Man in a Shed: Knaphill

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Fighting talk from councillor Melanie Whitehand

What to do when the local Lib Dem starts peddling lines you think are untrue ? ( And lets face it a lot of people have this problem. )

Go the the bottom of the Woking Conservatives Web Site to see Councillor Melanie Whitehand giving her opponent both barrels.

Why do Lib Dems do it ? Don't they have any self respect or shame ?

Is this the case all over the country or just in Woking ? How many people have they mislead ? Why would anyone think this was an acceptable way to carry out politics ?

PS Since its clearly open season on Fib Dems here's more of Melanie's handy work.

Further There was a time when local Conservatives just thought the Lib Dems would be found out eventually, but as we know from other campaigns a lie travels a long way before the truth gets out of the door. If this type of politics continues then rapid rebuttal is going to become a regular feature.

I don't think the public really likes this style of politics and it would be much better if all sides could agree to put their case forward clearly and let the voters decide. But equally allowing the Fib Dems a free hand is not an option any more.

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