Man in a Shed: Senator Ted Kennedy a friend of Britain ?

Sorry, despite the BBC's love in and Gordon's tears I have this man marked down as an implacable enemy of our country.

Only the self loathing Labour party could make such a man a knight.

Maybe he had good points ( driving in a straight line over bridges clearly not being one of them ), but as a UK citizen I'm not sad to see the back of the political enemy he represented.

May he rest in peace, but I refuse to mourn.

See also: Adrian Michaels: "Spare me the beatification of Teddy Kennedy".

And Wat Tyler is somewhat less than convinced about St Ted also....

Ed West "IRA sympathiser Ted Kennedy was no friend of Britain ",

The Daily Mail Comment "Ted Kennedy loathed Britain - so why did Gordon Brown knight him?"

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