Man in a Shed: How much does a full page advert in the Economist cost ?

Saturday, February 13, 2010

How much does a full page advert in the Economist cost ?

Because if your a UK tax payer you just bought one to say this ( click on it to get the full size, but be prepared top weep ):This is where you tax payer's money goes.

There's plenty of scope for cuts lads and lasses.

7 comments:

tao_taier said...: They even got the Senior Minister of Labour from China in their list....................; 9:16 pm
JohnRS said...: ....and have you noticed that none of them (apart from one guy at BAe) has a "proper job"?

The EU really only understands how to suck on the public teat. Real wealth generation, job creation, growth and prosperity are beyond them all. If it doesnt come out of the public purse they don't seem able to recognise it.; 9:40 pm
Mark Wadsworth said...: Excellent find.

Those people just signed their own death warrant ... oh, hang on, I'm not going to be in power any time soon. Ah well/; 10:49 pm
Mark Wadsworth said...: Their accounts show that they merrily burned their way through £79 million of taxpayers' finest in their first year.; 10:52 pm
James Higham said...: The bstds have no right to fritter away our money. Only a bit over 80 days and they're out.; 11:43 am
Demetrius said...: I was trying to calculate the cost of all this lot and how it might impact on the ordinary taxpayer. But I ran out of noughts.; 1:09 pm
Elby the Beserk said...: Oh aye, plenty of scope for cuts, starting with the public sector ads in the Guardian (which we pay for) which are all online anyway (which we pay for).

Cheerio Guardian - what a shame you got so shit that you had to rely on a taxpayers' subsidy.; 1:15 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