Guido really likes this video from the wonks at the Centre for Policy Studies, it animates a very clear message, around the world lower taxes lead to higher growth rates.
The data is pretty clearly presented, are you watching Mr Osborne?
How Mervyn King Lost Bank Battle War | WSJ
BBC Corporation Tax Horror Story | IEA
Sally Bercow Judgement in Full | Mr Justice Tugendhat
Commies Blame Capitalism For Terror Attack | The Commentator
Lord Black v Press Regulation | Guardian
Osborne’s Complacency | FT
DWP’s Welfare Failings | Isabel Hardman
Get Used to Coalitions | David Aaronovitch
Woolwich a Showcase in the Banality of Evil | Fraser Nelson
The Enemy Within | Max Hastings
Muslim Led Military-Style Free School Needed | Toby Young
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Ed Balls stretches credulity by claiming he isn’t ambitious…
“I would love to be part of Ed’s Labour government but what I do next for me is not an all-consuming passion. I’m more bothered, in a personal sense, about getting to grade 8 piano by the time I’m 50.”
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
Its not what you got its how you use it!
Keep politicians out of Government!
And if you don’t have much, you have to become efficient.
I shave my bush to make my todger look longer. The cuttings go to Andrew Neil’s toupée maker.
A tiny belly tips ad on Guido’s site is like hearing Ed Miliband rooting for Ron Paul.
My hands are tied by my lack of imagination.
So you awful people in the nasty party will never again win a majority, I have ensured that 1mm1gr4tion is still running at over half a million per year.
That’s OK, sweetheart. We’re gonna need plenty of target practice before we come for you lot.
This says all we need to know about how the parasite party would balls it all up again – Oh dear,I need to calm down, shouldn’t have mentioned the balls name, he likes the limelight too much even thats why he is so arsy.
Louise!!!
Huh?
Seeing a tiny belly tips ad on Guido seems as bizarre as hearing Ed Miliband preaching from the gospel of Ayn Rand.
I’m still looking for a plugin that will show me the adverts without the blog
’tis though innit?n abbaJ
Ooooh, you are a real sweetie.
So live in Singapore.
Or San Marino.
Or just avoid paying them.
If it’s good enough for The Grauniad, Ken Liv et al…….
Should it not be “Mr Osbrowne” ?
*claps manically* Take a pay rise, sir!
Spain – small government
Germany – big government.
Work ethic trumps government.
I’m sure theres hundreds of reasons, and several ways of doing the “big/small” criteria.
I wonder what happens to the statistics they’ve got if you adjust your “big/small” line in the sand, say to 39%, 42% or beyond.
Spain has plenty of government, much of it decentralised and more susceptible to localised vested interests and, dare I say it, corruption. The result is that the regions are now broke and are aking for bail outs from central government. Which is also broke.
There is a similar problemwith ingrained, deep levels of corruption in several local authorities here in the UK. Eric Pickles is doing nothing about it.
Government at work for the betterment of the people
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/9288873/Spain-to-close-up-to-30-state-run-airports.html
Interesting name. Who exactly is supposed to “save” the dog track eh?
Greece – no government
Somalia. Yemen. No government – and they really are the places to be these days!
Absolutely wasting time with Cameron. With each passing day he damages Conservatism.
Small state
Low taxes
Minimum legislative interference in the free market
Get the feffing Government out of the way of the productive sode of the economy
Sack 1 million public sector workers.
Cameron, Hollande & the EU think that if you hire 50,000 workers into non jobs & print £10,000,000,000 to pay for them you have somehow achieved “growth”.
Cameron out. A Conservative in.
Yes true, but can you find one in the Tory Party?
The BBC only hear’s what it want’s to hear, the BBC only see’s what it want’s to see.
You only spell’s how you wants to spell’s
I’s must’s do’s a lot better’s. Thank’s for correcting’s me’s.
There should be a requirement for TV or radio programmes to state whether a particular think tank is left wing, right wing, socialist, free market etc. It would save me the time in having to listen to some of the bilge spouted by think tankers on Newsnight et al, before discounting what they have to say as socialist bollocks.
Hard to calculate how many lefty spinners are on pay as you mutter .
Lefty and Righty is for two-dimensional thickies who don’t have the brains to make up their own mionds on individual policies.
With the BBC you work in the basis that any think tank quoted is left wing.
The only time the BBC quote right of centre think tanks is if its messsage attacks the government. This constitutes 10% of think tank quotes but is growing as our search engine gets better.
Did you take note of how we determine audience viewing of BBC programmes? Just over 5000 black boxes installed in selected homes throughout the uk allowing for family members and guests to record their viewing.
So 20th Century don’t you think?
We will not go into the questions on the questionnaire these families answered to get this “service”; but they obviously agree with our BBC agenda.
In the early 1990′s BBC local radio used to work out it’s non-phone in audiences by the number of phone calls a show received. 1 call equalled 1,000 listeners.
I like to think of myself as being a fairly balanced sort of guy that recognises a dose of propaganda or spin when I see it.
It does, however, make me want to puke when I turn on the TV every morning to have the BBC’s flagship political programme, Breakfast, bombard me with the latest list of cuts/closures affecting some minority group (such as Firewalking For The Deaf or The National Creche Association for The Children of Pavement Artists) with the words “government”, “cuts”, “baby-killers” and “Ed Balls says” repeated over and over until the camera finally zooms out from the presenters’ faux-gobsmacked features and cuts to the impossibly chirpy Celtic weather bird.
It’s as if the BBC doesn’t know that we know they are subliminally trying to plant socialist ideas into our bonces before we’re fully awake and then send us off into the day full of negativity and hate towards this evil government.
Well, BBC. It’s beginning to work.
P.S. Why do all the male presenters on Breakfast look like faggots?
Because they’re e f f ing BBC maggots
Faggots are for burning.
I’ve given up with Breakfast News. The only fairly accurate thing on there is the local weather forecast at 6.58 am.
Currently watching old episodes of “Wish Me Luck” on Yesterday.
Is the guy with the Yellow helmet Ed Balls?
Lalalala can’t hear you says a government stuffed to bursting point with bureaucrats, time servers, bedwetters and cronies.
Why on earth would these Turkeys vote for Christmas?
We won’t get any real change until we can’t kick the can any further down the road. It will take a full blown economic and social crisis before our course changes, and even then those rather used to being recipients of OPM will claim it was all because the evil Tory government didn’t DO something.
I’m with the Gipper – Don’t just DO something, sit there!
Little known fact – we were spending ~ 26 % of our GDP when we entered recession in the early nineties and when we came out of it we only spending ~40% of GDP. Under the Prime mentalist we were spending over 40% in the good years and running a deficit. I’m now convinced that “abolishing boom and bust” wasn’t just a soundbite but something he truly believed in. Completely bonkers ! Unfortunately, instead of the useless fucking Tories eviscerating Nu Lab we had the same ol’ guff of matching labour’s spending plans and “sharing the proceeds of growth”.
Fuck ‘em all!
Maggie said it all about labour – they are only here to spend our taxes. The deeply thought through socialist policy of spend as much as you can and say you are investing. Thats what you get with the parasite labour party led by the balloon brown and the handy balls – cant call millie a leader really can we?
I was following that right up until the last seconds when they spoiled it by offering that perennial bribe to the politicians: more money for public services, ie more diversity consultants, more spin doctors, more think tanks parasites, more of the same old crap.
It is thought that the brain consumes somthing like 30% of your calorie intake , I can only conclude that labours vodoo mind bending has led to huge number of incredibly fat people , who now have dormant brains , and the wonk tanks and servants using up money to compensate for the social change of having to job , to watching day time TV
ah haa but dont you have to pose the subequent question of what the difference is between , a big goverment state and big corpratism ? hasnt some form of symbyiosis occured ??
Debt was 800 billion when coalition come together.
It will be 1.4 trillion when next genral election.
1.4 trillion sounds a lot less than 800 billion, doesn’t it nurse?
In fact single digit figures in the trillions is smaller than billions in my book
How big is big?
Six month’s free subscription to the Grauniad.
“peaceful citizen’s arrest”?
Fuck that. I’ll do it for the price of a round.
Are you fucking serious? We’re all rolling on the floor laughing our tits off at your not-so-subtle attempt to activate “the sleeper”.
Is that Brian Wilson pointing an imaginary gun to his head, FFS?
Very funny and we’ve passed your details on to MI5. You’re not laughing now are you, Mr. Joker?
Oh, yeah. Ta.
“pe*aceful citizen’s arrest”?
Fuck that. I’ll do it for the pr*ice of a round.
Just need to plan my getaway – bugger the so called reward.
Were they all undressed?
I expect that it means that he is just going to treat them all like toddlers.
http://www.careerbuilder.com/monk-e-mail/?mode=new&mId=43056148.2
It certainly is better than the video he watches at the moment.
Yup. Obvious, really.
In 1997, public spending was about 37% of GDP. I think the last gummint tried to alleviate unemployment – which was high in some areas of the country – by spending taxpayers’ money in those areas. The experiment, whilst well-meaning, failed because private enterprise was stifled in those areas; they just could not compete with public sector wages. Eventually, the cost to the public purse became unsustainable, and public spending will have to be trimmed at some point. Private enterprise in those areas is now even more difficult to stimulate.
Had we kept to small state and lowish taxation, we would have enjoyed the bonanza from the banking boom, and not had such a deep crash when the bubble burst. We would have been in a far stronger position to ride out global economic storms such as the Euro’s possible collapse.
Big government + high taxation will always bite you on the arse sooner or later.
The expansion of the public sector didn’t just stifle the private sector. As public sector jobs paid more than private sector ones in those areas it lead to an increase in house prices in areas that should never have had high house prices.
It is no coincidence that the first house that Northern Rock repossesed after it went bust was a £88k mid terrace in Bishop Auckland of all places.
Can someone explain why four guys have just been charged with counterfeiting £4million while Sir Mervyn has quantitatively eased £325 billion? Is he too big to nick?
We cannot have other people ‘coining’ it in
If I had a pound for every time someone has asked me that I’d have £4m
I bet your gold plated inflation proofed pension is worth more than a measly £4million
lol Do I look stupid or something.
I made damn sure my annuity was sorted before I started cranking up the QE.
The BoE moved it’s pension fund into RPI linked bonds just before they were removed from sale to the rest of us.
Believe Merv’s assurances on inflation if you choose, but the actions of thier penstion trustees suggest that they don’t really believe it.
Merv The Swerve’s notes are almost perfect.
He doesn’t bother with all that messy time-consuming dead tree printing nonsense — one little keystroke on his keyboard confirms as much national debt. reducing forgery that any crap government could wish for. Why stop at £325bn Sir Merv? — go for a round £1tn — Joe Public doesn’t understand the difference, silly sod.
There’s a lovely dissection of the Beecroft report on R4′s ‘More or Less’ right now.
Described as ‘an evidence-free publication’.
What? The BBC are trying to rubbish a report that might not pander to the Liberal Left?
I’m shocked, I tell you; shocked.
Don’t diss ‘More or Less’!
Proper debunking of gobshite ‘statistics’ regardless of where they come from.
They were no less precise in Blair and Brown’s days.
MOL takes a reassuringly realistic line on the size of the debt and the deficit.
Osbought is an arsehole,(asshole for your Americanische readers) but worse a traitor. The sooner we are shot of this melange of sewage of a ‘government’ the better.
Just think, a trillionaire could buy every Mp for say a million quid in cash each,(no tax) and every member of what is laughingly and euphemistically named ‘upper house’ for the same.That would be 1442 million quid and it would be a ‘tanner’ to him. Well perhaps a shilling. Money well spent.
I feel it has been done.
Can you say “third variable”?
I’m no fan of big government but I’m afraid this is about as scientific as “intelligent design”.
You may have a point, but an ex-Prime Minister was a perfect example of unintelligent design!