Man in a Shed: Maternity wards

Thursday, May 08, 2008

Labour trail 26% behind - and plan to close maternity wards and cancer clinics !!!

You couldn't make this stuff up. The Conservatives have a 26% opinion poll lead ( so not just those who bothered to turn out to vote in the local election eh ..).

And at the same time Labour are planning on closing (which is what merging means) maternity and cancer units !

Maybe there a plan and justification for it - but good politics it isn't.

They held this news back from leaking before the local elections in the hope of keeping their vote up (25%) - wow things really are bad.

PS The 26% opinion poll hasn't turned up on any BBC news reporting I've seen yet (11:17pm) - they really are Labours best and only remaining friend.

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