The Talking Clock: Are you remembering what I'm remembering?

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Bill of Rights, 1689
- an important and still exisiting part of OUR both written and unwritten English constitution

Sunday, 14 February 2010

Are you remembering what I'm remembering? - Part 1

Are you remembering what I'm remembering?

"As a result of our overall prudence, debt as a proportion of GDP is set to fall below 40% to 39% next year, to 38% and then to 36.5%."
- Gordon Brown, November 1998

Are you remembering what I'm remembering?

"I have one further announcement: Because of our prudence in the management of public finances, Government spending is well within the limits we set. Our prudence is for a purpose."
- Gordon Brown, November 1998

Are you remembering what I'm remembering?

"As a result, our current budget this year is expected to be £5.5bn pounds in surplus, and what was prudently projected to be net borrowing of £1bn is now expected to be a debt repayment of £1.5bn."
- Gordon Brown, November 1998

Are you remembering what I'm remembering?

"It is because we are cautious about the balance of risks in the economy that we have based public finance forecasts on deliberately more prudent assumptions than before. First, our public finances are planned on an estimate of 2.25% trend rate of growth, 0.25% lower than the assumption that we inherited."
- Gordon Brown, November 1998

Are you remembering what I'm remembering?

"So, even after making most prudent assumptions and then taking into account the world downturn, we meet our first rule - to balance our current budget over the cycle."
- Gordon Brown, November 1998

Are you remembering what I'm remembering?

"An estimated current surplus for the coming five years of £33bn pounds, a margin that shows that we are equipped to cope with further uncertainties. This £33bn contrasts with, under the last Government, a deficit of £149bn over the economic cycle, as national debt doubled. Our second rule, the sustainable investment rule, requires that, as we borrow for investment, debt is set at a prudent and stable level."
- Gordon Brown, November 1998

Are you remembering what I'm remembering?

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Forever... Diana

...genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.

"And when I look at people in public life... I'm not a political animal but I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love - for a minute, for an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"I think the British people need someone in public life to give affection, to make them feel important, to support them, to give them light in their dark tunnels. I see it as a possibly unique role, and yes, I've had difficulties, as everybody has witnessed over the years, but let's now use the knowledge I've gathered to help other people in distress."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity, a standard-bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a truly British girl who transcended nationality."
- Earl Spencer

"..she was our guardian, friend and protector. She never once allowed her unfaltering love for us to go unspoken or undemonstrated. She will always be remembered for her amazing public works. But behind the media glare, to us, just two loving children, she was quite simply the best mother in the world."
- Prince Harry

The People's Sovereignty

"...our membership of the European Union has removed our democracy; it has taken away the right of the British people to elect and dismiss those who make their laws. Our system of representative parliamentary democracy, for which millions have died over hundreds of years, has been frittered away. It no longer serves the people. That is why the time has come to give power back to the people. They deserve it anyway; it is their power and it belongs to them. Before long their anger will overflow if they do not get it back."

- Former UKIP leader Lord Pearson in the House of Lords, 5th February 2009

British resistance and liberty

"We British have in a very special way contributed to Europe. Over the centuries we have fought to prevent Europe from falling under the dominance of a single power. We have fought and we have died for her freedom. Only miles from here, in Belgium, lie the bodies of 120,000 British soldiers who died in the First World War.

Had it not been for that willingness to fight and to die, Europe would have been united long before now - but not in liberty, not in justice. It was British support to resistance movements throughout the last War that helped to keep alive the flame of liberty in so many countries until the day of liberation."

- Margaret Thatcher, Bruges, 1992

Sunday, 14 February 2010

Are you remembering what I'm remembering? - Part 1

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