Man in a Shed: Immigration threat to our status as a nation

Civitas is being reported here (by the Press Association) as saying the the UK may already have reached a tipping point where it is no longer a nation but a collection of nations.

Now of course the UK is made up of 4 nations ( the home nations). But the debate over who the English are perhaps shows this up. I believe of people ( often called communities - mini-Nations perhaps ) are unsettled by the potential break up of the UK as they don't feel English, but they are happy with a British identity.

We are storing up great trouble for ourselves in the future, by the lazy failure to address this issue now.

What happened to the former Yugoslavia should have been a warning to us all.

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