"Dave and George must not repeat that mistake. Everyone knows Britain is again living beyond its means. Everybody knows it cannot go on. And everybody is expecting decisive action after the election."
We want the decisive action now!
Strike that, perhaps we'd be better off with THEM doing it... They can't even be trusted to F*** it up good 'n proper either, THEY can only do "just done up like a kipper" everybody knows that kippers are (just about) palletable.
Dave and George aren't exactly making all the right noises, yet. The means to save money is smaller Government rather than Government on the cheap.
Have the nanny State run up the white flag and bugger off. Less interference. Less busybodying. Less profligacy on welfare payments and management consultants. A simpler tax regime.
I believe the only way to smaller government is to pay people!
A citizens dividend (replacing benefits) with the cost of government taken out of it will sharpen peoples view of the state spending their money.
Nice article! Let's hope hyperinflation will be avoided.
Michael
http://invetrics.com
Wat, the comparison of harold and gordon is indeed relevant and seems to make the point that educated even capable men can make lousy prime ministers particularly when they are hobbled by socialist dogma.
Of equal concern are the capabilities of call-me-dave and georgie. Are they the next ted heath? I fear so. They have no firm commitments to policy that could improve Britain, they seek only to govern by causing the least offense - that will not be good enough. They too are hobbled by socialist dogma, declaring as they have that health and education spending will be maintained, I understand the realities of getting elected but it is madness to believe that substantial savings could not be made in both budgets.
I hope during your sojourn you are also looking around for a shelter from the coming economic storm in Britain, Spain might be OK, if you have your savings in Switzerland
Two plusses for Harold.
1. Keeping us out of Vietnam
2. The Open University - perhaps Labour's finest deed.
Elby - yes, I can forgive Wislon almost everything, because of the OU.
Mr. T. - I haven't been in Spain this year but I can tell you that Stockholm is buzzing, and full of people. Apparently this is due to the "weak" Swedish krona, though looking at the prices in the restaurants, weak is not the first word that springs to mind.
But it's nice to see someone is doing OK.
Unlike Brown, Harold Wilson was chosen by the electorate.
It seems Brown's happy being the media punchbag for Bliar's disastrous policies; the elected Nulabor PM is back in the limelight polishing up his tarnished image in readiness, according to reports, for his 'ear marked' role as next EU President. Those funding his salary are barred from voting - British taxpayers !
I just have a small nagging fear that Brown is not quite out of it yet, as far as the election is concerned.
He will of course hang on in office no matter what as long as he can (on his way out of No 10 there will be claw marks along the wallpaper); the man is so deluded he believes the naked figure in the mirror is really very well-dressed indeed. But it is just possible the economy, or more particularly, the world market, will rally enough for him to go to the polls in just under a year's time claiming it was all him.
He sees himself as a man of vision, and probably Al-Beeb and The Grauniad will pump up the volume on his "achievements" and blind us with staggering statistics that hide the plain, unvarnished truth of so many years of sleaze, corruption and dogma masquerading as intelligent life.
The net result may be Broon will get more votes than he is entitled to, unless Cam and the rest manage to help us remember what a disgusting pile of old weasel droppings Labour is.
Personally I'd like to think Labour would never ever be elected into office again, but with so many luvvie-wimps and fawning media types on their side, it may all turn out to be a lot closer than I'd like.
Cascadian
Hi good to see you here again - your comments are as usual sadly true. Trouble now - is there anywhere in the world left to go that isn't going to be made bankrupt by taxing CO2 ??? madness ( I must calm down I am breathing out too much CO2) - especially as it looks less likely to have any effect on anything. If you have any good suggestions let me know.
Closer to home though - the government annoucments of the last couple of days - spending more money we have not got, plus seeking to wear the Tories clothes, must make Dave & George wary of giving Labour policy ideas - they just pinch them in the hope we will be fooled.
Still, on the bright side, I will be able to see a Cancer Specialist in 14 days or sue the NHS. If there isn't an NHS specialist to see in 14 days I will be sent private - unfortunately as they are often the same specialist we will .........
I think you are all intelligent enough to fill spaces. Just another set of NuLieBour spin
yes, the OU is great, but the New Labour equivalent is Learndirect (aka UFI) which has swallowed well over a billion of taxpayer's money to date.
Retired Dave,
In this crazy world when you vote conservative you get socialist policy, vote liebour, and as you are finding out, you get recycled east german policy. If its change and sane fiscal policy not tied to Kyoto/climate change that you want try China or India!
Britain unfortunately is in its demographic death spiral - too few working age people to support the upcoming wave of retirees, deadbeats and unemployed, as recently announced by ONS. Europe is in the same situation, Africa is still a basket case, the US is busily flirting with hyperinflation, the middle east despite petro-wealth remains stuck in the middle ages. So selected parts of Asia it is or Australia.
Don't worry about liebour stealing daves policy that would be the smallest theft in history, and anyway would turn out to be written by Hugh Gaitskell.
Cascadian
Oh Dear - it is my birthday today (born the same day as Debby Harry) and I hoped you were going to tell me something soothing. Never mind.
Problem is - are you sure Oz isn't going to be afflicted by CO2 tax drain. When I was in Oz last year I was picked up at Cairns airport by a Toyota Pious (sorry Prius)Taxi (we are reducing our carbon foorprint don't you know)- problem was you could clearly see all the cargo ships taking thousands of tons of coal to China, and Oz still uses mainly coal for generating electricity. I have been following the suggested Emmissions Trading Legistration - is that really defeated???? At least Oz has people speaking out against it, as you suggest they all meekly fall into the same line here, queing up to deliver madness.
The bottom line though is that all UK governments of the last 50 years have been crap, and I always vote for the least damaging (sad isn't it) - Labour, especially the current crop, are uniquely unfit to even run a burger stall. I don't think UK people want too many big ideas - they just want someone to administer the country without taking half our money in tax, and pouring a third down the nearest grid
"is there anywhere in the world left to go that isn't going to be made bankrupt by taxing CO2"??
Yup - India and China.
Andrew Duffin
Yes that's why the Great Gordo is going to give the developing nations (incl India and China) £60bn of our money each year - you couldn't make it up.
Retired Dave, happy birthday, were you in Canada you could take a paid day off every year - Dominion day statutory holiday (like a bank holiday).
I take your point about Australia, like many other countries they are currently infected with a socialist government but common sense seems to prevail eventually. They also have the advantage of a fairly young population to support their social systems in the future and a huge natural resource base to draw upon to pay their way. Britain has neither of these.
BTW did you notice how after georgie stated they would maintain humanitarian donations that gordo ups the bid to 60B of non existent cash? That in a nutshell typifies your problem-both parties want to be more socialist than the other.
Cascadian
Thanks for your wishes - yes I was well aware of Dominion Day. I have good Vancouver connections. My Mother-in-Law who sadly passed this last week was born in Mission BC in 1925 and My Grandmother spent her last 30 years after retirement in Vancouver. I have been there a few times, the first time the year of the Commonwealth and Empire Games (how times have changed)in 1954. You will have worked out that I was 9 at the time, if you know anything of Debby Harry.
Yes I agree with your analysis of the UK, but I have said before that the Tories have been wary of moving from the middle ground. I think people might actually stand that now but aversion therapy takes some shifting.
You are right about our demographics - but it is even worse in France and Germany (and Russia of course) but the UK has decided to even it all up by giving the next couple of generations here a massive amount of debt to pay back.
The UK is now like a blind man who got halfway across Niagra Falls on a tightrope before he realised - it is difficult to get off now.
As they used to say - if you wanted to get to Edinburgh, you wouldn't start from here.
Retired Dave, its a small world I live about 50km from Mission, 10km from Vancouver.
And that is why I can comfortably rant about Britain.
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