» Friday, January 15, 2010

Haiti

Our specialist teams are on the ground and commenced working. Our ambassador, Steve Fisher, and a consular officer travelled from Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) yesterday and are now on the ground in Haiti. They are working closely with our resident Honorary Consul. A Foreign Office consular rapid deployment team arrived in Santo Domingo yesterday to […]

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Bank Bonuses

Put that JP Morgan were announcing bonuses worth 27billion today while President Obama had urged other countries to curb excesses in banks and what was the Prime Minister’s view on this, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that we had made our position clear with the introduction of the bonus tax. In […]

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Economy

Asked whether the Prime Minister agreed with the Chancellor that the recession was over, the PMS said that he had not heard the Chancellor characterise it in the present tense. The Government had always said that we would see a recovery by the turn of the year. Put that the Chancellor had said it in […]

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AV Referedum

Asked if the Government was still committed to legislating this side of the election for an AV referendum after the election, the PMS said yes; we had said that we planned to hold a referendum on AV after the next election. original source.

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International Development

Put that the Opposition had said that it could use some of the ring-fenced international development money for a military reconstruction force, the PMS said that the idea of a reconstruction force was not new. We had about a 1000 UK professionals who stood ready to help unstable countries get back on their feet. They […]

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