Man in a Shed: How the Conservative party abandoned conviction

Thursday, November 22, 2012

How the Conservative party abandoned conviction

This is a must read from George Bridges on how the Blairite moral lobotomy has hollowed out the Conservative party.

I recommend a reading, though I think the time for conviction politics is soon to return.

The only problem is ambitious people like #RedEd Miliband are picking this up on the focus groups and trying to impersonate them.

2 comments:

Elby the Beserk said...: "How to Conservative party abondoned conviction" is gibberish. Sorry!

And how can one read whatever it is you are proposing we read without a link to it?!; 2:01 pm
Man in a Shed said...: Thanks ETB - it doesn't make sense without the link.

All typed out in too much of a rush I'm afraid - just as everyone heading to school / work. ( Busy week - hence the attempted link. )

Hopefully it makes more sense now.

The Bridges article is well worth a read.; 4:15 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