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4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Ryan Shorthouse: What ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Absolutely! That is why we shouldn't take other people's money for crackpot political projects, why we should encourage charity and kindness and why we should cooperate through peaceful commerce.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Ryan Shorthouse: What ... · 2 replies · +1 points

There is no Government money, no state subsidy and no magic money tree. All there is is taxpayer's money. Stop redistributing it and let people keep it and save and leave it to their children what they earn.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The Supreme Court's ru... · 1 reply · +1 points

Oh I missed that - thank you. Don't quite see why an act of the monarchy is not a proceeding if the queen is the queen-in-parliament though. I suppose it isn't "in Parlyament" physically but it the advice from the Prime Minister and the monarch are acting out their roles as part of Parliament. Did they expand on that idea?

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The Supreme Court's ru... · 3 replies · +1 points

Very good article. What stands out to me is that the judges look at the arguments when Parliament was opposed to the King, but seem, astonishingly, to ignore the law defined after all that in the peace settlement after the restoration, which is surely the superior authority and should be the guiding light: "That the Freedome of Speech and Debates or Proceedings in Parlyament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Court or Place out of Parlyament. " The Bill of Rights says taht the courts cannot question proceedings in Parliament.

This endorses and augments Mr Goodman's argument. The learned cabal is not so learned.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Neil O'Brien: How to r... · 0 replies · +1 points

It wouldn't

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - James Cooper: Turbo-ch... · 0 replies · +1 points

Absolutely. Productivity is often such a false and indirect measure of anything. Even if one thinks GDP is useful - as it is just a measure of spending and not of product - GDP per UK working hour and GDP per number of UK workers is even more fraught with difficulty as a useful notion, unless on a tiny and particular aspect of a production line.

It all reminds me of working in the public sector where one is encouraged to put up with significant doses of nonsense to meet a target at the expense of actually doing a good job.

I think the better - perhaps only - measure of whether economies are working is seeing real profit go into pension funds and savings; seeing debt paid back; and allowing real loss-makers to fail. And for proper profits, one does need good products rather than chasing the abstract notions of productivity.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Neil O'Brien: How to r... · 2 replies · +1 points

I disagree. I think we need interest rates to rise to their proper levels - which will be painful. We should also be arguing properly for proper free trade - not the EU protectionist illusion of free trade for friends only. When that happens, the economy will naturally recover but it cannot be forced to recover in particular areas which voted leave. We must ditch the idea that Government plans and subsidises. If I had to predict, I wold say that new technologies especially batteries, pharmceuticals and deep harbour ports are the areas key to the future.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andy Street: What's ne... · 0 replies · +1 points

Lord Preserve Us from meddling Government. If anything could put the kiss of death on a new idea or new industry, it is this sort of nonsense.

I live in Birmingham and I happen to remember that the industrial revolution started here, not by Government but by a group of Non-Conformist innovators, scientists, free thinkers and industrialists. Government did nothing and the Establishment was not in the picture.

250 years later, we have some innovation again in a car industry that, subsidised and mollycoddled by the EU, has failed to develop for thirty years. In fact, it has defrauded us all with false emmission claims, dirty polluting cars and terrible consequences for air quality and health.

Andy Street must leave the roads alone.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Leadsom insists... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks for mansplaining.

Actually, although not my favourite choice, she is very bright. No deal is no disaster. I do think we would easily achieve some arrangements - airports, security information etc. - which are mutually beneficial without much difficulty; not least because they would not be tied up with the ridiculous comprehensive WA and billions of pounds demanded by the EU; and in several important & specific areas could be swapped one-for-you-one-for-me.

The WTO terms are not a disaster and they are a step towards the proper solution - truly liberal free trade instead of EU protectionism.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Victoria Prentis: Why ... · 0 replies · +1 points

LOL!

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