Man in a Shed: Calls for England to get a vote

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Calls for England to get a vote

Tim Luckhurst - The Times 7 May 2008
John Redwood - blog 7 May 2008
And this blog also - 5 May 2008
Wonkotsane - The CEP Blog - 2 May 2008
Sepoy agent -blog - 9May2008

Anywhere else ?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Yes,I blogged on this last night following James Purnell's performance on Question Time.
He said "We can work out what's best for each country", but didn't bother to include England.; 8:43 pm
Man in a Shed said...: There was a great question from an Asian man on why only England got discriminated against.

Another guy was thinking about asking for the vote - but then bottled it and said let the Scots sort it out themselves - Ming Campbell sat back in his chair with a grin on his face as he heard that.

They are scared of this issue and we need to keep raising it - I'm over to you blog in a min to see what you said.; 8:58 pm
Man in a Shed said...: Yep - agree with your post !; 9:01 pm

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