Clarke is the city's top tip for Chancellor

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RUSHCLIFFE MP Ken Clarke was named as the best man to be the next Chancellor by London's financial and business community today.

Mr Clarke, currently set to become Business Secretary if the Tories win the election, was named as the right choice by an expert panel recruited by London financial newspaper City A.M.

The Notts MP was picked ahead of five other candidates including shadow chancellor George Osborne and Lib Dem economics spokesman Vince Cable.

One senior stockbroker on the panel said: "George Osborne is so untried while Ken is more experienced.

"Frankly Ken has a lot more political and financial clout."

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    by Ed, Derbys

    Thursday, March 11 2010, 9:05PM

    “Voice of the People, Everywhere!, "Vince Cable's nothing special. Websites like housepricecrash had been explaining the ins and outs of the impending economic situation for years before he cribbed off them and stuck his oar in. He presents things well, but he's no sage. "

    Even accepting your unsubstantiated allegation that Vince Cable did not have enough economics knowledge to assess the situation for himself and cribbed the information from websites, he was wise enough to see that these websites were right, which none of the Labour or Tory treasury experts at Westminster apparently did.

    So he must be a bit of a sage.”

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    by MadBadger, The Sett

    Thursday, March 11 2010, 7:23PM

    “'Mystic Moron', it's spelt 'country's' or even 'countries'', but not countries.

    You keep making this same mistake and yet expect people reading this section to believe that you are "a highly-qualified engineer".

    Yet you have not yet even mastered the basics of the English language!”

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    by Ted, Notts

    Thursday, March 11 2010, 6:36PM

    “Actually, the best party for financial ideas is The Monster Raving Looney Party. Their Big Idea? Once in power they're going to mint 99p coins. Isn't that brilliant?”

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    by Javid, Beeston

    Thursday, March 11 2010, 6:35PM

    “It means he works for the zionists

    Allah Ackbar”

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    by Andyman, Derbys

    Thursday, March 11 2010, 6:21PM

    “It makes sense to bring in someone experienced, particularly with the countries spiralling debts.”

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    by Ted, Notts

    Thursday, March 11 2010, 6:01PM

    “Jim,
    Obama didn't carry out his main electoral promise so don't fall ill over there.”

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    by arthur, Not the City

    Thursday, March 11 2010, 5:50PM

    “He's a bildeberger?

    Now, were he a ham or beef burger, we could solve the supposed world food shortage. Saying that, the West would just get fatter rather than sharing.

    But then, that's why business would like Ken: fat millionaire Tory. (Unlike the Tory Right EU sceptics).

    Eat the rich!!”

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    by Jim, Hyson Green

    Thursday, March 11 2010, 5:32PM

    “Your right the lib dems want to raise the personal allowance to £10k. but they also want to tax your pensions, increase the national insurance percentage, bring in a local income tax, bring in a mansion tax increase tax on all people earning over £18k and even more on those earning over £37k, introduce a death tax (like labour), increase fuel duty, passanger duty, abolish immigration controls (they are liberal after all) increase road duty, abolish tax free elements on pensions add VAT to food and raise the VAT from 17.5% to 20% above inflation increases on fuel, minimum prices for alcohol, increase tax on fags etc etc. Plus they want to get proportional representation that will mean a hung Parliament forever, with them partnering labour so that there can never be another tory government meaning the country will never again have low taxes and all the wealth will eventually disapear. well lets face it with the current trade deficit the country's wealth is disapearing anyway but who cares? certainly not Gordon Brown.

    I'm off to the states where hard work is rewarded not penalised.”

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    by Ted, Notts

    Thursday, March 11 2010, 5:00PM

    “So, what if he is a Bilderberger?”

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    by Javid, Beeston

    Thursday, March 11 2010, 4:29PM

    “Ken Clare is a bliderberger


    Allah Ackbar”

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