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The government will not want to debate this in public, for the simple reason that none of them will have a clue what QE is or how it works.
Tory MPs lobby Harriet Harman and Speaker for debate on 'quantitative easing'
Update: Daniel Hannan is also outraged at the democratic deficit. Alan Duncan, Shadow Leader of the House at Business Questions, and Anne Main, Julie Kirkbride and Christopher Chope later, all pressed yesterday for full parliamentary scrutiny of the Bank of England's momentous decision to start ...
Fingers crossed for Rebecca Harris, I can't stand Bob Spink.
James Duddridge clashes with Bob Spink over political donations
Bob Spink, erstwhile Tory and MP for Castle Point, rather upset some of his former Conservative colleagues yesterday during a debate on the Political Parties and Elections Bill, including James Duddridge (right). MPs were debating raising the threshold for public donations to parties from £200 ...
Jill at 1508
Good comment. My instinct is to ascribe incompetence to the current shower, who live by the day and seem to have no discernable strategy.
However, it should be remembered that the overpromoted NUS activists that constitute the current government will have been indoctrinated in the works of Foucault and Gramsci amongst others (Durkheim, Polanyi, etc).
So, whilst this Government of all the comrades (excellent term BTW) are too incompetent to be deliberately destroying the liberal institutions of state, their instincts have led them down this path accidently, but predictably.
Eamonn Butler: The Rotten Police State of Britain
Dr Eamonn Butler is director of the Adam Smith Institute and author of The Rotten State of Britain, which is published on Tuesday by Gibson Square Books. The book offers a damning account of what the successive Labour Governments have done to Britain over the last twelve years and here he look...
Sunder.
The police will never arrest a SHADOW MINISTER without top cover. Get over it. LABOUR have arrested an opposition politician for leaking details about immigrants getting jobs. This is not normal in a liberal society.
A curious statement from Gordon Brown about the Damian Green affair
Iain Dale is right, it is always difficult to comment over breaking news stories, but there are two eye-catching things about the Downing Street statement on the arrest of Damian Green, which Sky News is reporting here. According to Sky, the word from Downing Street is this: "This is a matter fo...
I want my children taught science in science classes. As others have pointed out above:
1. God is outside of the realm of science because the existence of god cannot be proven.
2. Creationism is therefore not science.
3. What happened before the big bang? Might let you mention the concept of god then as purely hypothetical speculation.
4. Key to this is the principle of FALSIFIABILTY. This should be taught to students and shouted at creationists.
If you don't know what this is, see http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/
RE: Should creationism be permitted to be taught in schools?
The discussion of my earlier post has exposed a really key issue, that I want to bring out separately. Many of the commenters want to urge the following: There should be no distinction drawn between belief in Young Earth creation and the more general belief that God created the Universe. Scien...
Sally Roberts says the following:
'I fear that the attacks will not stop until those perceived as "rich" are reduced to living on the 20th floor of a Lambeth tower block with the smell of boiled cabbage and left-over chicken tikka masala wafting up the stairs, the lift out of action and stinking of urine and the small, burnt and dried up piece of grass outside covered in dog mess!'
If you think that the worst that can happen to an MP is to be put up in a council flat, is it any wonder I'm the only tory on this humble estate of mine.
Perhaps, Sally Roberts, if MPs were put up on a block, they might empathise with the people there and do something about it.
Yours offended,
The Only Tory in Peckham
MP propriety: This tide of attack can't go on
It is very hard to become an MP unless you are a terribly nice person. You need to persuade a set of terribly nice, self-sacrificing, public-spirited party officials to grant you a place on a candidates' list. Then you need to get some very upright, hard-working people in a local constituency ...
Well put Serf.
The far left hate the far right (and vice-versa) with a passion only reserved for kith and kin.
The BNP is the current excuse for left wing extremism
Saturday's anti-BNP march wasn't a rally against right wing extremists by reasonable people. It was a march by left wing extremists promoting their agenda, to which some reasonable people may unwittingly have tagged along. That's why there were "REVOLUTION" banners being flown; that's why the C...
Agree that anyone who is thinking of using the threat of eviction on the jobless should be given a reality check. As a lad I had to walk past cardboard city in Waterloo every day on my way to school. Such a sight was a blight on our society and we should be ashamed of it.
However, IDS is saying that the mono-tenure estates should be broken up. Indeed. But when the council is your landlord only those who can't afford to move remain. As someone who lives on council estate I'll be pleased to hear someone state that social housing provision does not mean that councils must be landlord.
The dispersal of social tenants out of the current ghettoes will do much to alleviate many of the problems caused by council estates. Alas, this will also attack many vested interests in the council estate system who will use the fears of social tenants to protect their own interests. Care required.
Social apartheid and social housing
Social housing has become a ghetto tenure which is helping perpetuate a growing social apartheid. That was the stark assessment of Iain Duncan Smith in his speech to the Chartered Institute of Housing's annual conference in Harrogate last week. 70% of new social rented households have no-one in...
Good point Graeme Archer.
Liberal's are more inclined to ignore abusive comments and debate points. The telegraph is particularly dull and I'm a tory!
Abuse in the blogosphere
A good, substance-heavy debate has followed my piece over at the Platform against legalising drugs. The majority of responses - perhaps like the majority of active right-of-centre bloggers - are libertarian in tone and disagree with me. Fair enough. But - at the risk of being pilloried - I thi...
Agreed that the blogosphere can get a bit nasty, but I think its part of the scene and will be impossible to stamp out.
With regard to this follow up post, you say 'The majority of responses - perhaps like the majority of active right-of-centre bloggers - are libertarian in tone and disagree with me'.
Needless to say I'm delighted with this fact, as the media would have us believe that the tories aren't really liberal. Thank you for confirming Alex, that in the main, we are.
Abuse in the blogosphere
A good, substance-heavy debate has followed my piece over at the Platform against legalising drugs. The majority of responses - perhaps like the majority of active right-of-centre bloggers - are libertarian in tone and disagree with me. Fair enough. But - at the risk of being pilloried - I thi...
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