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Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Economic Recovery and Welfare (19 Oct 2009)

Michael Meacher: ...the so-called automatic stabilisers. Those activities are in turn ballooning the budget deficit. We all know that that is the problem. One way of dealing with the deficit is to tackle the supply side of the equation by drastically cutting other Government expenditures across the board. The other way is to tackle the demand side of the equation by initially spending more, not less, in order...

Amendment of the Law (28 Apr 2009) has video

Michael Meacher: ...refers to Lehman Brothers, and it is true that the sudden decision to allow it to go bust—a reversal of US Treasury policy up to that point—was unquestionably a severe jolt to confidence, not only on Wall street, but across the world. However, we are in a different situation in this country. I am not saying that the banks should be liquidated out of sight, but that they should...

Orders of the Day: The Economy and Pensions (14 Nov 2007) has video

Michael Meacher: ...I feel strongly is extraordinary rendition—when the Government refuse to do so. However, it is not just in Parliament that there is a democratic deficit. An even bigger one now exists outside. Over the past 30 years power has become so centralised and the regulatory authorities gradually so enfeebled that, so far from corporate power being regulated, the biggest businesses have...

Home Affairs and Communities (23 May 2005)

Michael Meacher: ...plot of January 2003, it now emerges that there was no ricin and no plot, only a convenient pretext to bang the anti-terrorist drum just before the Iraq war, and perhaps even to claim the need for ID cards. Above all, however, in the case of control orders, which the Government are obliged to reconsider, there is a much better way of reconciling individual rights with state security. I...