Man in a Shed: Blue skys and a green land

There's little point saying much political today. The fight to expose the Lib Dem or suck up to them ( as Peter Mandelson's trying to do right now ) can get by without me just now.

I went along to the Woking Churches together hustings, but I'm going to delay commenting on them for a small bit until the aftermath of the LeadersDebate mk2 is over.

In the mean time - look what aircraft did to the blue skys over Woking on their first day back.

( Note the sky over Woking is blue still, not a depressing yellow. )

Also there's something in the picture below (click to enlarge ).

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