Cable’s 3,800 Word Plan Zzz
Leading the promo with “a 3,800 word essay from Vince Cable” is a surefire way to get your magazine flying off the shelves. Cable’s supposed big intervention in the New Statesman, backing Labour’s borrow-to-spend mantra, is the re-emergence of old ideas. He then goes off on one about those who don’t subscribe to his Keynesian money tree dream:
“This bastardised ‘supply side’ economics often degenerates into a saloon bar whine about HSE inspectors, newts and birds which block new development, bloody minded workers, equalities and Eurocrats who dream up regulations for square tomatoes and straight bananas. Philosophical cover is provided by the belief that the private sector can always fill the space left by a retreating state.”
Guido doubts Number 10 will be rushing to pick up a copy. Standing firmly between Cable and his own backbenchers, steady as she goes Dave has far bigger things to worry about…
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Cable is only in government because of his vanity.
He sounds a bit thick to me, spouting that rubbish. It just goes to show how indoctrinated the left wing fools are.
Can we get Vince on the Liverpool Care Pathway?
The end of the Liverpool path is a living Hell and they all want to die as a way off it.
He is ignorant. The BS about EU rules about straight bananas and many others are urban myths.
Plain bastard propaganda lies by the scummy media.
It’s worse than this.
Cable is too stupid to realise he contradicts himself several times in the same article. An Austrian School Keynsian, a Georgist NIMBY & Marxist free Market.
So he’s just a twat then?
Just glanced through his diatribe.
Does he not have a job to do? Or a home to go to where he can stay and let someone more capable do this work.
Seems to me this polemic is a very crude attempt to appear to be an economic intellectual, but instead he comes out as an economic pygmy in sixth grade.
As normal with Labour and his own party (with a few notable LD exceptions) he discusses problems but without logical and viable solutions.
At least Labour have the excuse they have 2 years to discover some policies.
if you are going to shoot, shoot don’t talk
“Dave has far bigger things to worry about…” he sure has but he cannot make up his mind what to do, first it is one thing and then he realises that will not work and then turns 180 degrees and then spouts something to the contrary. He has got to work out a plan, properly thought out, taking ino account all prospective contra indications and weighing them up. The big problem for Dave Boy is, the sand in the hour glass is starting to run out, he only has 2 years left to come up with something and implement his ideas, if his right wing decide they want him out he has 18 months at the most and the Cons will have to choose a leader who would be acceptable to the voters (this democracy is a terrible thing when then the electorate do not vote as parties want them to) and not just what the right wing of the Cons wants.
But “the private sector can always fill the space left by a retreating state” WHERE THERE IS REAL DEMAND FOR IT!
and that’s the entire point why Keynesianism is a total failure when the debt stops increasing (as it must).
Uh, the New Statesman is scraping the barrel with that one.
Cable an unreconstructed socialist who has never had a job; only in the UK political system could an incomptent like this be the minister in charge of our industry.
His specialist area however is political treachery, continually briefing against the coalition with his socialist agenda
Lets not forget his self opinionated wife giving us the benefit of her vast experience on immigration; as I have stated perviously if she is so concerned about housing for immigrants she can always let a few families live in her spare bedroom. Thought not
As our friends in Surbiton agree: house them in the Shires and city centres in all our newbuilds. Cable is looking more and more like Labour’s perfect senior minister.
This will be reported more positively in the BBC. Vote Lib Dem for economic wisdom.
We haven’t seen Vince around here lately. He’s been at home scribbling.
Come over here a minute Irene. We Libdums have special ways of helping girls like you start their careers in politics.
Where’s that nice Mr Handycock, he calls me his princess
See you tonight sweet cheeks. It is all very well people on this blog ridiculing me for being a pervert, sex tourist on taxpayer’s money’, trougher and running a corrupt planning department in Portsmouth to help my boys launder their drug profits by housing asylum seekers that I bring in for them, but it is only politics. Anyway you are only jealous because you have not been bought a villa in Spain by them like what I have. Must dash off for a bit of Miss Bubble wrap in Fareham with my council colleagues. Boaz.
On our way Handy. Jahbulon.
Dave — if you had any guts you would sack this geriatric Libdum old fool.
Yet more borrowing is financial madness.
Stop poncing around with trivial pretend cuts, and continuing to run a large deficit.
Introduce some proper tax cuts. Freeze all benefits and state sector pay until further notice. Stop all none front line public sector recruitment etc. etc.
Yes and make public sector workers pay for their own pensions and raise their retirement age to 67 like the rest of us. You would not lose a single vote for this as they do not vote for you anyway.
Cameron hasn’t got the political back bone to do what is needed in terms of public spending cuts.
Public spending is higher now than it has ever been, we lost our AAA rating for one reason and one reason only and that is because public spending is out of control.
There has been no overall spending cuts and as such no austerity programme. Cameron is such a political half wit he hasn’t made any cuts and has lost the PR war where the left wing has convinced all the chavs that we are in the middle of a major austerity program.
Dave studied PPE at Oxford. He has never done a proper days work in his life. He is therefore completely unqualified to be P.M.
The man is a total PC tosser.
Dave’s just a media PR front man, nothing more. His function is to fool the stupid public into believing they still live in a democratic sovereign nation.
All the important decisions concerning Britain and our future are taken elsewhere – in Brussels, Washington, the City of London.
The end result of probably decades of bribery and blackmail of a hopelessly corrupt and compromised political class.
The problem is not the politicians, it’s the people that vote for them.
Wot the UK needs is a good comedian with real business and economic noledge likka me.
Professional media expertis that makes Obama look amatur will hav the people rise to our cleer message – get rid of cheating lying incompetant useles politicions
Yes subsidies to large firms to move to areas they would not normally move to, like 10 years rate free or very low rates, local excisting companies do not get that, what happens when the 10 years ends? Of course they move on and the cycle goes round and around. Stop grandiose projects HS2, Trident replacement (remember that one) there are others, great ideas but only do them when the country can afford to do so.
Is it a ‘what happens next’ photo comp?
The light has been swithched as part of the austerity programme.
You can only have the lights on when the wind is blowing in the right direction.
I saw the light once but then through some miracle I survived
But Chuka Dear, there is now less unemployment in the UK than when Labour left office.
What makes you of that?
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/unemployment-rate
The Tory baby eating government have massaged the figures, by including the poor poor brave brave lazy, workshy and feckless that have been forced back (sic) to work.
Chukka Uppee needs to be awarded the Labour Trophy for outstanding stupidity. This has been won by many of Labour’s fools and idiots in the past. It is awarded for spending all the money then letting someone else clear up the mess.
I see it as space for 1/2 million extortion funded sector nonjob cuts.
Owen. Are you at school?
Um ah er, no mum, just helping these nice gentlemen. They’re giving me lessons in social activism where I massage their stiff gristle.
Owen. Just wait until you get home! There’ll be no tea for you tonight.
Ms. Jones. I am from the Social Services and this is PC Prick from the Child & Gays Protection Enforcement Squad.
Owen has reported that you have been thoroughly nasty and rude to him, and have hurt his feelings.
We are taking him into care immediately.
Has she been harbouring UKIP tendencies and thoughts?
What’s the latest on Joyce Thacker Child Snatcher?
Has the inquiry by Rotherham Council finished yet???
What’s the latest on Joyce Thacker Child Snatcher?
Has the inquiry by Rotherham Council finished yet???
As a good common purpose saboteur, we are going to promote her.
Of course my moniker can only mean one of the two options, and its not the shagging one.
What a turd
Of course my moniker can only mean one of the two options, and its not the devil with two backs one.
What a knob
Only 2 ?
Cables should be laid underground, then have at least 11 KV passed through them
Watched SKY this am a bloke called James Max i think called Cable and Merv
Burnham were all wrong and barking up the wrong tree couldn’t believe it first time in months since Mckenzie use to let rip at whats wrong here in the UK brilliant fat chin Holmes gobsmacked.
Sadly I listened to R4 Today, where Evan Davis allowed Yvette Cooper to make a party political broadcast and then proceeded to constantly interrupt the Government spokesman on immigration.
Switch to Radio 3. Worked for me. I haven’t listened to Toady for ages.
I think Vince cable should go stick his head up Diane Abbott’s Arse.
He may have done already, the lack of oxygen could explain his gross stupidity.
That’s a vision the wrong side of my breakfast, thanks FAE.
Go on Abbarse. Squeeze that sphincter real tight around the demented old fucker’s neck.
Diane why don’t you let an immigrant family stay in your son’s bedroom whilst he is away at private school ? That will help the housing crisis.
In fact every socialist voter in the land could let an immigrant stay with them and then we would not need to go to the expense of housing them.
Good idea, it will help with the bedroom tax, seeing most Liebour supporters live in social housing and seeing the taxpayers pas for her lodgings an even better idea.
Put them in all the extra bedrooms that the troughing bastard MPs have in their tax payer funded London homes. They all prefer living in London.
Yes it’s surprising isn’t it that the idea of being able to claim an allowance to buy or rent in the centre, when they could all commute from the pleasant suburbs like most people and save a fortune. Mind you then their wives/husbands wouldn’t be able to shop at Harrods so quickly…. Why do these people insist on living in central London only?
More police to stop gang bangs or happy slapping of MPs.
I think you should understand you daft woman, people are not against immigration, they let your family in, because we had a Commonwealth which your mates Liebour destroyed when the saw the £ signs pop up from the EEC/EU, people don’t want open doors immigration because your delightful NHS along with housing/schools and water and sewers and employment can’t cope with thousands coming to Britain in one go, maybe one day you will get out of your ivory tower in the Palace of Westminster and have a look around this beautiful country your destroying with your lunatic idea’s.
Has it occurred to you that she doesn’t even realize what a shithole Hackney is? Why do you think it looks the way it does?
I think you should understand you daft woman, people are not against immigration.
White flight would suggest otherwise.
Any sane (and honest) person would want only tiny or zero amounts of immigration, and that from people who are as close to themselves as possible.
What they don’t want is their own eventual ethnic replacement. It’s a common attitude you’ll find stretching from Tibet to the jungles of the Amazon. Only in western Europe, the native peoples have been cynically guilted into accepting their ethnic replacement as ‘good’.
Diane Fatbutt is the reason why UKIP are getting Labour votes.
He wrote what he knew the editor would be willing to pay for. this is usually known as selling one’s soul, or literary prostitution. I thought he was well heeled enough not to need to do such things. But then he is a Lib Dem ….
Owen steers clear of literary prostitution by using his column inches elsewhere.
Who cares what a Libcrap says, Dave’s worry should be he’s destroyed Camoron’s Conservatives and he won’t be master of the universe in 2015, unhappily it’s too late for him to fck off into the distant shadows and let the real Conservatives take over.
Clegg admits on LBC that he doesn’t know the price of a litre if diesel. Oh dear.
Does my Ministerial car need petrol or diesel then? I thought they were all electric nowadays.
I prefer to fly these days.
“Philosophical cover is provided by the belief that the private sector can always fill the space left by a retreating state.”
People like him believe you can confiscate more and more from the private sector and it will still grow. Even if you borrow the money you’ll only ever get growth today through spending debts and depressed economic activity tomorrow through having to pay for it.
The markets will do the job for us. Ten years ago it was €1.60/£1 now it is €1.15/1.
Soon to be £1 equals 1 Euro.
I’m another disgrace to the House of Lords
Appointed by Maximum Imbecile of course
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/07/alan-sugar-stella-english-apprentice-tribunal
Just a glorified PR heist in fact
….and for the money
Never trust a woman called Stella. She will be as rough as rats, just like the crap lager is.
Pound under pressure again, Dollar strengthening
Key Announcements today:
N/A – EUR – Spanish 10 Year Bond Auction: Previously at 5.202%
N/A – EUR – France 10 Year Bond Auction: Previously at 2.3%.
10.00am – EUR – Greek Unemployment Rate: Previously at 27%.
11.00am – EUR – German Factory Orders: Expected to increase to 1.6%.
12.00pm – GBP – BoE Interest Rate Decision: Expected to remain at 0.5%.
12.00pm – GBP – BoE Asset Purchase Facility: Expected to remain at £375bln.
12.45pm – EUR – ECB Interest Rate Decision: Expected to remain at 0.75%.
13.30pm – EUR – ECB Monetary Policy Meeting.
13.30pm – USD – Initial Jobless Claims: Expected to improve to 355k.
13.30pm – USD – Trade Balance: Expected to decrease to –US$43.00bln.
23.50pm – JPY – Gross Domestic Product: Previous figures were -1%.
Good Hoe. That’ll teach people not to hold Sterling debt. And my income from the Windmills is inflation proof.
Tally bally Sally ho.
Eric Pickles @EricPickles
Gordon Brown has just returned to the Commons I hope he add a good Christmas break
Zing!
It’s a disgrace though even to joke about this. In any other job Brown would be fired and face charges of embezzlement for obtaining salary by deception.
Which Christmas, pray, has he been celebrating? 2010 or 2011?
Gordon cannot add.
There he goes again!
He just can’t stop spending other people’s money and wants to load us all with even more debt.
Time to unplug Cable. He’d make a good Northern Ireland Secretary.
Having sex with an ugly person is like bungee jumping, you know you’re gonna enjoy it but for fucks sake just don’t look down..
Aw bless.
He’s making jokes about sex when we all know he’s still a virgin.
Abbott…..More importantly, if you drive certain members of the population away from seeking treatment for communicable disease, there is a real danger to public health.
Good article on the banksters
If the Tories had any backbone they would start by forcing the banks to pay full UK tax, cut bonuses and break up the banks that are (still) “too big to fail” and save us another few hundred billion of unwanted losses
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/06/if-bankers-leave-it-would-be-no-loss
FFS politicians (and self interest groups) are only just waking up to the fact that corporations actually pay little corporation tax.
It has been like this ever since the flawed corporation tax was invented. To blame corporations for paying small amounts of corporation tax is just the politics of envy and ignoring the very Large elephant that is saying dump this shite tax and introduce more effective measures.
Chuka et al would have you believe that corporation tax is a profits tax yet nothing could be further from the truth.
Time to stop blaming the corporations and take a long hard look at how governments collect tax instead.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2289156/BBC-executives-4-000-flight-expenses-AFTER-leaving-job-Corporations-taxi-claims-rocket-19-despite-drive-slash-spending.html
These BBC executives have no shame either
We all know what we have to do, we just don’t know how to get re-elected after doing it
Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg PM
Mr Cable should have been be sacked for what he has just said unless of course he has offered his resignation which should be accepted.
Yesterday there was that problem with Mrs May .
It is all very well scowling at Mr Miniband but she should have been straight down the tv studios telling everyone and his dog that Mr Cameron is our Leader and is leading us out of oblivion and she is right behind him .
No wonder we have mass unemployment with Ministers like this.
The best thing Vincent Cable has done is appear on that dancing programme on TV.
He was very good at that .
Shame about the economy .
I wonder how much he got paid for that little article?
Rather than putting it on a Register no one ever sees how about displaying the info at the end of every publication ?
Would be much simpler and far more open and democratic .
The essence of Keynesian economics: throw virgins into a volcano to stimulate the economy. Didn’t work? Throw more virgins!
Does this count as scraping the barrel
Well the poor man is clearly torn. On the one hand this is unarguably the most incompetent administration in living memory, but on the other hand it is the only one prepared to give him a cabinet post.
“..the most incompetent administration in living memory.”
Only if you happen to be a goldfish.