Man in a Shed: Its that time of year again

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Its that time of year again

Iain Dale and his minions over at Total Politics are doing their blog ranking thing again.

I'd like to say I don't care - but like everyone else I'll be looking at the results.

My advice is be honest - rank the blogs you actually read and like, even if they're run by confused Fib Dems and deluded Lefties.

The rules etc are explained by the 47 not out blog father himself here.

You have till 31st July.

Personally I think this could turn into a bit of a farse as years go on - like the BBC Radio 4 personality of the year vote. You Total Politics guys need to get some real-time info - like a hit counter or something to put on blogs - but then I guess Wikio politics already do that.

I bet this will be the first year serrious manipulation of the results is tried. If Dolly was still about you'd know he'd try.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: It is farcical - 'keyboard monkeys' are unidentifiable and will be duly despatched to perform.; 10:13 am

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"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