Man in a Shed: Conservative conference 2011

Monday, September 19, 2011

Anger management

Over the last few months I've been getting progressively more fed up with David Cameron, the Conservative party in general and the European Union in particular.

Angry enough to change a habit of a life time.

Does someone at CCHQ have a device that can detect this level if disquiet in the ranks ?

I ask as suddenly my ears are ringing with Eurosceptic dog whistle noises. Its no enough to drown out the annoyance of the Liberal Democrat Fiasco in the media just now, but its loud neither the less.

What I ask myself is if what's really happening is I'm being managed - along with thousands of other Conservative activists - to get us over our current wave of fury. I suspect the answer is perhaps yes.

Note to CCHQ - we'll be watching announced policy, not William Hague making jokes or trying to sing to Eurosceptic mood music. This really could be our last waltz ...

See also Will Heaven "I'm sick of the 1922 Committee threatening to rebel, then rolling over to have their tummies tickled by David Cameron"

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