“John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins's atheism as vacuous only because 'atheist' is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical convenience when we have to define concisely what we don't believe [...]. No atheist is principally that. What we'd want to call ourselves is humanist or materialist, or biologist or linguist, or for that matter socialist, because one or more of these, or something else again, is what we do and think and are. We have 'purely and simply finished with God', to adapt a phrase of Engels's.”
“In Fleeced I explained how we could use human rights legislation to scupper the plans of our corrupt wasteful leaders. The Human Rights Act (HRA) 1998 received”
“It could be argued that Parliament is an agency of the EU and therefore the theft of our money by our MPs is a breach of our right to good administration. Moreover, perhaps all public-sector bodies are EU institutions and they are breaching our human rights by taking and wasting hundreds of billions of pounds of our money.”
“by removing the 10p band on non-savings income’. Here, what looked like a simplification of the tax system was in fact the abolition of the 10p tax rate that Brown had so proudly introduced when he first became Chancellor. This change meant that someone earning £10,000 a year would lose £223 a year from the abolition of the 10p tax rate and gain just £50 a year from the reduction in income tax from 22p to 20p”
“These bills include hundreds of thousands of economic migrants who, after years in the UK, probably still can’t believe that British taxpayers are stupid enough to give them free housing, free education, free healthcare and £20,000 or £30,000 or even £40,000 a year for producing ever more children without ever having to do a day’s work.”
“So the lesson is – ‘only bank with your bank’. Only let your high-street bank run your current account. If you do any other business with the likes of HSBC, Barclays, RBS, Lloyds, Natwest then the chances are that you are paying for over-priced, poorly-performing products.”
“sophistry”
“have tried to show the scale of the problem and suggest some actions our Government should take to help us out of our current economic quagmire. These have included giving our bureaucrats a short, sharp shock with the imposition of a four-day week; scrapping corporation tax; bringing in a False Claims Act; cutting the cost of politics; protecting our national assets; taking on the pensions and unit trust industry and standing up to the EU.”
“only way we can defend the rights and interests of the majority against the greed, arrogance, waste and incompetence of the small ruling elite of politicians, bureaucrats, business bosses and bankers is by active campaigning and by using their laws against them. It will be interesting to see whether we can ever successfully fight back to defend our interests against the rapacious, self-serving, new ruling caste.”
“panjandrums”
“Another hidden danger with ‘switch and get rich’ is that older pensions might have guaranteed bonuses or annuity rate guarantees hidden away in the small print. Many of these will date from the 1980s and 1990s when interest rates were higher and stock-market performance was much better than it is today and will be for at least the next five to ten years. Most savers probably don’t know about these guarantees and may be lured into switching from older, better funds and thus losing valuable benefits.”
“People who are retiring now are finding that annuity rates have been squashed by QE, and that they will get a smaller pension than they expected. Retirees who get locked into a weak annuity will find that the Bank’s money printing leaves them out of pocket for the rest of their lives.134”
“Another commented, ‘QE is a key ingredient in a recipe that is destroying the value of the UK’s retirement savings. It’s a torture for pension funds because it artificially suppresses long-term interest rates’.138”
“Your annuity can be guaranteed (it pays out for an agreed number of years even if you pop your clogs) or not guaranteed (if you go to a better place, the annuity provider keeps all your money).”
“So, while it’s clearly in the interests of your pension provider and financial adviser to get hold of your money as soon as they can, it’s probably in your interest to buy your annuity as late as possible or”
“at least to wait until your failing health qualifies you for an enhanced annuity.”
“But if you’d waited before buying an annuity and suddenly go to that great spaceship in the sky before handing over your cash, then your family or friends or your dog will get your money - rather them than some greedy”
“As one critic of these schemes wrote, ‘the only winners in equity release are the companies and elderly people who die just a few years after taking out the policy.”
“it is true that the recession has been made much worse by Downing Street since the Coalition took office. But what was actually needed was not Labour’s cherished solution to every problem - more borrowing and spending that we couldn’t afford. Instead there should have been a rapid transfer of money from unproductive areas, like pointless bureaucracy, into job-creating activities such as house and road building.”
“while public spending more than doubled under the financially incontinent Gordon Brown and Ed Balls from £322bn to over £700bn, the number of frontline workers in the NHS, policing, local government and education only went up by a modest ten to fifteen per cent.”
“But the alternative is the return to power of Labour. This is the party which did more than any other to wreck Britain with its obsession with borrowing and wasting our money on its public-sector paymasters; its policy of diluting our national identity by allowing uncontrolled immigration; its attempts to destroy the middle classes, which Labour loathed, by removing any excellence or aspiration from our education system while Labour politicians mostly sent their own children to private schools; and its pandering to the liberal elites through the introduction of human rights legislation which has made human rights lawyers wealthy, has protected criminals and has been used to persecute those who do try to obey the law.”
“Oliver Cromwell is credited with having given the following speech when he dissolved Parliament on 20th April 1653: It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money. Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter’d your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil’d this sacred place, and turn’d the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress’d, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!”
“there are just 435 members of the House of Representatives and 100 in the Senate for almost three hundred million people.”
“Thanks to Blair’s catastrophically invertebrate decision to agree to a cut in Britain’s EU budget rebate, we now pay far too much into the EU compared to other countries. It’s time for our politicians to start negotiating with the EU by showing a bit of backbone rather than already starting as hopeless losers.”
“Brown inherited a growing economy, low inflation and rising tax revenues. If he had just done nothing, or stayed in bed, or taken up Scottish country dancing full time, or gone on holiday for the rest of his life and not meddled with the economy, he would have gone down in history as one of Britain’s greatest ever chancellors.”
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