Blanchflower’s Bizarre Rant
Now that he’s promised to spare us of his ill-fated predictions David Blanchflower is having to scrape the barrel for copy. Yesterday’s Indy column by Gordon’s favourite economist was just plain bizarre:
“I am aware of no pilots that were done to suggest that the Work Programme was ever going to work – this is policymaking by guessing. It’s the equivalent to introducing a drug that was not fully tested. It is the labour market equivalent of thalidomide.”
Yeah, just the same. Stay classy…
Dan is desperate
Gawd Bless her Majesty! Long may she and all her German-Y*ddish offspring reign over us!
Think you will find the middleton blood line is as English as you will find on our North Atlantic Island.
Perhaps if they would actually feed Ms Middleton from time to time she wouldnt be so sick. Just sayin.
I agree, she is now going to be feeding two.
Fcking racist pleb.
If they give Kate thalidomide will we have a royal flid y*d?
Send pizzas! Incinerate baby Palestinians! Stay classy!
Things are going from bad to worse for the government and country. In 2012/13 deficit will be almost the same as 2009/10. Need more cuts, elimination of tax loopholes, etc.
Cut should be made on pensions, benefits (from £26,0000 to £20,000), schools (no point in wasting money on kids who doesn’t study), stop subsidising houses building and rent, stop legal aid.
Tax increased on fuel tax (road tax should be eliminated), non dom tax, etc. Stop tax avoidance.
People should be given grants to become self employed. Give them £10,000 and stop benefits for life. Increasing small business is what is going to get this country out of this mess.
Regulation should be reduced. Increase personal allowance to £25,000 for family and £12,500 for single and stop family credits, council tax benefits, etc.
Don’t worry, Mr Anonymous, according to the truthful British media the Eurozone is doubly-fucked, and in fact the Brits have never had it so good, as can be shown by trade data for Germany, released this morning, which shows exports from Germany to Britain up 14% in Q3 2012, and imports from Britain to Germany down 7%. I think you’ll agree this proves categorically Britain is in recovery and the evil Krauts are totally fucked.
exports from Germany to Britain up 14%
imports from Britain to Germany down 7%
Humm….
This is because Europe is bust and can’t afford to but anything, while their neighbour Great Britain is buying up all their lederhosen and saurkraut.
Has anyone noticed that the 2 main cheapo supermarkets (Aldi & Lidl) are both German?
I spent my first sixteen years in Germany, there is nothing like the smell of warm lederhosen in the morning
Mind you the smell of a burning socialist in the morning could be rather pleasent
Increase competitions in the energy market. Produces should not be allowed to sell to customers directly or indirectly. They should sell to 100% independent companies which should sell to customers.
Let the market decide whether it should go to green energy, gas, etc; without government intervention. Stop CO2 targets.
If it is unacceptable that people should be given more on benefits than those in work on average wages (and it is)… then surely it is also unacceptable that people should be given more in pension than those on average wages. Public Service Pensions – at half final salary for those now earning well above the Prime Minister – are now obscene. These people on ‘salaries’ of over £100,000 (or £200,000) pa can quite well afford their own private pension – and most of then do as a further scam on tax avoidance.
I thought we had a Government in situ who two years ago had a clear plan to put us back on our feet .
I have been paying my taxes for the last two years so what exactly is the problem ?
Without major changes UK will end up in triple dip and UK will end up losing AAA. UK should have balanced budget or surplus every year unless in times on major emergency. Major emergency to go for deficit budget should only be approved by 3/4 of MP for it to be passed.
Mate, there is no ‘double dip’, ‘triple dip’. For the average indigenous Brit the country’s been in economic collapse and continuous depression since the early 1970s. All you’re seeing now is mass media propagandising to stop a long overdue English Spring.
Very true.
Regime change will not be stopped though. The dimly dawning fear of this is partially why lickspittle of the rich make so many bizarre attempts to ignore realities and focus on trivia about the liblabcons. Won’t work. Arrest and guillotine time is coming.
A sensible suggestion but the last 5 Labour governments spanning a century pissed everything up against the nearest wall and the last one condemned our Great grandchildren to pay for our present predicament.Add to the mix the fact that the current Labour bench is stuffed full of the same chancers who got us into this mess and there is a very real chance that they will get back in.
We are potentially well and truly fxxxed.
We are already there and have been for some years. The entire world economy is a world of make believe and sham, run by people who do not know what they are doing on behalf of a small number of masters who do.
http://realitymoney.page.tl/
There is no way out without world wide revolution, and who is going to start it, control it and end it.
Hilarious – I presume that Blanchflower believes that pilots should be done to ensure that programmes are going to work.
Based on his track record, I guess either he never did a pilot in his life, OR he did pilots and disregarded the results.
Hilarious!
Maybe he has been experimenting with untested drugs? Mid life crisis maybe?
There’s little doubt that Labour would have spent £millions on a pilot exercise.
Whatever the actual results of the pilot, they’d have been massaged to justify rolling out across the entire country. It would have been largely similar to the Work Programme, failed just as spectacularly and (of course) far more expensively – but of course the line to take would be that the pilot exercise indicated that it should have worked and due diligence had been applied.
Of course, the real problem with any “back to work” scheme is the quality of the candidates. Report after report from real employers indicate that they’re actually having difficulty filling vacancies because so much of the potential workforce “lack basic motivation and skills” (i.e. they’re bone idle and thick as pigsh*t.)
stick to football you are so much better at that.
“this is policymaking by guessing. It’s the equivalent to introducing a drug that was not fully tested. It is the labour market equivalent of thalidomide”
Yes ….that was Gordons economic policy when you still had some influence – and look where it got us
Goal !
Oops !
I agree with David.
Of course you do.
Thinking independently is a bit tricky for someone of your political persuasion.
Jimmy, it’s time you killed yourself. Every time a lefty dies, there’s a bit less hatred in the world.
As Ed asked for an Inquiry yet?,
or said “it beggars belief” yet?
Listening to the arsonist constantly criticise the fire brigade is getting really dull.
Why the Torys dont smash the truth down Labours throats every time they open their mouths is beyond me.
Exactly. Not only did Labour and their advisors wreck the economy when they were in power but they also damaged it by increasing higher rate tax to 50% just before they were kicked out. Why Osborne and Cameron are not shouting it from the rooftops baffles me. By alienating wealth creators It has damaged not not only jobs but growth as well. Instead of defending their policy of reducing the higher rate tax band to 45% they should be lambasting the Labour wrecking crew for raising it.
Hello Guido
I a man economist among other things
That is why we measure the British economy by bra sizes..
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/boom-and-bust-as-bra-sizes-are-a-sign-131027
Intelligent no?
This is a more intelligent method of measurement of economic activity than that which Blanchflower, the Maximum Imbecile and the rest of the Labour Party ever found…
Bra sizes up? So that’s why the economy went tits up?
Not sure it’s been tits down for while either
They may be onto something. Especially with the observation of increased bust size due to implants – that is somewhat analogous to some aspects of monetary policy which have been keeping the show going. More so when you consider that when these break they will permanently disfigure or kill the host.
He’s a fruit cake and a closet racist.
Fruitcake? Did you say fruitcake?
Scandalous…
Does he vote UKIP also?
OOOh. Fruitcake! Yes please and plenty of large portions.
The bloke is a reject., and like all socialists a useless loud mouth.
That is why he is in America
It all started in America…
A friend of gordon who claims to be an economist? hmm
Gordon knew an economist? Gordon had a friend?
Unlikely.
Hello boys
I wish to make a serious contribution to the political and economic debate.
Contrary to the idiot Gordon Brown, I always believed in boom and bust
It is all a question of timing
As a politician, you must organise a huge Ponzi scheme at the start of your term of office
Than keep in running until you have enough contacts and fawning commentators to leave and get filthy rich on your contacts in banking
Others then have to pick up the bills
When I started life as a Communist (like all good barrow boys), we used to sing
“What goes up
Must come down
So said Wehrner von Braun’
Remember that? My bank now makes as much money when markets collapse as when they used to rise…
And a very good guacamole to you all
Another good year.
Not as good as ours.
Trumped.
Dan I like the cut of your jib – are you free for lunch? Ever had oysters? Slurp slurp. See you at BBC House around 1215. I eat 4 days a week at BBC and get paid £110K pa.
His problem is that he has become discredited and slightly ridiculous. His best bet would be to shut up for a while.
Permanently would be better.
This can be arranged.
A bit like all liebor’s policies then reallly. What a twat.
His syntax is as bad as his grasp of economics.
We still love Blanchflower and will inflict his unusual non-predictions on a totally pleb public until he expires, or until Labour come to power, then we will ignore him.
It is good to waste billions of public funds on productive companies like AfE.
Thalidomide was fully tested for its intended original purpose as a sleeping pill and is still used today to treat certain conditions. When it was discovered to combat morning sickess, however, it was not re-tested for safety because scientists of the day did not believe such large molecules could cross the placental barrier. Not quite the ‘wicked drug company’ myth that the Blanchflowers of this world like to believe.
The more bizzare his rant the more BBC will want him
This is true. For a Christmas special we intend to team up Blanchflower, John Prescott, Jacqui Smith and Margaret Moran for political and economic insights into 2012. We feel that this will be very popular with licence-fee payers.
What we need is the mars bar index
A body with no arms and legs? So the work programe has no arms and legs? What a fucking hoon.
Perhaps the quadriplegic work programme should be referred to ATOS ?
That’ll teach him to be mean to the PM. Not on Guido’s watch. He may not know much about economics but he knows what he likes.
To compare the work programme to Thalidomide is just sick.
True, many thalidomide victims have been able to lead productive lives.
Blanchflower reminds me of a long lost Kray twin – one that was gayer, pervier and less in touch with reality than the other ones.
David Blanchflower walks on water as far as I am concerned. And nice thalidomide touch Dave, quite topical, what with Duchess Katie vomiting everywhere and anywhere at the moment.
furthermore – perhaps Katie will get involved with the charity for ageing late fifties/early sixties thalidomide borns that are now getting older, after her gestating a baby experiences? They need a real figurehead for them.