minority, rather than

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Telegraph "The Bank's Monetary Policy Committee is set to announce on Thursday that it is expanding its Quantitative Easing programme from £275bn to £325bn."

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View here ED: Worth watching...

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Telegraph "In 2004, with Greece a member of the euro, the conjuring trick was becoming transparent. A new, centre-right government was elected, with Peter Doukas appointed Budget Minister. “I asked the senior staff of the ministry to give me details of the budget that had been passed the previous December,” says Doukas. “I said don’t worry about persecution or anything, just tell me the true

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Christopher Booker of The Sunday Telegraph "I recalled a piece I wrote in this column on January 29, 2009, just after Obama took office. It was headlined: “This is the sub-prime house that Barack Obama built”. As a rising young Chicago politician in 1995, no one campaigned more actively than Mr Obama for an amendment to the US Community Reinvestment Act, legally requiring banks to lend huge sums

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The International Forum for Responsible Media "The Internet is one of civilisation’s most innovative creations and while it cannot be used as a vehicle for criminal activity protected by an immunity of “freedom”, it should not be used as a vehicle for state censorship and heavy handed restrictions on the information it holds. Quite how the balance is going to be struck is a question even

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Yahoo News "Tony Blair pays just £315,000 tax on an income of £12 million. Robert Powell explains how he does it and looks at ways you can reduce your tax bill by following the former PM’s levy-restricting methods..."

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Telegraph "Official figures show that 45 per cent of students from European Union countries who were liable to start repaying loans had disappeared or were in arrears as of last April. The findings will raise concerns that many of the students, who qualify for subsidised Government loans to cover the cost of tuition fees, could effectively gain a degree for free. By contrast, only two per cent of

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Telegraph "A couple of days ago I posted on the heartwarming story of Firuta Vasile, 27 – the Roma woman with four children who came to Britain five years ago, claims not to have been able to find work except as a Big Issue seller, and currently snaffles in excess of £25,000 in benefits, courtesy of the British taxpayer. And who has just snaffled another £2,500 in housing benefit having argued –

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Telegraph "The figures are likely to reopen the debate over the generosity of the welfare system amid growing concerns that the country has become a destination for “benefit tourists”.

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Daily Mail "This week provided a series of deeply troubling pieces of evidence of Britain’s inability to control who lives here. In Walthamstow, east London, eight Moldovans occupied the family home of Janice Mason – but the police refused to help because squatting is a civil, not criminal, matter. The horrific case of Victor Akulic, who was convicted in Lithuania of raping a child, before

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Daily Mail "Britain has the highest level of debt among the major economies bar Japan, research has found. Over the past three years it has risen to more than 500 per cent of national output. The alarming rise since the height of the financial crisis has been fuelled by debt in the financial sector as people seek to borrow their way out of the economic slump, according to consultancy McKinsey.

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Mirror "The former PM and wife Cherie are building up a property empire and Mr Blair now plans to maximise his earnings over the next two years. .....His earnings this year alone could hit £15million, on top of the estimated £15million he has raked in since standing aside as PM in 2007. A ­further £15million next year through Mr Blair’s jobs, ­ speeches and expanding property empire would take

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Telegraph "It is easy to walk past the anonymous, Georgian townhouse in central London without giving it a second glance. But the five-storey building on Grosvenor Square, close to the American embassy, is home to a multi-million pound industry with tentacles that reach across the globe. ......In all, about 100 people are based there, although insiders say it is often much quieter because so

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Telegraph "Fears are mounting that Greece could be the first European country to default on its debt in 60 years, as the country gears up to salvage collapsed talks over bond repayments on Wednesday."

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Telegraph

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Daily Mail "France was tonight stripped of its coveted AAA credit rating in a crushing humiliation for Nicolas Sarkozy. Leading ratings agency Standard & Poor’s cut the French credit score by one notch to AA+ in a major setback to the President’s hopes of re-election. The downgrade – on Friday the 13th – came just a month after a bitter war of words broke out between Paris and London over the

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Daily Mail "Will Scotland – which, assuming that it took responsibility for its share of total UK debt, would start life £140billion in the red – be immediately faced with a Greek-style borrowing crisis? Crucially, how will it cope without the estimated £10billion-a-year subsidy it receives from the English taxpayer – money Mr Salmond uses to fund free care for the elderly and waive tuition fees?

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Daily Express "GORDON BROWN faces calls to stand down as an MP because he has been on money-spinning engagements around the world and barely working for his constituents. The Scottish Sunday Express can today reveal the jet-setting ex-Prime Minister earned £1million in 2011 and spent up to 100 days on trips pursuing his own private business. He had 33 long-haul engagements, including speeches to

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Daily Mail "For instance, one private company with a sole owner declared an income last year of £12  million, but paid just £315,000 in corporation tax, after writing off ‘administrative expenses’ of nearly £11  million. Shocking, is it not? The owner, a Mr Blair, apparently conducts his business operations across several continents through a network of companies, most of which escape having to

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Telegraph "Former Prime Minister Tony Blair channelled millions of pounds through a complicated web of companies and paid just a fraction in tax, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. ....Official accounts show a company set up by Mr Blair to manage his business affairs paid just £315,000 in tax last year on an income of more than £12 million. In that time, he employed 26 staff and paid them total

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Daily Mail "Migrant workers from the EU are keeping young Britons out of jobs, new figures suggest. Campaign group Migration Watch UK said statistics released today show the number of migrants working in the UK who were born in Eastern Europe rose by 600,000 since the so-called A8 countries joined the EU in May 2004 while youth unemployment rose by almost 450,000 in the same period. Sir Andrew

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ABC (Australia) "A new study shows Australia and New Zealand have the highest proportion of cannabis and amphetamine use in the world.The figures published by medical journal The Lancet show marijuana use in Australia is three times the global average, with amphetamine usage twice as common."

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YFO "This does not come as a surprise to anyone but here are some interesting graphs about the Spanish economy, published by The Atlantic. ......I have noticed that there are more Spanish youngsters working in various low-skill jobs in London than there had been for years."

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Christopher Booker,Telegraph "One faint consolation in recent months has been the sight (as broadcast on YouTube) of Nigel Farage, leader of Ukip and of the Freedom and Democracy group in the European Parliament, repeatedly standing up in its front row to rub in the inescapable realities of this disaster only a few feet from those currently responsible for it – Barroso, President Van Rompuy and

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YahooNews/Reuters "NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shaky Europe. Political gridlock. Volatile markets. Familiar themes for those who lived through 2011, and investors should be ready to revisit them next year.With a spiraling debt crisis in Europe, political upheaval around the world, and crumbling creditworthiness in major industrial nations, 2011 was a tough year to know where to invest. 2012 is unlikely

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Stuff NZ "A senior law professor is warning websites and Facebook users they must not publish the name of the teenager accused in connection with the Turangi attack on a five-year-old girl. The 16-year-old appeared in Taupo Youth Court yesterday. People commenting on some special interest websites have named the accused, with one of those comments also saying the name was all over Facebook.

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Daily Mail "A majority of economists put the possibility of a eurozone break-up at 30-40 per cent in 2012, according to the results of a BBC poll - and 20 per cent even state the eurozone will not exist in its current 17-member form next year. Nearly all of those polled predicted that Europe would return to recession in the new year as the continent struggles to get to grips with its debt crisis."

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Stuff NZ "Outside Taupo Youth Court no-one wants to give their name, inside most names have to remain secret. Everything about the accused is suppressed except this: he is 16, a male, and will be back in this room on January 12. He does not want to apply for bail. He wears a T-shirt and has bare feet.The victim is five and foreign, her family surrounded now by an aching love that renders $52,000

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Stuff NZ "The parents of the five-year-old European girl savagely attacked at a holiday park are relieved a Turangi teenager has been arrested. The 16-year-old boy will appear in court today charged with sexual violation, aggravated wounding and burglary.Injuries to the girl's head, face and body required four hours of surgery after the attack last Wednesday."

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Stuff NZ "The girl, believed to be from Belgium, was asleep with her 3-year-old brother in a caravan at Club Habitat holiday park when she was attacked between 10.10pm and 10.40pm last Wednesday.She needed four hours of surgery for injuries to her head, face and body." ----------------------- Hunt for campground child attacker widens "The attack at the Turangi holiday camp was discovered when

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Daily Mail "Speaking to London's Evening Standard, he said: 'They are basically becoming more and more aggressive. I find that worrying. 'Far from trying to settle in a grown-up way and having better and better relations with the Falkland islanders, they are upping the ante and becoming confrontational.' He added that he did not believe Argentina would launch another invasion, but that sending a

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Daily Mail #Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay vote for blockade to show solidarity #Falklands resident says: 'If we were Palestine, the EU would be up in arms' #Argentina reignited claim to territory last year after oil companies began looking for fossil fuels #Fishing vessels with UK licences already subjected to military searches off Argentina coast

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Telegraph "The sideshow of David Cameron’s veto will soon be upstaged by the single currency's combustion and the immolation of its weaker members’ economies. Confounded by the triumph of remorseless debt over political will, EU leaders have succumbed to collective delirium, promising that future government budgets will be “balanced or in surplus” and that annual structural deficits will “not

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Telegraph "It's in there, but you'll have to dig for it. Buried deep under many layers of self-exculpatory humbug, on p524, is the formula for Tony Blair's approach to political alchemy. You'll find it in the chapter about New Labour's disgraceful acceptance of illegal immigration during its first two terms in government. Heaping praise on himself for shutting down Opposition attacks over the

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Daily Mail *Nervous banks pulled £20bn out of France between July and September *Merkel says she wants to resist Sarkozy's plans to redraw EU rules *Ratings agency considering downgrading ratings of Italy, Spain, Ireland, Belgium, Slovenia and Cyprus *Standard & Poor’s puts France on warning that its AAA credit rating is at risk while Britain’s is 'stable'

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Daily Mail

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Telegraph "The EU treaty agreement reached by eurozone leaders last week isolated Britain and proposed a new 'fiscal compact’, but in reality it looks like just a 'lousy compromise’.

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Spectator "So leaving misconceptions and domestic politics aside, did Cameron ‘trip over his own red line’ by spending a veto without actually getting any specific safeguards in return? There is a risk. But the truth is that it all depends on what happens next. As dramatic as Cameron’s veto may seem now, I suspect it is merely one of many acts."

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Telegraph "Instead Cameron has achieved an outcome that I would previously have judged wholly impossible. He has led Britain into a position where it is outnumbered 26-1 in Europe, and yet retained the support of the fanatically pro-Brussels Liberal Democrats. On Friday night it was not just Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, and Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, who were

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Daily Mail #Only UK and Hungary certain to stay out of new grouping - and Sweden and Czech Republic may join them in two-tier EU #After 10 hours of talks 17 Eurozone members and six other countries decide to go ahead with a 'fiscal pact' #PM defiant as he declares: 'I had to pursue Britain's interests... I effectively wielded the veto' #French President Sarkozy says Cameron's

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AP/Yahoo News "BRUSSELS (AP) — The leaders of 23 European countries moved to tie their economies much closer together in a new treaty in their latest attempt to shore up the euro, but failed to get the four other European Union members, including Britain, to join in. ......The failure of the EU to get unanimous support for more stringent budgetary rules may rattle the foundations of a union

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WSJ "Indeed, the start of the U.K downturn can be dated almost precisely to Mr. King's public demand in the middle of August 2010 that banks start repaying the BOE and treasury's emergency funding facilities early. That forced banks to raise expensive debt, slashing margins, while restricting the availability and raise the price of new lending. The U.K. banking sector was dealt a further blow in

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Daily Mail "Nobody dares to tell the truth to their electorates: that the governments of Europe are embracing policies which are both wildly anti-democratic and cannot work. ....The truth is that the European financial crisis has laid bare the fact that Greece, together probably with Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Italy, are inherently unsuited to living within the financial discipline the euro

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Douglas Carswell MP (Commentator) ""An EU referendum would plunge Britain's economy into chaos" Not true. The British economy is in a mess because successive governments have spent way beyond what the tax base can sustain. Governments of all three parties have acted as though they could engineer growth using monetary (and to some extent fiscal) stimulus. It has not worked, instead sowing the

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commentarymagazine "The second scandal involved the exposure of Johann Hari​, the celebrated young columnist and media personality, as a plagiarist, fabricator, and user of Internet aliases to carry out smear campaigns against his enemies and to promote his own career. The Hari affair provoked less consternation—though it arguably offers as troubling a picture of the state of British journalism

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Daily Mail "But if this is a nation with enormous reserves of wealth, it is also blighted by widespread and endemic corruption at every level of society. An official report has revealed that 90 per cent of government officials have accepted a bribe for favours, from ripping up a speeding fine to rubber-stamping a building deal. Corruption, as the Indian prime minister confessed the other day, is

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Douglas Carswell "What makes anyone believe that making lots of cheap cash available to banks is going to work this time? Isn't that pretty much what central banks have been doing ever since the credit crunch first struck. It's hardly fixed the problem, has it? Indeed, it has been central banks making lots of cheap cash and credit available for the past twenty something years that landed us in

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businessinsider "The global debt crisis, of course, is nothing new. Since the dawn of time, men have been lending other men money (or other things of value) and not getting them back. But it's only recently that the solution to this state of affairs has gotten so complicated that even PhD economists can't figure it out. In most situations in which people or companies can't pay their debts, a

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Independent "Come back, Alastair, all is forgiven Campbell's evidence yesterday discombobulated Ian Kirby, who was political editor of the News of the World for many years until the paper's demise. "I never knew there were two Alastair Campbells," he wrote on his Facebook wall. "The one I know told me Peter Mandelson was insane, but insisted I used it anonymously, persuaded Tony Blair to change

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Daily Mail "British banks have been told that they need to prepare for the break up of the single currency.The Financial Services Authority told the UK's banking giants late last week that they must 'accelerate their contingency planning for the the break-up of the euro'.'We cannot be, and are not, complacent on this front, said Andrew Bailey, deputy head of the FSA's Prudential Business Unit.The

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Bloomberg "Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said the U.K. is being “increasingly threatened” by the euro- area crisis, and authorities must be ready to act if it continues to escalate. “What we have to do is to be ready and prepared with contingency plans and to make sure that as far as possible our banking system is as robust as possible to withstand whatever shocks that come from the

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Daily Mail "Parliament's jauntiest geezer was up on his Mystic Megs just before lunch in the House of Lords. I refer, naturally, to Lord Sugar, television personality, property developer, shooter of cuffs. He is also a ‘socialist’ peer, though yesterday he sounded more like a Thatcherite (which I suspect is what he really is). ....Sid James’s long-lost twin is not restful to watch. He will not

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New Speaker Peter Slipper under expenses scrutiny (Adelaide Now) "THE Liberal turncoat who accepted Julia Gillard's support to become Parliament's Speaker is being investigated over his "extraordinary" spending on taxpayer-funded travel. .....The Queensland MP, who has been forced to pay back more than $20,000 in wrongly claimed entitlements, also embarked on a lavish six-week study tour in March

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Daily Mail "Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the UK’s contributions to Brussels rose by 5.7 per cent last year to a record £18.5 billion – double the Home Office Budget. At the same time, the money Britain received back from the EU fell by almost a quarter to £8.1 billion, a fall of £2.6 billion in a year."

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Daily Mail "More important still, however, is the vacuum across the Atlantic. President Barack Obama, who took office almost three years ago amid such high hopes, now clings to the White House amid collapsed poll ratings and a real threat that the American people will evict him at next autumn’s election. The United States, as that great historian Sir Michael Howard has said, remains ‘the only

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Daily Mail "She's done it again. If Commons Speaker John Bercow thought his wife Sally would cause him no further embarrassment after openly discussing their 'spicy' sex life on Big Brother he was mistaken for she has revealed her favourite gadget is a sex toy. Mrs Bercow, 41, made the revelation during an interview for a political magazine when asked what her favourite device was. She replied:

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Dr Richard North "The headline and first paragraph says it all. But is there any politically mature person anywhere in Europe who would not pose the same question of their own country and government?" "The evidence is overwhelming: binding fiscal decisions have been made and communicated to the EU before the Cabinet has met to discuss or approve them. We have, then, three clear instances in

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Daily Mail #Finance minister's astonishing claim comes despite deepening crisis that threatens the existence of the single currency #PM flies to Berlin today to discuss repatriation of EU powers and 'Tobin tax' #UK to pressure Merkel to allow euro bank to print more money #Senior Tory calls for 'permanent, universal opt-out' from European laws --------------------------------- Springtime for

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Sky News (Australia) "Homeless people are being moved away from Darwin's city centre ahead of the visit by US President Barack Obama for security reasons. Larrakia Nation chief executive Ilana Eldridge says her organisation, which offers support to homeless people, has been given a gentle suggestion by the government to help people move away from places Mr Obama will visit. Ms Eldridge says

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Quadrant Online(Australia) "Tony Abbott’s speech in Parliament today to welcome Barack Obama before his own speech to both Houses was a masterpiece – but one which will sadly go over the heads of most Australian people. It was a Prime Ministerial speech, mercifully devoid of the nonsensical sentiment with which Gillard’s was choked. (You’d have thought Julia had been there like Grace Sullivan,

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Daily Mail"> "Study author describes 'irrevocable change' Trend seen right across England In Tower Hamlets, pupils from ethnic minorities make up more than 80%" ------------------ Foreign workers take yet more UK jobs as number of Britons in work plunges and youth unemployment hits one million

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Daily Mail "Critics have pointed out that Italy will now be governed by a band of 'non elected pipe smoking and tweed wearing university dons' - although Monti does have the backing of all the major Italian political parties. 'This government, ties to banks, to business, to the Vatican, to private universities - to the usual names - is the opposite of what this country needs,' said Paolo Ferrero,

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BBC News "Mario Monti has unveiled a new, technocratic cabinet meant to steer Italy through its debt crisis after the fall of Silvio Berlusconi's government."

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Yahoo News "It could become a pub quiz question: who was the first British prime minister to sell himself to a foreign power? It would be too easy to guess the answer — Tony Blair, who recently signed a multimillion pound contract to advise President Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan. He has reportedly opened an office in the capital, Astana. Other than the president, no-one knows what advice Mr Blair is

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Telegraph "As this week’s replacement of elected leaders, largely at Germany’s behest, underlines, this is a democratic crisis as much as an economic one. The EU’s essentially undemocratic nature allowed elites to push through the euro – not something which the people of Europe ever demanded or, in most northern countries, even supported with much enthusiasm."

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Daily Mail "This was the week that should convince even the most zealous champion of the euro that the game is up. For it was the week when the full, catastrophic consequences of imposing a single currency on 17 nations came home with a force that defies denial. On the political front, the euro stands exposed as incompatible with democracy. Economically, it has proved a destroyer of growth, jobs

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Christopher Booker,Telegraph "So, as headlines scream that vain bids to save the euro threaten us with “Armageddon”, the EU’s ruling elite has toppled two more elected prime ministers, to replace them with technocratic officials who can be trusted to do Brussels’s bidding."

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Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia) "Italy and Greece are now both to be led by prime ministers who were not elected to parliament but appointed. Is this a perfect symbol of how the European Union is being preserved by undemocratic methods? "

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Telegraph "As the escalating eurozone crisis has toppled governments in Italy and Greece, decision-making is increasingly being driven by France, Germany and a powerful group of Brussels officials. .....Angela Merkel ,Nicolas Sarkozy , Christine Lagarde (unelected),Mario Draghi (unelected),José Manuel Barroso (unelected),Herman Van Rompuy (unelected),Olli Rehn (unelected),Jean-Claude Juncker. "

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Daily Mail "Italy is the third-largest economy in the EU, and the eighth largest on the planet. Its outstanding debt of €1.9 trillion (£1.6 trillion) accounts for 25 per cent of all the debt in the eurozone. ....What should the EU do instead? It should oversee the phased unbundling of the single currency. Supporters of the project insist a euro break-up would be technically unfeasible, but this

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Telegraph "The discussions among senior policymakers in Paris, Berlin and Brussels raised the possibility of one or more countries leaving the eurozone while the remaining core pushes on towards deeper economic integration, including on tax and fiscal policy. ..."This will unravel everything our forebears have painstakingly built up and repudiate all that they stood for in the past 60 years," one

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SMH (Australia) "US big-wave surfer Garrett McNamara has surfed glacier-fuelled tsunamis in Alaska but even he broke new ground when he surfed this 27-metre monster (that's 90 feet to the older folk out there) off Portugal recently.The wave, which is being acclaimed as the biggest ever ridden, is believed to be the result of deep water canyons amplifying an eight-metre swell at Praia do Norte off

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SMH (Australia) "About $30 billion was wiped from the value of Australian shares today as Italy emerged as the new centre of concern in the euro-zone debt crisis.Both major sharemarket indices fell to their lowest level in a month over concerns about Italy’s ability to service its debt mountain and the implications for the future of the euro as a common currency."

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Telegraph "Jeremy Cook, Chief Economist at foreign exchange company, World First “The markets continue to lurch from one problem to the next and we have now kicked the can as far down the road as is possible. Unfortunately there is very little more that can be done to stop this crisis. The only possible mechanism for the eurozone to haul itself out of this mess is to let the ECB print euros and

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Yahoo News /ABC "Now you might say, O.K., then, I’m sorry for the Italians, I like Italy, but…why does this matter outside Italy? Remember how markets went south – when it looked like Greece might default on its debt? Well, Italy’s debt is FIVE TIMES greater than what Greece owes. It’s been a messy process (and it isn’t over) as the Eurozone economies have struggled to bail out Greece. It’s hard

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Telegraph "It’s not a national government – not, at least, in sense of a government that represents the nation. The coalition of the two big Greek parties has been formed for the sole purpose of pursuing an agenda that the nation rejects, viz. the Brussels-mandated loans-for-austerity programme. What’s more, the nation is right to reject it. Greeks can see that the bailout money is not coming to

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Telegraph "France has unveiled the toughest austerity measures since World War Two despite the looming danger of a double-dip recession, vowing to slash borrowing by €65bn over the next five years in a last-ditch effort to save the country's AAA rating. "

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Daily Mail "Increasingly, it appears we are witnessing the death of democracy and the right of sovereign nations inside the eurozone to govern their own affairs. First the overbearing eurocrats — led by France and Germany — bullied Greece into dropping its planned referendum. Then they forced Prime Minister George Papandreou from office and made it plain that the country’s next leader must be a

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Daily Mail "The real culprit is surely a political culture that years ago lost the plot on national identity and race relations — and the legacy of which is an administrative class whose resulting attitudes are simply inimical to the national interest. The crucial milestone in this long-running debacle was 1997, when the incoming Blair/Brown Labour government decided to lift existing immigration

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Daily Mail "A petition calling for drastic action to prevent the UK's population soaring to 70million was yesterday backed by 1,000 people every hour. The huge response to the campaign by Migration Watch means it is already one of the most popular e-petitions on the Downing Street website. By 6pm yesterday – 18 hours after its official launch – there were 18,000 signatures. Late last night, the

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Daily Mail #Greek cabinet vote unanimously to hold referendum on whether to uphold debt agreement #Generals face sack as coup rumours spread #Markets plunge as fears for the euro grow #PM George Papandreou to meet eurozone leaders ahead of G20 meeting ‘It’s all over. The government is about to collapse,’ said one Greek official. Greece’s former deputy finance minister Petros Doukas agreed: ‘The *

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Daily Mail #FTSE 100 falls 3.4 per cent after opening #Germany's Dax falls by 6.2 per cent #French CAC-40 falls 5.9 per cent #Dax, Nikkei, Dow Jones and Nasdaq also tumble #59 per cent of Greeks think deal is ‘negative’ #'No' vote could prompt country's exit from the Euro #228-year-old US brokerage MF Global goes bankrupt due to euro bonds #First Greek referendum

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Christopher Booker,Telegraph "We are not going to pull out, which would anyway be extraordinarily difficult now, because the way Britain is governed has become so inextricably enmeshed with “Europe”. Anyone who thinks we can “renegotiate” has no understanding of what this project is about, or its most sacred principle – that powers, once handed over, can never be given back. So we must stay in,

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Daily Mail "A defiant Mr Blair insisted his party’s policy on immigration was the right one. He said: 'It’s been a very positive thing and there is no way for a country like Britain to succeed in the future unless it is open to people of different colours, faiths and cultures.’ Under Labour, up to 5.5million people born outside the UK arrived as long-term migrants.Between 1997 and 2010, around

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Daily Mail "The Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Meryvn King, echoed that feeling by warning the deal would only give 'a year or two of breathing space' to sort out the crisis."

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Daily Mail "He revealed there were 3,775 criminals in May this year who had been released from immigration detention centres because there was ‘no prospect of them being deported in a reasonable time’. Of those, 3,259 had served sentences for low-level offences, another 429 for ‘more serious’ crimes, and 87 for the most serious offences – including murder, rape and paedophilia. Some are unable to

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Daily Mail

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Daily Mail Comment "The supreme irony of Monday’s debate is that it was called in answer to a mass public petition, in accordance with a pre-election Conservative pledge that was meant to prove the party’s determination to reconnect the political class with the people. In the event, the e-petition gimmick served only to highlight and deepen the yawning democratic deficit between the rulers and

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NYT,PAUL KRUGMAN "It’s a vicious circle, with fears of default threatening to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. To save the euro, this threat must be contained. But how? The answer has to involve creating a fund that can, if necessary, lend Italy (and Spain, which is also under threat) enough money that it doesn’t need to borrow at those high rates. Such a fund probably wouldn’t have to be used,

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Daily Mail #Taoiseach Brian Cowen 'would drink all evening in Irish Parliament pub' #Late Finance Minister hampered in attempts to prevent bail-out 'because he wasn't part of drinking circle' #'Everybody thought that when he became Taoiseach he’d stop drinking, but he actually didn’t'

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City Am,EDITOR’S LETTER "Had the government passed a law in Parliament to take money from one group and give it to another – to grab cash from people’s bank accounts to help pay down their neighbours’ mortgages, overdrafts and credit card bills – there would have been outrage. Had the government decreed a partial default on the national debt (most of which is not indexed to inflation), the

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Daily Mail "On the home front the situation seems grim, the economy is stalled and people are very nervous. Here are some hard stats: The U.S. debt has increased by 4.2 TRILLION since Mr. Obama took office. The government spends over 4.2 billion dollars per day more than it takes in. Over $787 billion was spent on a shovel ready stimulus programme that, in the president’s own words, 'wasn’t so

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The Adam Smith Institute "The other reason is that inflation is eating into what pay rises people are getting, leaving them generally worse off. And (Friedman again) you can put that down to monetary policy. Like anything else, creating too much of the stuff just makes it worthless, and the MPC has created too much of the stuff. If overseas investors come to the same conclusion and sterling

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Guido Fawkes "The “Occupy the London Stock Exchange” and “Occupy Wall Street” crowd have got the wrong target. Living standards are being deliberately and systematically undermined by central bankers not stockbrokers. The London protestors should head over to the Bank of England and their friends in NYC should head for DC. Inflation at 5% is robbing rich and poor alike of our earning power. In

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Daily Mail "Last year, 37,300 cases were launched by immigrants appealing to stay in Britain after the Home Office ruled they were not entitled to remain here. Of course, this figure accounts only for those tracked down by officials — leaving tens of thousands who have avoided detection free to stay. A significant number of those foreigners fighting to remain in Britain are small-time criminals,

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