What news stories are being crowded out ?

The expenses scandal and its repercussions rumble on. We could have a new PM by Tuesday and even a general election by the end of the month. But as this crisis continues, many other stories re being pushed off the front pages….the UK agreeing to committ huge resources to guard Iraqi offshore oil production – the PMs refusal to fund a UK troop surge in Afghanistan – Israel’s unprecedented snub to the US president – the imminent closure of Vauxhall in favour of production in Germany and closure of LDV (and the involvement of Lord Mandelson’s friend Mr Deripaska in both) – and the IMF’s criticism of UK economic policy and it’s debts due to exceed 100% of annual GDP by 2013, and general predictions of a large fall in Sterling and a big rise in UK inflation and interest rates.

In a few weeks we will have to re-read all the foreign news websites to catch up on what has been really going on in the UK and the world while we have been away in expenses-scandal-land.