Web 2.0 interview with Alistair Darling
Interview with the UK Chancellor
- Just setting up the SMOB (Social Media Outside Broadcast) studio for #askdarling with @ilicco. I know we're not outside and that social media isn't broadcast but we like the sound of the acronym.
- RT @audioboo: markhaywardjones posted a boo: Social media interview with Alastair Darling http://bit.ly/3qSAkK >>Don't forget: #askdarlingcomment by Britt_W via twitter 10/21/2009 10:16:43 AM
- Alastair Darling is about to begin his NewsMaker speech
- Alistair Darling just beginning his speech at the Thomson Reuters Newsmaker #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:37:05 AM
- Darling: It is strange for me to be addressing a City audience and not be talking about the banks #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:37:27 AM
- Darling: We should embrace the opportunities a global recovery will bring #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:37:59 AM
- Darling: Three steps are needed 1) support the recovery until it is over. And it isn't over yet #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:38:46 AM
- Darling: There are encouraging signs that things are getting better #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:39:23 AM
- Darling: Unemployment still too high - but not as high as the 90s recession. Key to this has been getting people back into work #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:40:06 AM
- Darling: We need to help people to stand on their own two feet again and make sure the recovery is embedded #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:40:33 AM
- We've had last minute audio problems and can't bring you the live stream of the Chancellor's NewsMaker but we'll be tweeting the highlights
- Darling: 2) Equally important is to rebuild fiscal strength in the medium term #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:41:04 AM
- Welcome to the Reuters UK Web2.0 interview with Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling. We'll kick off at about 1:30 (BST) on Wednesday but the Chancellor will be delivering a speech from 12:30 that we will aim to stream live here.
- Darling: 3) There is no better time to plan for growth than now. We need growth to make it easier to pay back debt #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:43:05 AM
- Darling: We cannot wallow in an age of austerity - this is poverty of aspiration #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:43:36 AM
- Darling: Public investment and private endeavor will encourage growth #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:44:42 AM
- Darling: Apprenticeships have trebled, but there is still a skills gap and this is something we need to address #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:45:53 AM
- Darling: Green industries alone could support half a million jobs in the next decade #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:48:10 AM
- Darling: We have a good story to tell, despite challenges #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:49:03 AM
- Darling: In the last year, countries have shown they can work together, starting at the G20 next month #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:49:50 AM
- Darling: We are beating the recession, now let's win the recovery #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:50:14 AM
- Alistair Darling is now taking questions from the audience #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:50:33 AM
- Q: How does sale of assets fit into plans for recovery #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:51:37 AM
- Darling: When we don't need to own assets, it is better to sell them and pay down debtby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:52:49 AM
- Darling: VAT decrease has put 12 and a half billion pounds into the economy #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:55:01 AM
- Darling: Scrappage scheme has breathed life into the motoring industry #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 11:55:29 AM
- Darling: We have less banks around at the moment than is ideal. We need to encourage new entrants #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 12:02:08 PM
- Darling taking a question by the guy who is opening London's 26 closed underground stations up to tourists. Says the idea is "fascinating"by Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 12:04:54 PM
- Darling: We will make a huge error of judgment if we don't plan for the next 10 plus years #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 12:06:01 PM
- That's the end of questions, stand by for our social media interview #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 12:10:36 PM
by Ilicco via Flickr 10/21/2009 12:15:16 PM
by Ilicco via Flickr 10/21/2009 12:17:18 PM
by Ilicco via Flickr 10/21/2009 12:32:17 PM- Darling we need to invest more on 3rd sector social enterprises whom directly deliver Government targets, your office or OTs should redistribute these money in to a Credit unions, rather than handing over the money to third party quangos who aren’t elected or commonalty banks. These social business groups Create jobs for themselves or to their friends and family. The quangos are employed commercial bankers who do not have a clue about the social entrepreneur’s life. I am as a social entrepreneur applied on several initiatives created by the government, as social investment loan finance from the moment we heard about the crunch, until today it has not been successful effort. Due to the fact that the selection criteria is made by the same red tape. The money you have allocated to the sector is diverged in to the SE who holds the millions pounds of reserves, not to the social enterprises who’re struggling to keep up with the jobs and their inspirational projects, they do not get the priority as their bank accounts are empty. Rather than individual SME’s of SE community who really touch peoples lives by enabling themselves and the others to lift them out of poverty. We believe in creating conditions where people can enable themselves lifting themselves out of poverty. So what do you going to do about it?
by Ilicco via Flickr 10/21/2009 12:37:36 PM
by Ilicco via Flickr 10/21/2009 12:38:36 PM- Alistair Darling: "I wanted banks to behave far more responsibly. We've got to comply with G20 conditions."by Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 12:38:52 PM
- Alistair Darling: "Part of our problem is that we're dealing in London with banks that are not British." #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 12:39:21 PM
by Ilicco via Flickr 10/21/2009 12:39:36 PM- The sum of UK bank bonuses this year will be a shade lower than £100bln, which funnily enough is not far off the public sector shortfall -- do you plan to tax citizens yet again for the shortfall, or would you consider taking some of that money back directly from the bankers?
by Ilicco via Flickr 10/21/2009 12:41:36 PM- Is now the time for the UK to join the Euro ?
- What measures can you take to give recent University graduates a chance of gainful, meaningful employment?
by Ilicco via Flickr 10/21/2009 12:43:16 PM- Alistair Darling: "We've made it clear there can't be any rewards for people who have failed." #askdarlingby Julie Mollins via twitter 10/21/2009 12:43:31 PM
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