tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post4036283973504588931..comments2023-12-11T08:49:46.305+00:00Comments on Dizzy Thinks: Seeing it coming but going along for the ride?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-27422973980150111782008-11-23T08:39:00.000+00:002008-11-23T08:39:00.000+00:00Phil, I do NOT see where “Brown's admitted his mis...Phil, I do NOT see where “Brown's admitted his mistake” per Fraser's headline.<BR/><BR/>Brown said “Yes. Of course politicians make mistakes and I've got to be honest that we've made mistakes.”<BR/><BR/>Brown has generalised that “politicians” make mistakes. So that is ALL politicians. Nothing to do with him specifically, except insofar as he might also be a member of that tribe.<BR/><BR/>“I've got to be honest” - a sure sign of the opposite.<BR/><BR/>“that we've made mistakes” - “we” is NOT “I”. So who is “we” ? Answer : all politicians, which leaves hanging though unspoken “such as Thatcher who blah blah, Major who diddle-di-dum, even Blair who rada-rada”. <BR/><BR/>There is not a shred of Brown accepting that HE made a specific mistake peculiar only to him, nor of any remorse or apology. And there can’t be - Brown is so delusional that to him it is inconceivable that HE could make a mistake - to do so would shatter him, in effect kill him - he is asserting rightness, as he always has. There is nothing else in his universe.<BR/><BR/>Alan Douglas<BR/><BR/>WV : inglogicAlan Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16071898364060640779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-14169088885652127232008-11-22T23:51:00.000+00:002008-11-22T23:51:00.000+00:00Interesting to note that Darling and Brown want th...Interesting to note that Darling and Brown want the banks to increase lending.<BR/><BR/>Now we are told that debt is bad, yet lending is good - can someone explain this for me?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-49990188406422911322008-11-22T22:50:00.000+00:002008-11-22T22:50:00.000+00:00There is a lot to discus in this post. Firstly I ...There is a lot to discus in this post. Firstly I want to blow my own trumpet. In 1997 I was scheduled and prepared to give a presentation to a bunch of accountants. It was the day Brown announced the taxation of pension funds. I knew immediately that New Labour was Old Labour and intent on tax and spend and that we were financialy doomed, and so it has proved. Of course no-one listens to me as I am just a small FS bloke from the Styx.<BR/><BR/>As far as I understand it every goverment except Thatcher but especially Labour has wilfully misinterpreted Keynes. He recommended that extra government spending in times of crisis would be a Good Thing - Labour have intepreted that as being that big government spending was beneficial at all times. Cobblers.<BR/><BR/>Brown / Blair are / were total politics. Nothing they have done or will do has anything really to do with boosting the UK. Generally their policies and actions have been to do with marginalising the Tories and creating a client state. The whole New Labour 'project' is about creating an impression of competence and persuading the Voter that black = White. And they have been very successful at this.<BR/><BR/>We now stand at a crossroads for the future where we either head down a road defined by bureaucratic capitalism or we branch off own the more sunlit lane of freedom and liberty.<BR/><BR/>I have never been more worried in my life that we may end up on the wrong dark road.Lolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04586735342675041312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-58939917316510262732008-11-22T21:06:00.000+00:002008-11-22T21:06:00.000+00:00What's Brown's election pitch going to be? Vote fo...What's Brown's election pitch going to be? Vote for him for more disastrous economic policies?<BR/><BR/>He's got the boom and bust, which he always said there'd be no going back to, and he's heading towards the 3 million unemployed too...Armchair Sceptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06700172701458170654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-18930679613009370822008-11-22T15:37:00.000+00:002008-11-22T15:37:00.000+00:00But services have been reduced. Not only are ther...But services have been reduced. Not only are there many fewer hospital beds but a lot of hospitals have lost major services to others. The so-called 14 Priority Services means effectively running down or privatising the rest. Are you old and need carers? Fat chance for most. Are you disabled and need extras support? YOu must be joking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-60697919763038408772008-11-22T15:03:00.000+00:002008-11-22T15:03:00.000+00:00I see someone has pinched my moniker. Let it be k...I see someone has pinched my moniker. Let it be known that I am the true and original Cassius (apart from the one in "Julius Caesar").<BR/><BR/>But I do not have any copyright, dammit, so I'd better assume another nom de plume. Grumble, grumble.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-43743335171653107202008-11-22T12:02:00.000+00:002008-11-22T12:02:00.000+00:00"massive rise in the tax-free threshold at the bot..."massive rise in the tax-free threshold at the bottom of the income ladder, something which is much needed."<BR/><BR/>Hear, hear!<BR/><BR/>By reducing the "wedge" between what employers pay and what employees receive, this would lower unemployment at a stroke.<BR/><BR/>It would also encourage more civilised hours for more employees, thus improving work/life balance. It would be fairer, since it would put honest poorly paid workers on the same field as those in the black market. It would encourage people off benefits by increasing the returns from working.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-34394442742634037882008-11-22T11:21:00.000+00:002008-11-22T11:21:00.000+00:00While we are at it, why not turn the whole persona...While we are at it, why not turn the whole personal data thing around. The more data government collects and stores, the more wasteful uses they find and the more they spend.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://cassiuswrites.blogspot.com/2008/11/modest-proposal.html" REL="nofollow"><BR/>http://cassiuswrites.blogspot.com/2008/11/modest-proposal.html</A><BR/><BR/>If this recession has any silver lining at all, it's the potential opportunity to regain some personal freedoms and turn Government back into the service provider & safety net they ought to be, rather than the Frankenstein dictatorate which Labour have created.Cassiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04197795933720433760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-81898513297076205802008-11-22T11:17:00.000+00:002008-11-22T11:17:00.000+00:00Unfortunately our glorious unelected Leader is suc...Unfortunately our glorious unelected Leader is such a self serving political animal that he has painted himself into a corner with all his mantra about whatever he does is right.<BR/>Common sense would dictate that ID cards be at least put on hold to allow those funds to be diverted elsewhere.<BR/>As you so rightly point out dizzy, there are a whole tier of non-jobs that could be cut to free up government funds.<BR/>Instead of doing the right thing on Monday we will have the usual smoke & mirrors budget designed to make OGUL look good at the Tories and unfortunately our expense as well.Barnacle Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17257546424880537005noreply@blogger.com