Showing posts with label Guido. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guido. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Guido Ticks Off Labourgraph
Not sure if this is the real "Guido Fawkes" or not, but this piece has appeared on MyTelegraph.
Hat Tip: Prodicus.
Hat Tip: Prodicus.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Guido vs Dolly
If you didn't see it earlier, here are the videos of Guido vs Dolly.
I am glad that the BBC found time to show a clip from Daniel Hannan's speech, but I suspect it will still be absent from tea-time telly on the Beeb tonight. They may poorly claim that not many people know about Daniel Hannan, but they fail to realise that a tax-payer funded broadcaster must take a big chunk of the blame for that given Daniel's tireless work. A balanced broadcaster would have long ago picked up Daniel's work and given him some airtime. The Beeb has been shown up by Fox News. I imagine some BBC news editors sneer at Fox News, but they are more balanced than the BBC and they have scooped them on this.
Anyway, once you have watched the above, come join in the banter and make Question Time bearable by live blogging with us over at Biased BBC.
I am glad that the BBC found time to show a clip from Daniel Hannan's speech, but I suspect it will still be absent from tea-time telly on the Beeb tonight. They may poorly claim that not many people know about Daniel Hannan, but they fail to realise that a tax-payer funded broadcaster must take a big chunk of the blame for that given Daniel's tireless work. A balanced broadcaster would have long ago picked up Daniel's work and given him some airtime. The Beeb has been shown up by Fox News. I imagine some BBC news editors sneer at Fox News, but they are more balanced than the BBC and they have scooped them on this.
Anyway, once you have watched the above, come join in the banter and make Question Time bearable by live blogging with us over at Biased BBC.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
My Thanks to Guido Fawkes
As you may have seen in the comments of a previous post, Guido Fawkes has posted a link (repeated here) to get into view Wikileaks available files.
Thank you Guido.
Thank you Guido.
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Economic Stimuli
The BoE has cut interest rates again by 0.5% to a base rate of 1.5%. Now I may be showing some economic ignorance here, but isn't this below where the ideal rate should be? It was a good move to start cutting the interest rates last year, in fact to my mind the cuts started a little late.
However, what benefit does the person on the street get from rates much below 3%? Not much unless you are on variable mortgages or rare products that track below 3%. Just the other day, the Tories announced a tax break for basic-rate savers this was well received, so why are we punishing savers with rates that are too low? The banks are now passing the rate cuts onto borrowers, not even the ones owned by the Government!
Sudden excesses in the printing money are like Guido says, Mugabinomics, and as such is the litmus test for any Governments level of desperation.
What do I think?
All of the world money is spinning around in Asia, we need to get some of it back over here. To do this we need to offer to the good people in Asia products and services that they want to purchase at competitive prices. Plans to stimulate the British Economy should focus on how we can grow our trade and presence in the emerging markets in the world. We should be looking to help British Companies that have the potential to do well in Asia help with grants and tax breaks. Why haven't we done this already? Probably because the UK no longer has any real ability to make trade decisions in the wider world, as this is a function of the European Commission. Could it possibly be that in times of economic depression the National Governments of the EU no longer have the executive means and independance in which to implement necessary changes to domestic economic policies?
So, why not just address this issue instead of sending the printing presses into overdrive and punishing those people that showed the wisdom to save instead of borrowing excessively? Probably so Mr Brown can tell the world that this way is better than being a “Do-Nothing Tory”.
However, what benefit does the person on the street get from rates much below 3%? Not much unless you are on variable mortgages or rare products that track below 3%. Just the other day, the Tories announced a tax break for basic-rate savers this was well received, so why are we punishing savers with rates that are too low? The banks are now passing the rate cuts onto borrowers, not even the ones owned by the Government!
Sudden excesses in the printing money are like Guido says, Mugabinomics, and as such is the litmus test for any Governments level of desperation.
What do I think?
All of the world money is spinning around in Asia, we need to get some of it back over here. To do this we need to offer to the good people in Asia products and services that they want to purchase at competitive prices. Plans to stimulate the British Economy should focus on how we can grow our trade and presence in the emerging markets in the world. We should be looking to help British Companies that have the potential to do well in Asia help with grants and tax breaks. Why haven't we done this already? Probably because the UK no longer has any real ability to make trade decisions in the wider world, as this is a function of the European Commission. Could it possibly be that in times of economic depression the National Governments of the EU no longer have the executive means and independance in which to implement necessary changes to domestic economic policies?
So, why not just address this issue instead of sending the printing presses into overdrive and punishing those people that showed the wisdom to save instead of borrowing excessively? Probably so Mr Brown can tell the world that this way is better than being a “Do-Nothing Tory”.
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