China … Investment or extracting payment!

The Chinese £6 billion investment in the Hinkley Point Nuclear plant, has been hailed as a coupe for George Osborne arising from his rather extensive trip to China. Certainly the indication of China being prepared to invest a further £3 billion in UK infra structure projects sounds enticing. However, are they not just extracting a …

Osborne … blind to consequences!

Osborne has shown, yet again, that he has no creativity nor ability to foresee the consequences of his actions. While the UK desperately needs to be investing in it's infra-structure, all he can come up with is to try and hi-jack the Milliband election manisfesto pledge on building and infra-structure development. While this is indeed …