So I set up a blog, I linked into the adsense program run by google and earned a whole £1.76 in click through adverts. So those people who read my blog and clicked on an ad at the side I thank you.
You will see there now are no more adverts, because my account was suspended for inappropriate clicking!
So the blog is no more, my support of the evil is gone and I will sail off into the sunset. Yes I did appeal and a faceless cretin upheld their decision.
Adios
Monday, 31 October 2011
Thursday, 7 April 2011
The story of Edanomics
If only this was a fairy tale, in truth it's a horror story.
Back in 1997 when the "New Labour" boys go the keys to the treasury they took one look around and said we have won the lottery!
Conservatives were mired in so much sleaze there was no way back for at least 2 sessions so there was 8-10 years of making hay time. So they took one look at the ever increasing tax revenues and decided to go for Gordons socialist agenda, Tony was more interested in feathering his nest for the lecture tours when he left No10, so Tony went off making friends in high places leaving Gordon and Ed in charge of the UK PLC credit card, because even back then the UK did not have any cash, just our word we would pay it back "sometime"
Everything was rosy. Light hand on the tiller, start to use the credit card, with the caveat of "Balance the budget over the fiscal period" When things started to look a little tight one month they came up with the old accountants trick of "off balance book funding" or the dreaded Public Private Partnership. Where the private sector builds a hospital and rents it back to the Public Sector at a profit of course. So they had managed to finance the Ferrari on the credit card and call it monthly instalments. Nice!
Now cast your mind back to the days of the 1.70 euro days, remember them? The money boys do not like to lose money so they looked at UK PLC and said, the money you are borrowing has to be paid back "sometime", so they started to sell £'s so pushing the pound lower. Did this increase exports? Er no! Take note Mr Osbourne, you need a manufacturing base to do that! So the money boys decided the Euro zone was a better bet than UK PLC, yes its true, the Euro zone was a better bet than UK PLC.
But the boys in the treasury were not worried, for Gordon had proclaimed he had abolished "Boom and Bust" so they continued their merry little spending spree, bribing voters with shiny projects, remember Gordons favourite "x billions to this scheme, x billions to that scheme" the same money mind, with Ed grinning like a young Prescott behind him.
So 2008 and Tony has seen the writing on the wall and bails out, leaving Gordon his dream job of PM. Then the world realises what normal people have known all along "sometime" is now and meltdown happens. With Gordon & Ed in charge the £ against the Euro crashes to almost parity, 70% down from its peak! So realising they are beaten they leave a smoking gun cleverly disguised in the small print of Treasury documents of projects that they had announced with no means to fund it.
Fast forward to 2011, Ed has re invented himself and professes to Keynesian Economics. This basically states in years where tax take is high government spending is reduced, ready to borrow when times get tough. So we are OK to keep spanking the credit card in Eds eyes. In Eds time in the Treasury they spent £350 billion more than what they got in. That was not in a recession where spending is deemed necessary in Keynesian Economics but in the boom years. So when the bust came, we had a maxed out credit card, payments on the Ferraris still coming in and we have some serious decisions to make.
So the next time Ed says he knows anything about the economy ask him this, "as an advocate of Keynesian Economics which years were the highest tax takes and by how much did you reduce sovereign debt?"
If I were a Tory MP I would love to keep Ed at the treasury, he is an incompetent buffoon as proven by his already shameful economic record.
Thanks for reading, remember we are all in this together and Gordon? He agrees with Nick!
Back in 1997 when the "New Labour" boys go the keys to the treasury they took one look around and said we have won the lottery!
Conservatives were mired in so much sleaze there was no way back for at least 2 sessions so there was 8-10 years of making hay time. So they took one look at the ever increasing tax revenues and decided to go for Gordons socialist agenda, Tony was more interested in feathering his nest for the lecture tours when he left No10, so Tony went off making friends in high places leaving Gordon and Ed in charge of the UK PLC credit card, because even back then the UK did not have any cash, just our word we would pay it back "sometime"
Everything was rosy. Light hand on the tiller, start to use the credit card, with the caveat of "Balance the budget over the fiscal period" When things started to look a little tight one month they came up with the old accountants trick of "off balance book funding" or the dreaded Public Private Partnership. Where the private sector builds a hospital and rents it back to the Public Sector at a profit of course. So they had managed to finance the Ferrari on the credit card and call it monthly instalments. Nice!
Now cast your mind back to the days of the 1.70 euro days, remember them? The money boys do not like to lose money so they looked at UK PLC and said, the money you are borrowing has to be paid back "sometime", so they started to sell £'s so pushing the pound lower. Did this increase exports? Er no! Take note Mr Osbourne, you need a manufacturing base to do that! So the money boys decided the Euro zone was a better bet than UK PLC, yes its true, the Euro zone was a better bet than UK PLC.
But the boys in the treasury were not worried, for Gordon had proclaimed he had abolished "Boom and Bust" so they continued their merry little spending spree, bribing voters with shiny projects, remember Gordons favourite "x billions to this scheme, x billions to that scheme" the same money mind, with Ed grinning like a young Prescott behind him.
So 2008 and Tony has seen the writing on the wall and bails out, leaving Gordon his dream job of PM. Then the world realises what normal people have known all along "sometime" is now and meltdown happens. With Gordon & Ed in charge the £ against the Euro crashes to almost parity, 70% down from its peak! So realising they are beaten they leave a smoking gun cleverly disguised in the small print of Treasury documents of projects that they had announced with no means to fund it.
Fast forward to 2011, Ed has re invented himself and professes to Keynesian Economics. This basically states in years where tax take is high government spending is reduced, ready to borrow when times get tough. So we are OK to keep spanking the credit card in Eds eyes. In Eds time in the Treasury they spent £350 billion more than what they got in. That was not in a recession where spending is deemed necessary in Keynesian Economics but in the boom years. So when the bust came, we had a maxed out credit card, payments on the Ferraris still coming in and we have some serious decisions to make.
So the next time Ed says he knows anything about the economy ask him this, "as an advocate of Keynesian Economics which years were the highest tax takes and by how much did you reduce sovereign debt?"
If I were a Tory MP I would love to keep Ed at the treasury, he is an incompetent buffoon as proven by his already shameful economic record.
Thanks for reading, remember we are all in this together and Gordon? He agrees with Nick!
Edanomics
More brilliant Edanomics from your Shadow Chancellor Mr Balls.
He said that despite having a bigger deficit than Portugal, Britain was "so different" as it had "low national debt", low interest rates and was not a member of the euro.
The same UK which had £325billion of debt when Labour came to power in 1997 and £725billion when it left, courtesy of a certain Gordon Brown and Ed Balls
The same "Pro-European" Ed Balls who thinks the Euro is worth joining!
Only in LaLaLabour Land!
Government & Red Tape are bedfellows
I have to wonder about this new initiative asking business to give examples of red tape which is hurting the UK. http://www.bis.gov.uk/news/topstories/2011/Apr/red-tape-challenge. Is this not the same party of which their leader stood up and said one regulation out before one can come in?
Ok then, once this red tape is identified what will happen about it?
They have already proven they are impotent. "We cannot have two rates of duty for fuel as the EU will not allow it!"
If business comes back and says the biggest barrier is red tape from the EU they will just shrug it off and I will have wasted my time.
The old adage of if you are not going to listen to the answer, do not ask the question has never been clearer. I run a small business and I could give numerous examples of red tape strangulation. But why bother? Government has proven it will not listen. These distractions of making it seem they are doing something is a smoke screen for what they really are, slaves of the EU.
Ok then, once this red tape is identified what will happen about it?
They have already proven they are impotent. "We cannot have two rates of duty for fuel as the EU will not allow it!"
If business comes back and says the biggest barrier is red tape from the EU they will just shrug it off and I will have wasted my time.
The old adage of if you are not going to listen to the answer, do not ask the question has never been clearer. I run a small business and I could give numerous examples of red tape strangulation. But why bother? Government has proven it will not listen. These distractions of making it seem they are doing something is a smoke screen for what they really are, slaves of the EU.
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
The Big Society!
Big Society? I am so confused, if we have a government who wants to be smaller in terms of its involvement in society, then how can it champion a cause called Big Society? Is government now not part of our society? Perhaps it should be called Little Brother, or Littler Brother? Or perhaps, Parliment now Irrelevant in Serving Society Poor, as the EU now rules the UK anyway? Coffee break over, back to work ;-)
The brighter side!
Looking on the bright side for a moment. Across from me there is an almost dead tree. A small bird has found a hole in it and seems to be about to set up home in there.
Morale of the story? Dead wood is not always useless!
Morale of the story? Dead wood is not always useless!
Monday, 21 March 2011
#FuelDuty2High
Try this to really get into the politicians. Use the power of twitter to do this.
@Your MP's Name @nick_clegg @number10gov I have just filled up with £XX of fuel. This is my protest at #FuelDuty2High
You can of course use their email address or facebook page. Once they get their little Blackberries chirping away every 2 minutes they will soon get the message and inconvenience them and put it at the top of their agenda. Or you can sit on your arse and complain about it, then you deserve high fuel prices because you left it to someone else.
@Your MP's Name @nick_clegg @number10gov I have just filled up with £XX of fuel. This is my protest at #FuelDuty2High
You can of course use their email address or facebook page. Once they get their little Blackberries chirping away every 2 minutes they will soon get the message and inconvenience them and put it at the top of their agenda. Or you can sit on your arse and complain about it, then you deserve high fuel prices because you left it to someone else.
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Basic economics is beyond the Shadow Chancellor
After watching Ed Balls on Newsnight last night (16th March 2011) I have to come to the conclusion that basic economics is beyond the Shadow Chancellor.
He basically said that, you don't try to pay off your mortgage in 4 years you pay it off over 20 or so. Very good Ed and quite correct. However, as shadow chancellor I would expect him to know that the deficit is what we are adding to our mortgage. The "mortgage" UK PLC has is £trillions, (those boom years of 1997 - 2008 and record tax take? blown it and a few billion more!) UK PLC are currently on an interest only mortgage and the interest on the original mortgage is adding each and every year by the amount of the deficit.
To put it into Ed speak. It is like having a maxed out credit card and not even making the minimum payments to cover the interest being charged, therefore the debt goes up.
He basically said that, you don't try to pay off your mortgage in 4 years you pay it off over 20 or so. Very good Ed and quite correct. However, as shadow chancellor I would expect him to know that the deficit is what we are adding to our mortgage. The "mortgage" UK PLC has is £trillions, (those boom years of 1997 - 2008 and record tax take? blown it and a few billion more!) UK PLC are currently on an interest only mortgage and the interest on the original mortgage is adding each and every year by the amount of the deficit.
To put it into Ed speak. It is like having a maxed out credit card and not even making the minimum payments to cover the interest being charged, therefore the debt goes up.
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Wake up call!
After my ranting and raving over the last week or so I have been given the biggest reality slap you could imagine. Someone I do not know is on Twitter and has 6-12 months to live as he has been diagnosed with cancer. He has a wife and 2 kids aged 2 and 7.
So my rant and rave over FuelDuty2High is put into perspective. I will be here in another 12 months able to complain about anything. This guys wife and kids will have only memories.
So my rant and rave over FuelDuty2High is put into perspective. I will be here in another 12 months able to complain about anything. This guys wife and kids will have only memories.
Monday, 14 March 2011
Have you seen the price of fuel lately?
Once again today I have filled up with diesel and seen prices from 133.9 to 143.9 a litre on the A1. I am sure many more people will have driven past these same signs as me and unlike me done precisely sod all about it. The politicians must be stunned that they are getting away with raking in all this extra VAT and fuel duty with barely a whimper from Joe Public. It is against this background HMRC Tax Thieves (aka The Treasury) are deciding what to tax more in the upcoming budget. All I can say is if we carry on as we have been, as passive doormats we will get what we deserve in the budget. So either put up a fight or shut the F8%$ up about FuelDuty2High. Good citizens of the UK, show the politicians who are running this country, that you can make a difference! Goodnight!
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