Pre-Budget Report: Interns vs. bankers

How was it for you? If you are young and unemployed, or an unpaid intern, a measured cheer is in order in response to the Chancellor’s Pre-Budget Report. If you are a banker, there’ll be fewer glasses of champagne this Christmas but you really can’t complain at having to pay a bit of tax on your bonuses. Though no doubt some will. It has been entertaining to watch Tories and City folk scrabbling around for appropriate soundbites on what was wrong with Alistair Darling’s pre-budget report.

The shouting earlier (more…)

Barbara Gunnell | Wednesday, 9th December, 2009 at 3:24 pm | Blog | 2 comments



Budget: NDotM Press Release

PrintBudget 2009: New Deal of the Mind Press Release

The 2009 Budget Is Nothing Short of A New Deal of the Mind

New Deal of the Mind welcomes the measures laid out by the Chancellor in today’s Budget to help boost innovation and tackle unemployment. Since its inception earlier this year, the New Deal of the Mind coalition (NDotM) has argued that we must act now or risk losing a generation of young people to the recession. (more…)

Peter Barrett | Thursday, 23rd April, 2009 at 1:46 am | Blog | No comment