I am delighted to report our most successful year ever. We made more progress to achieving our twin goals of increasing our losses and building up our levels of debt than ever before. Indeed, I am especially proud to be able to announce that in just two years we will be able to borrow more than all the previous managements of UK PLC and its predecessor companies over 1000 years. I think you will agree with me that this is […]
Tags: Banking, economics, Finance, humour, John Redwood
An explanation of the financial crisis for everyone: Linda is the proprietor of a bar in Cork. In order to increase sales, she decides to allow her loyal customers – most of whom are unemployed alcoholics – to drink now but pay later. She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans). Word gets around and as a result increasing numbers of customers (still mostly unemployed alcoholics) flood into Linda’s bar. Taking advantage of […]
Tags: Austrian School, Banking, economics, Finance, Government, Huerta De Soto, humour, Market Intervention, Money
Evoking “Who is John Galt?” a phrase popularised by the cult novel “Atlas Shrugged”, Tory Bear makes available a new T-shirt: “Who is Dan Han?”: Tory Bear – right-wing political gossip: Who is Dan Han?. Get yours here.
Tags: Conservatives, Daniel Hannan, humour
The Guardian reports on the poster sweeping the nation in these difficult times: Nowadays, of course, it would be farmed out to an expensive communications agency. Back in the spring of 1939, it was an anonymous civil servant who was entrusted with finding the slogan for a propaganda poster intended to comfort and inspire the populace should, heaven forbid, the massed armies of Nazi Germany ever cross the Channel. This was the third in a series. The first, designed to […]
Tags: humour, Keep Calm and Carry On
Sarah Kennedy cheered us this morning with Noel Coward’s “There are Bad Times Just Around The Corner“: There are bad times just around the corner And the outlook’s absolutely vile, You can take this from us That when they Atom bomb us We are NOT going to tighten our belts and smile smile smile, We are in such a mess It couldn’t matter less If a world revolution is just ahead, We’d better all learn the lyrics of the old […]
Tags: humour, Music, Socialism
From the Times Online: Rick Wagoner, the chief executive of General Motors, today expressed remorse for asking for a $18 billion hand-out from Washington but warned that without immediate assistance the car maker would run out of money by Christmas. And from my spam filter: read more | digg story
Tags: Corporatism, economics, humour, Liberty
As Gordon Brown condemns free markets and therefore by extension freedom itself, I learn of Alistair Darling’s early days as the ‘bearded Trot’ who ‘wanted to nationalise the banks’. Despite having read Boris Johnson’s cheering Have I Got Views for You, I feel the only solution is to throw myself from an aeroplane repeatedly tomorrow, two and a half miles above the Spanish plains, and hope for the best. We can turn this around, but it’s going to take some […]
Tags: Books, economics, Finance, humour, Skydiving, Trots
The root cause of the credit crunch (video) Where’s an icepick when you need one? The Big Lie This Morning Labour to Implement 1983 Manifesto Pledges So, They’ve Finally Achieved Their 1983 Election Manifesto Exclusive to Rob’s Blog: Gordon Brown to Guarantee Everything FTSE crashes — I hope you’ve learnt your lesson Another job for the superhero UK Taxpayer? Gordon’s £300 Billion Guarantee : £50 Billion Tier 1 Capital + £200 Billion Inter-Bank Guarantee + £50 Billion Northern Rock Pesto-Wire Causes […]
Tags: Blogosphere, economics, Finance, humour
Steve Baker is the Conservative MP for Wycombe.
Steve was first elected to Parliament in 2010. He was previously an RAF engineer officer then a consulting software engineer. Find out more...
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