If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95; With HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would have been worth £16.50 and £1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5.  But, if you bought £1000 worth of Tennents Lager one year ago, drank it all, then took the empty cans to an aluminium recycling plant, you would get £214. So based on the above statistics the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.

(Now if I had written this it would not refer to Tennents Lager…)

Am writing this as we wait for our speaker to arrive.

The fringe meeting I am attending is about The Green New Deal. Watch this space as this is something you will be hearing more about and not just from me.
This is an idea whose time has come. It puts forward the premise that to address the linked triple crunches of credit, energy and climate change, we need a new deal on the scale of that in the thirties.

More later I hope, our speaker has arrived.

I’m at the party conference and enjoying the chance to catch up with friends from around the country and to participate in some real debate on future policy, something no other UK party seems to include any more.

Personal highlights so far have been making my first conference sppech - even if it was only a 1 minute intervention - in the debate on Global Security Saturday afternoon. I just wanted to hughlight the looming threat of reducing energy supply, particularly in respect of oil resources, and the impact that will have on geopolitical pressures. Read the rest of this entry.