MK Leader Dick Cole bloggedthis week about the sell-off of Royal Mail, which has now taken place despite the opposition of two-thirds of the public. (Unsurprisingly, the strongest support for the sale came from an urban environment, London, but even there it was little more than a quarter of those polled.) He pointed out notContinueContinue reading “Stampede at the Sales”
Category Archives: Economics
Taken For A Ride
Since 2000, London has had to contend not only with the pomp of its ancient mayoralty within the Square Mile but with the brashness of its new one within the broader mass of Greater London. Lord Mayor and Antimayor, like Pope and Antipope in the Middle Ages. Henley’s former MP, Boris Johnson, is the currentContinueContinue reading “Taken For A Ride”
Peak Collateral
The latest insights on vulture finance, from Golem XIV.
The New Menu
“the merchant’s function… is to provide for the nation. It is no more his function to get profit for himself out of that provision than it is a clergyman’s function to get his stipend. This stipend is a due and necessary adjunct, but not the object of his life, if he be a true clergyman,ContinueContinue reading “The New Menu”
The Moody’s Blues
“Growth is the disease for which it pretends to be the cure.”quoted by Australia’s Stable Population PartyTwo pieces of news this week illustrate the contrasting worldviews of today.The credit-raters have spoken. The UK is no longer AAA. While the Tory Chancellor bows deeply before the infinite wisdom of the Markets, Labour calls for more toContinueContinue reading “The Moody’s Blues”
New Wessex, New World
Our attention was recently drawn to a couple of very interesting links.The first link is to a blog that asks of Mebyon Kernow why it has a view on anything more than the internal affairs of Cornwall:“…the MK manifesto is littered with ‘policies’ relating to national and global issues over which the party will neverContinueContinue reading “New Wessex, New World”
Raining On Their Parade
After tomorrow, it all kicks off. How much better can it get? Can you contain your excitement? Bought the official Olympic flag to wave (beware of imitations)? Wondered where we’d be without the stern authority of the IOC and the generosity of public-spirited corporate sponsors? Stopped whining, as Boris demands? Faced with a series ofContinueContinue reading “Raining On Their Parade”
Banking on Stability
Stuckey is an important name in Wessex history. Douglas Stuckey, long the Chairman of Common Wealth, is a valued member of the WR Party Council. Outside politics, he is better known as the author of books and articles on Wessex history. Among these is Wessex Rising!, which charts the Monmouth Rebellion and the coming ofContinueContinue reading “Banking on Stability”
Experimental Subjects
The local press today quote one of the Occupy Bristol folk as saying they abandoned their College Green camp after discovering they’d all been part of a sinister ‘social experiment’. The mind boggles.
Everyone’s Fault But
More ‘creative thinking’ from the banksters and their buddies…And note well the comment from one respondent here, especially towards the end. Draining the Labour Party of its strength remains THE key task for genuine radicals today, including in Wessex, where it has no conceivable future if not as a parasite clinging to more powerful forcesContinueContinue reading “Everyone’s Fault But”
Wessex Regionalists 