Cameron vows to help cure economy
Saturday 27th September 2008, 11:50AM BST.
David Cameron has pledged to bring forward a “comprehensive plan” at the Conservative Party conference starting in Birmingham tomorrow to cure Britain’s economic ills.
Taking a leaf out of Margaret Thatcher’s 1970s cookbook, the Tory leader said the plan would be based on “good housekeeping” and would be designed to restore confidence and stability to the UK economy.
He told the Shropshire Star that while Gordon Brown was pre-occupied with healing divisions inside the Labour Party, the Tories understood public concerns and were completely focused on dealing with them.
“We are coming to Birmingham completely unified and that enables the Conservative Party to give a 100 per cent focus to the problems that are actually facing people in the West Midlands,” he said.
But he conceded he and his party still have plenty of work to do to convince the public that they are ready, willing and able to take over the government of the UK.
The Tory leader also said he would be repeating his message to Conservative-led councils to think very hard about their spending plans to avoid big increases in council tax.
But he paid tribute to the new Tory-led administration in Telford & Wrekin, insisting that it was getting a grip on spending.
Read the full interview with David Cameron in Saturday’s Shropshire Star
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god help the economy if a bunch of lightweight spivs ever get the chance to wreck it. stick to what you are good at diddy david, carping and criticising from the touchline
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‘The Tory leader said the plan… would be designed to restore confidence and stability to the UK economy.’
What concerns me is the direction our economy and the world economy is going in.
Politics has got to provide solutions to the triple crunch of the financial meltdown, peak oil and climate change.
To restore confidence, we need to ensure that the financial system is properly regulated.
To restore confidence, we need to ensure that massive government investment goes into making our economy resilient enough to be ready for the widely predicted impacts of peak oil and climate change.
If we all want stability, then we ought to pay heed to Nicholas Stern’s prediction that climate change is ‘the biggest market failure in history’, and respond appropriately.
Here is one potential way out of our problems:
http://www.shropshirestar.com/2008/07/21/experts-call-for-credit-and-climate-crunch-action/
The Green New Deal is also available on the new economic foundation website.
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