Ken Clarke vows to cut business red tape

[kkwillsaveus]

People talk Vince Cable as some form of economic messiah, but what's he ever done in office? He doesn't even believe in capitalism. This man is the true economic guru, he's actually done things in office and got results, and he gave Labour the perfect set of economic circumstances, which they ruined.

[makedoandmend2]

Clarke's crippling interest rates in the ERM Black Wednesday disaster wiped out thousands of businesses and brought Blair in with a landslide.

[13olibrown]

Ken Clarke is a legend

[strangemenssana]

This man's association with so disreputable a company as BAT ought to bar him from high or humble political office.

[bobchilts]

He's brilliant, and the sooner he's back in the cabinet sorting out the abysmal mess we're in, the better.

[warriorprince1010]

He is not brilliant. He is better than Brown, which is not difficult.

[Oneandoneself]

@warriorprince1010 he is too good to be a human

[makedoandmend2]

Ken Clarke comes on and yaps about helping small businesses he should be reminded about his time in the last Tory government. It was the terrible advice he gave to John Major to raise interest rates to keep the pound in the ERM that bankrupted thousands of businesses as well as costing mortgage payers the roof over their head. The crippling Conservative interest rate hikes which caused Black Wednesday and twelve years of Labour should have ended Kenneth Clarkes political career.

[paranorma1palace]

Clarke has taken a number of non-executive directorships and engaged in non-political media work, including serving as Deputy Chairman[6] of British American Tobacco (BAT) (1998-2007) and Deputy Chairman of Alliance Unichem, and has faced allegations over the activities of BAT in lobbying the developing world to reject stronger health warnings on cigarette packets and evidence that his corporation has been involved in smuggling.