OK – first some self-justification. I realise that this song doesn’t exactly enhance my credentials as the wild man of PR. Unfortunately it’s the most appropriate one I could come up with in what is a necessarily short space of time and, having set out the parameters for titles myself – most importantly that they [...]
Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Do You Know Where You’re Going To…..
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Edelman, Politics, Public Relations, tagged British Chambers of Commerce, David Frost, Economy, Goldman Sachs, Jim O'Neill, John Waples, Liberal Democrats, Sunday Times, Vince Cable on 4 December 2008 | 1 Comment »
Killer Queen…
Posted in Economy, Politics, tagged Banking, British Chambers of Commerce, British Retail Consortium, Queens Speech on 3 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s an indication of the constantly changing state of the financial world – and the Government’s introduction in draft form in May of many of the bills presented – that today’s Queen’s Speech has been largely shrugged off in the City. While there were certainly murmurs of discontent from business groups such as the British [...]
Brown Sugar…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Politics, tagged Alistair Darling, PBR, Vince Cable on 24 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
And there it was gone. The most eagerly anticipated – and heavily trailed – pre budget report since PBRs began (admittedly only ten years ago) has taken place against a backdrop of political discord and disagreement between the three main UK parties. The Government has moved in a single leap from Prudence to Profligacy, hoping that [...]
Dazed and confused…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Politics, tagged Banks, Credit Crunch, Economy, pre-budget report on 21 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today’s Daily Mail front page lead caught my eye. Under the headline ‘Banks: Now it gets Ugly’ it says that “Alistair Darling is so exasperated by the ‘moral failure’ of banks to help small firms and families that he is poised to toughen the law.” Apparently the particular target of the Chancellor’s ire is those [...]
Cars
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Politics, Public Relations, Reputation, tagged Cars, Detroit, Gary Numan, Richard Edelman on 19 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On one level, the current debate over the fate of the Big 3 Detroit car companies – and specifically whether the US Government should extend a further $25bn of public money to help the industry weather its own current financial crisis – puts me in mind of the “what have the Roman’s ever done for [...]
Down down…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Edelman, Markets, Politics, tagged Bank of England, Economy, interest rates, Public Relations, Status Quo, Susan Eastoe on 6 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Is the Governor of the Bank of England sending a signal to the banks with today’s shock 1.5% reduction in interest rates? This is the view of my colleague Susan Eastoe, Edelman’s Deputy CEO and Public Affairs guru who says that in dropping base rates to their lowest point since 1955 it looks like Mervyn [...]
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Politics, Reputation, tagged Chelsea Football Club, Credit Crunch, George Osborne, Oleg Deripaska, Peter Mandelson, Political Donations on 27 October 2008 | 2 Comments »
My inaugural blog post (Never mind the Economics) looked at the issue of perception and reality but as this is an issue that sits at the heart of PR and communications I make no apologies for returning to it again today, following a weekend of heated media debate about the links of the UK’s business [...]
Oops I did it again…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Markets, Politics, tagged Bank of England, Gordon Brown, london Evening Standard, Mervyn King on 23 October 2008 | 3 Comments »
Mervyn King certainly put the cat among the pigeons on Tuesday evening with his unexpectedly pessimistic assessment of the UK’s economic fortunes. With the Bank of England expected to cut interest rates again as soon as next month and Gordon Brown joining Mr King in using the R word for the first time yesterday the [...]
Hate to say I told you so…
Posted in Economy, Politics, Reputation, tagged BBC, Bloomberg, Conservatives, David Cameron, Nick Robinson, Tory Party on 17 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Regular readers (both of you) will recall my post earlier in the week (I’m still standing…) that predicted David Cameron’s Conservative party would be eager to break free of their self-imposed supportive stance towards the Government’s economic stability proposals and re-establish their credentials as a party of opposition by, well, opposing things. This morning’s speech [...]
