Man in a Shed: May 2005

Monday, May 09, 2005

Blair back ( to the wall )

So Tony Blair won the election. He may feal some relief in getting away from hostile members of the public and interviewers, however in a few weeks he's more likely to think about the election with fond nostalgia. The Left's old favourite activity of subversion is back - they're all worried about being outflanked on the unreformed ' learn't nothing in the last 20 years' socialist front by the Lib Dems. Tony's pretending to be a Tory doesn't help them keep their seats in the house of commons.

The real battle for Britain's future is about to be descided in the Conservative party over the next 18 months ....

Real politics is back ! (Hurray).

PS New Labour RIP 1997-2005.

The pound in your pocket

"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists." James Callaghan

“The trouble with theoretical economists is that they don't understand that when you have a deficit, you can only finance it by borrowing, and you've got to persuade people that it's worth lending money to you and that they'll get their money back... there's no way of escaping it.” Dennis Healey during the 1976 Stirling Crisis.

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens ... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of over-turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." John Maynard Keynes, 1920.

"To preserve [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America,1801-1809.

Inflation is taxation without legislation .. Milton Friedman