The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has approved a bill to continue to use tax revenues to service debt at the expense of other obligations, but President Obama would be likely to veto this even in the unlikely event that the Senate passes it. As with talks on raising the ceiling itself, politicians cannot agree.

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It is said in Downing Street that shortly before David Cameron set off for his showdown in Brussels, he was offered a spot of strategic advice by William Hague. "If it's a choice between keeping the euro together or keeping the Conservative Party together," the Foreign Secretary told him, "it's in the national interest to keep the Conservative Party together." Shortly afterwards, the Prime Minister refused to join the Franco-German single currency rescue deal, and Tories everywhere rejoiced.

Thingpen said the San Francisco audit, which was commissioned by the city's assessor-recorder, Phil Ting, was not an exceptional case. "Where there's smoke, there's fire, and we're beyond the smoke stage. There's fires in county recording offices across the country."