Man in a Shed: Get your general election here .....

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Get your general election here .....

Broon made a weird point in PMQ's justifying not giving anyone a vote about him being PM by saying only about 26 people has signed the petition for an election on the No Ten web side ( and that includes Mr & Mrs Balls ).

Time to show him - look here http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Election-year/
PS Broon PMQ performance truly dismal. He of course couldn't answer any of the points about the bankruptcy of his leadership. Labour MPs look very unhappy. See Gibson Unbound for a summary and also Dizzy.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...: Have just signed.

figure upto 1,618 now.; 5:50 pm
Man in a Shed said...: As I'm off to bed its 3,108 ( and I have only signed once - honest ).; 11:23 pm
Anonymous said...: I would like to sign but won't. In protest at it's use as an effective spamming machine!

I still encourage others too though!; 12:20 am
old and angry said...: Just signed up!
Currently 3285; 9:10 am
Man in a Shed said...: Over 8000 and rising. Now the BBC is reporting on the fact. Will Cameron ask about it next week I wonder ?; 10:54 am

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