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WS Churchill's Words of Warning:
"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves".
Too True
"That such an unnecessary and irrational project as building a European superstate was ever embarked upon will seem in future years to be perhaps the greatest folly of the modern era.”
Margaret Thatcher Statecraft (Published 2002)
Margaret Thatcher Statecraft (Published 2002)
The All-Time Best Daily Mash
Banking crisis caused by woman
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/banking-crisis-caused-by-woman--201105203842
On Limited Government
"We are a nation with a government, not the other way round".
Reagan, inaugural speech, Jan 20 1981
Reagan, inaugural speech, Jan 20 1981
(Interim) Last Word on the Subject
Stated briefly, I will simply try to clarify what the debate over climate change is really about. It most certainly is not about whether climate is changing: it always is. It is not about whether CO2 is increasing: it clearly is. It is not about whether the increase in CO2, by itself, will lead to some warming: it should. The debate is simply over the matter of how much warming the increase in CO2 can lead to, and the connection of such warming to the innumerable claimed catastrophes. The evidence is that the increase in CO2 will lead to very little warming, and that the connection of this minimal warming (or even significant warming) to the purported catastrophes is also minimal. The arguments on which the catastrophic claims are made are extremely weak – and commonly acknowledged as such. They are sometimes overtly dishonest.
Prof Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Atmospheric Brainbox of the World
Prof Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Atmospheric Brainbox of the World
Idolatry
Idle Reading
- Apricotfox
- Blue Eyes
- British Toastracks
- CityUnslicker
- Credit Writedowns
- Daniel Hannan
- Delingpole
- Drudge
- E-K
- Englishman's Castle
- Guido
- H Girl
- His Grace
- Lakelander
- Liddle
- Lil
- Norman Tebbit
- Political Betting
- Political Cartoons
- Politics Home
- Raedwald
- RealClearPolitics
- Scrobs
- Speccie
- Steyn
- The Corner
- The Daily Mash
- Theo Spark
- Thud
- Tuscan Tony
- Voyage to the Sargasso Sea
- Watts Up
- Wm Gruff
9 comments:
Iders, he is the only hope we have of kicking the Brown disaster into history.
Believe me, I'm feeling the same, but as I get older, I want those champagne socialists to fret like we've had to over the last few years.
I have control over what we're doing - to a certain extent, all I feel is hatred for the spongers at Westminster, and especially those like Ed Balls and that Jobsworth chappy, you know, the pillock who can't string two words together.
He'll get his comeuppance.
Disgraceful.
"Iders, he is the only hope we have of kicking the Brown disaster into history."
I disagree Scrobs on the grounds that the Tories are not intending to do anything remarkably different, only make life worse for those who would feel it most - the poorer section of society. They will not take us out of the EU so our future will still be subject to EU law. No change to the cap. No significant change in immigration, education, NHS or public services.
With the Edlington boys in the news Cameron has used that vile incident to justify greater interference into family life should he so wish. Something the Conservatives should be fighting against - big State.
In fact public opinion fired up by that incident has drawn all sorts of vile opinions out of the woodwork some put forward by mainstream journos who use that incident - of two boys from a two parent family - as evidence to remove benefits from single parent families. No, there's no logic, no humanity and no real benefit to society or the economy by using these means. It's simply prejudice time. And Cameron will pander to the most popular. In fact I think Cameron would say anything to gain office.
I really might vote Labour.
Then again Blues and Iders might suggest lunch if I did, cover me in syrup and tie me by a wasp nest.
"the Tories are not intending to do anything remarkably different, only make life worse for those who would feel it most - the poorer section of society".
I couldn't disagree more, pip. Any Conservative government, however toothless, improves the economy, the lot of the unemployed, reduces state intervention, taxation and regulation. It creates wealth, which even if you think falls into the wrong hands, gets spent on domestic workers, artisans and in consumption, boosting VAT receipts. Even those who have no part in the previous sentence have their safety net funded.
I wish the Tories had the nerve to appeal to the millions of people who voted for Thatcher and who no longer vote, by espousing Common Sense policies which enthuse those who have opted out of our political system.
You reckon the Labour party is the party of the poor? Go to Govan, Oldham, Haringey and Doncaster. Look around. Then come back and tell us how good a job they are doing.
How is it going to do those good things, Idle? I see no evidence.
*deafening sound of silence*
Forgive the silence. Busy not being idle.
It'll do it by reducing the deficit faster than the other lot, by cutting corporation tax to wealth-creation-inducing levels, by rolling back the state from its counterproductive meddling in people's affairs and encoraging the client state of Labour to wean itself off welfarism.
Most importantly, it threatens a revolution in schooling, which will benefit the state sector uniquely.
It will treat Europe with scepticism and refuse to endorse the worst socialist legislation from Brussels.
It will champion localism and increase civility. It will reduce immigration and appease the incomers much less than the current mob.
It won't do any of this as much as I wish it to, but it will be a tiny step in the right direction.
Always, Idle. I rather hoped it was because you saw no evidence. But whilst I agree with all you say I think they will claw back the deficit at the expense of the poorest in society and I think that's wrong. And like you I would rather see bigger steps in some areas but we shall see. Promises and reality in politics don't tend to match up.
Idle: I think your leap to cynicism is about twelve months away.
Philipa: You're not so very wide of the mark, although I'd question your use of 'wrong'.
PS: If you'd like to be tied up and covered in honey next to a wasp's nest I can oblige, although I'd advise you to ask for smouldering brands at your feet.
Bill - can I have smouldering brands at my feet?
(it really is bloody cold)
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