Volkswagen – the Lance Armstrong of the global auto-mobile industry

Volkswagen – the Lance Armstrong of the global auto-mobile industry

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BBC News The scale of the VW scandal is quite breathtaking Although at the moment this is not directly a political story there are likely to be huge political implications. These will be on top of the financial disturbance to the markets that has started to happen. The dramatic drop in the VW share price already is going to filter through to many areas. One thing that comes to mind immediately is how come there are apparently much tighter clean…

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The Ashcroft revelations day 2

The Ashcroft revelations day 2

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pic.twitter.com/fL7iZ43wYb — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) September 22, 2015 Could this be damaging to Osborne’s succession chances? One aspect of this which has a betting implication is what the Ashcroft revelations will do to the next CON leader markets? Is recent months, particularly since the July budget, the sentiment has moved very strongly to the Chancellor, George Osborne. I wonder whether some of the backlash provoked by the tabloid frenzy could impact on him because, after all, Osborne was also a…

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Whatever the veracity of the story this could stick to “Call me Dave”

Whatever the veracity of the story this could stick to “Call me Dave”

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Let's move on from The Vow.. pic.twitter.com/j1J9AmmbkV — The Daily Record (@Daily_Record) September 21, 2015 I like the Daily Record’s reference to the famous Daily Record front page before the InyRef a year ago with the headline “The vow”. As I mentioned in my last post I’ve been driving back from the South of France and only this afternoon did I start to catch up with the story. Nobody really knows whether this is true or not or whether there…

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Fiorina now leading the Donald in New Hampshire – where the first full primary takes place

Fiorina now leading the Donald in New Hampshire – where the first full primary takes place

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Just arrived back home from my holiday in Southern France and am only now catching up with the news – so no piggy puns from me! While Britain has been focussed on the election of Mr Corbyn, and now the Ashcroft Cameron biography, the 2016 White House race has been seeing some dramatic developments Last week there was the second full TV debate of the Republican party Primary featuring the former CEO of Hewlett Packard, Carly Fiorina, who only just…

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This should take the pressure off Mr Corbyn

This should take the pressure off Mr Corbyn

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Front page of the Mail – They are serialising @LordAshcroft‘s biography of Cameron http://t.co/rDA3WrMFVl pic.twitter.com/IDgwhStON8 — TSE (@TSEofPB) September 20, 2015 Cameron reaping what he has sowed, ahem, for not offering @LordAshcroft a job? pic.twitter.com/8gOwSiAPRa — TSE (@TSEofPB) September 20, 2015 Just when you thought politics couldn’t get any weirder. I thought writing “Jeremy Corbyn has been elected Labour leader” would be the weirdest/unlikeliest PB thread I would write this summer. I was wrong, very wrong as this thread features…

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ICM marginals poll finds the Tories losing their majority

ICM marginals poll finds the Tories losing their majority

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ICM phone polled in the 20 most marginal Labour target seats  (19 Tory and 1 Lib Dem) on behalf of The Sun on Sunday. This found Labour up 4% since May to 42% and the Tories unchanged on 39%. This represents a Con to Lab swing of 2.1%. This would deprive the Tories of their majority. Though on this swing Labour would only take seventeen target seats at the election, 77 fewer than what they need to have a majority. The fieldwork…

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To kneel or not to kneel that is the question

To kneel or not to kneel that is the question

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Sunday Telegraph story. Corbyn might be Under Pressure following slur at The Queen. http://t.co/xR2PuPrqcs pic.twitter.com/7TkjVmXVX1 — TSE (@TSEofPB) September 19, 2015 The story above in the Sunday Telegraph follows on from Corbyn’s failure to sing the national anthem at the Battle of Britain 75th anniversary memorial earlier on this week could present further problems for Mr Corbyn. Why this story might carry some potency is that Kevan Jones, one of Corbyn’s own shadow ministers has gone on the record so it…

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