Man in a Shed: Canvassing done

Monday, April 24, 2006

Canvassing done - idle thoughts

On Saturday I finished the last of the canvassing I'd volunteered for. All in all things are going OK - though I don't detect any great movements in opinion. A few Lib Dem waivers were interested in David Cameron, but I suspect they'll want to give him more time to see how he beds in.

In general the great British public were polite and friendly, with only one or two exceptions. Even those still in their dressing gowns at 11am on a Saturday morning.

What was strange was how different types of voters were 'clustered'. Young families ( and people who seemed essentially happy to me ) supporting the Tory's. Most of the miserable people 'North facing houses especially' voting Lib Dem and a few die hards going to vote Labour ( if they have a candidate here ).

Can't help thinking some modern profiling tools would work wonders .... Time to find David Cameron's Lexus man perhaps ...

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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