Man in a Shed: On Andy Coulson

I'm just wondering who's media grid launching the political smear attack on Andy Coulson via the Guardian is on.

We know Labour have dirty tricks units setting up, and this sort of smear and innuendo stuff is just the sort of operation they have run in the past.

I have no idea of Mr Coulson's involvement in doing the electronic equivalent of going through peoples bins by tabloid journalists. However it now turns out that the Guardian had no new evidence and the police see nothing to make any further investigations about.

Right now this looks like muck racking from Labour.

Its going to be a dirty nasty campaign to eject the unelected Scottish socialist destroyer of our economy from office and all his nasty but expensive hangers on.

PS What are the odds on the Prince of Darkness being involved in this one ? It has his style.

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