ks.234
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OK, missed the context, sorry
Winter election III
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No. No. We have been told that labours sophisticated use of fiscal policy is very good. Maccy D would have factored in potential global interest rate changes over the med:long term, into his spending proposals and policies. And of course if interest rates caught anyone out, then taxation on the billionaires would cover any delta.
Or of course there is always increased borrowing or the IMF if it really goes all Greek.
Sound plan.
matthewr
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My post was a broad summary of the consensus academic view. Only "means little" if you have a Govian view of experts and knowledge.
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Give up. It was specific, selective, and every bit as Govian as your post, and also your subsequent lame and defensive response.
If academic concensus is your main arbiter of truth and expertise, good for you. But you might also be sensible to concede that that in itself might also matter little to many.
Or not.
Matters little again.
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John Smith was widely admired on all sides, and his untimely death was a loss at many levels.
notaclue
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John McDonnell will want to overthrow capitalism and do a Venezuela. Only he reckons he will do a Venezuela properly.
(He'll be disappointed though as all the latest polls all suggest a 9 point lead)
You're probably right, and certainly that point about Soviet military in Europe does give away that this was from a while ago. Nevertheless, the mistake made in 99% of political comments of whatever shade, absolutely everywhere, is to ignore history, and rant slavishly according to attitudes currently fashionable on "social media". Thus an opinion is deemed to be worth nothing if it has not first been tried on in front of the mirror, to see if the holder likes the view of themselves the opinion appears to imply -- it seems to me that it is literally as shallow as that.
The list was taken from the Declaration of Venice (March, 1962), by the National Party of Europe, as part of its 'Europe, a Nation' initiative under the direction of Sir Oswald Mosley, who was a actual, genuine fascist, and would have been flattered to be called one. With the benefit of some historical perspective, we can therefore conclude that anyone who would support these aims as detailed (and in many cases, now realised) could therefore also be called a fascist (and that's you Ken Clarke, John Major, Michael Heseltine, Sarah Wollaston, Heidi Allen, Tony Blair, Miss Piggy, Kier Ober-Starmer, etc.). You can't really support Moseley's policies and then deny being a fascist.
Thirty years ago, with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, it was rashly and wrongly assumed that the scourge of Marxism had been expunged, creating a new historical era. In reality of course, the crude, lumbering Soviet model of Marxism, which had become a liability to its supporters, had reached the end of its life, and it was discreetly replaced by the sleeker model that the Frankfurt School had been refining since the 1920s, based not on state control of economies but on the infinitely deadlier subversion and subjugation of culture. Now, after the long march through the institutions, cultural Marxism has occupied most of the commanding heights of British society. Parts of our universities are seminaries of totalitarian intolerance -- the undergraduate revolutionaries of a generation ago are today's senior common room commissars.
That's the root of most of today's problems. Most people know this instinctively, but nobody will admit it because there's no 'visible virtue' in a historical perspective. Instead, the shallow and fashionable notion of 'Diversity' is valued over all else, except of course, Diversity of opinion.
Luckily, there's none of this baggage in voting. Nobody sees how you vote.
I really cannot be outraged by this, seems very innocuous to me. Lots of pearl clutching going on.
I am a postal voter & I couldn't give a chuff
Tony L
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Yeah, but we know you’ll be voting for Farage!
sean99
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And there was I thinking that the root of most of today's problems (in the UK and USA) is regulatory capture, crony capitalism, and the resulting massive inequality in wealth and opportunity.
claire.foxx
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There really isn’t a secret cabal of lefty cultural Marxist terrorists hellbent on destroying western society and trampling over christian conservative values — but the more I think about it, there bloody well ought to be.
ff1d1l
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Illegal, though, no matter if you're bothered or not.
flatpopely
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There is!
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