We’re All Entitled To An Opinion–Here’s Charlie Brookers–And Mine

Charlie Brooker is a smug self-opinionated champagne socialist with all the apparent wit, grace and charm of a flatulent boorish water buffalo with personal hygiene issues. Lacking the erudition of the truly well-read, well-mannered or well-educated he seeks to make up in arrogance and self-opinionated offence what he so obviously lacks in knowledge or social grace. Here is another of the luvie, lefty, literati who, feted by the BBC, are happy to take the capitalist shilling.

I Support Social Services

I support public service but I also support the reduction of the bloated blood-sucking parasitic entity the previous Socialist mal-administration made. Packing local councils, social care, the NHS and the civil service with make-work, self-opinionated jobsworths was merely a thinly disguised means of buying votes for a Socialist (nay Soviet, Marxist) regime hell bent on performing blatant attempts at social engineering with the country’s money. When the surplus the last Conservative government had built up was all gone, Blair, Brown, Balls, Miliband and co. then proceeded to attempt to prop up the whole inflated edifice with borrowed money which we couldn't afford to pay back.

Now that the bills are due the Socialist “Brothers and Comrades” are happy to man (and women, must be politically correct lest we offend their already tender sensibilities) the barricades, suggesting the all the Tories want is to cut care, social welfare and benefit support. I believe that what the government really ought to do is to go back to us having a country that lives within its means. Let’s have no more cushy jobs for the Brothers and Comrades and no more free hand-outs for the work-shy and idle. Support public services by all means but don’t let Leninist Marxist dogma stop anyone from working out how you are going to fund and support it.

Oh, and by the way, Keynesian economics has already been shown to have failed to solve the recession. A recession caused by Blair, Brown and the like de-regulating the banks and financial markets and effectively causing the crash of 2008. Governments can’t borrow money from failed institutions to finance infrastructure projects (and huge social services budgets) to stimulate demand. Tight fiscal policies and an overall reduction of the tax burden, together with the dismantling of the red-tape and restrictions imposed by the previous administration’s Commissariat law makers are, in reality, what is needed.

Just How Crazy Can The Eurozone Get?

Because Cyprus is part of the Euro it has no control over its exchange rate. Isn't its decision to levy a 10% tax on bank deposits the only way it can effectively devalue? Doesn't this 10% levy mean that effectively the Euro in Cyprus is worth 10% less than anywhere else?

Now that the central dictatorship has forced the Cypriot government into a tax and a raid on savings they have again demonstrated that democracy and individual freedom are no longer an option in the federalist dystopia being unwillingly forced on Europe. If the economists, bankers and federalists who are now in charge were wearing military uniforms, the way they have usurped power in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and now Cyprus would be call an outrage.

Apparently because they are wearing business suits, ruling without a democratic mandate is perfectly Okay. The sooner the madness that is the Eurozone is over the better the world will be.

On a related topic - If we want economic growth I believe we should be looking to Freidrich Hayek rather than John Maynard Keynes. Everyone from doctors to local bureaucrats; from bankers to politicians, have been seduced by the false hope of "Intervention". Let's just call it what it is i.e. "Meddling for personal profit, gain, personal satisfaction, or power".