Man in a Shed: Anyone know what this is ?

This is not your usual post.

Does anyone have any idea what this light aluminium ( I assume ) bar is ? I found the bracket in the middle on the bonnet of the car and the bar a few feet away.

They definitely weren't there the day before.
Any ideas what it came from ? The ends have been flattened and it looks like some sort of spacer made by rolling a sheet of aluminium into a bar.

PS Its just occurred to me that this might be TV aerial related - off outside to look at the chimney !
Ah ha - this looks about right. I'm guessing it had another bar on it before some overweight pigeon tried to land on it.

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.

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