Man in a Shed: Team Cameron

Friday, June 01, 2007

Don't let the sun go down on a quarrel

Team Cameron have made a very big mistake. They may now be realising its scale.

The Conservative party is not the Labour party - at least I hope not.

We will not allow ourselves to be told what to think one morning by party spokespeople.

We will not sacrifice our, or other peoples, children on trendy experimental education policies designed to win over confused Liberal Democrat voters, who are the only group who oppose the effective eduction provided by grammar schools.

If this is getting though to Team Cameron then all well and good - if not then its going to get very messy.

I'm not resigning - its the party of my aspirations and I believe the best hope for all of my fellow citizens. If it really turns out that we have been hijacked then I propose we fight for what we believe in and hold to be true.

It would be better for Team Cameron to make effective peace now.

Never let the sun set on a quarrel between friends - unless we are no longer that.

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