Man in a Shed: The trap awaiting the English

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

The trap awaiting the English

Just thinking on a comment Iain Dale made this morning about supporting a referendum for an English Parliament.

What if the proposal is defeated ? It would trap us for 10-25 years in democratic deficient whilst England's enemies tried to undermine her existence with regional assembly plans, mass immigration and other ploys.

A referendum is reasonable, but keeping the status quo isn't. This could be a future nail biter. As a precaution some thought and preparation is needed for a referendum. I must look and see what the CEP is doing on this ....

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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