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Green Stimulus Or Simulus?

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30 Mar 2009
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What is the government doing that is new and additional to stimulate the economy by spending on the environment? This report by the New Economics Foundation shows that new funding for greening the economy amounts to just 0.6 per cent of the UK’s total stimulus package. Gordon Brown recently claimed to the House of Commons liaison committee that around 10 per cent of the UK package was directed towards "environmentally important technologies".

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Will Labour be nuked at the ballot box?

Edinburgh at night

Scots head to the voting booths tomorrow and the latest and last Scotsman/ICM opinion poll is saying it is too close to call.

Now there are a lot of reasons for Scots to be upset with Labour and want to oust them, but none seems more symbolic of the situation than the Scottish Labour party's stance on nuclear power.

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