This blog is supposed to be about local issues.
On the odd occasion I let the political animal get the better of me, and today is one of those occasions.
Dan Hannan is a Conservative MEP for South East England. Most Conservative MEP's are currently part of the EPP grouping, of which Dan was kicked out a few years back for pointing out that the Europeans liked to change the rules to silence dissent from people like him.
I can tell that already you like him....he has a blog here.
Yesterday he gave this speech whilst Gordon Brown was visiting which is well worth a watch:
For these snippets alone:
(on £20k debt per child) "Servicing the interest on our debt will cost more than educating that child"
"We all are sailing together into the squalls....but other ships used the good years to caulk their hulls and clear their rigging"
Welcome to my blog.
I was elected as Councillor for Macclesfield West in May 2008. I live in the centre of the ward with my Wife and Westie, and when I'm not a Councillor I'm a Scout Leader and I run a small consultancy business.
I'm equally at home cycling around the town as I am walking the dog up Shutlingsloe – Macclesfield is one of the few places that can provide this town and country balance.
This blog is intended to give the residents of Macclesfield West an insight into the work that I am doing on their behalf. This could be better services and facilities for children and young people, or perhaps trying to achieve a better plan for the Macclesfield Town Centre redevelopment. At all times I'm keen on reducing costs and keeping council tax as low as possible.
The blog is intended to be little lighthearted at times, perhaps irreverent but never irrelevant. You're encouraged to comment on each post and have your say - it's a great way to debate the issues of the day.
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4 comments:
Someone reads Guido.
Dizzy, Dale, telegraph, the lot. Everyone's carrying it.
A cheap speech, given by a cheapskate who has exactly that tone of voice that represents the heart of those who have actually failed us - the get-rich-quick barrow boys from Eton and Harrow who jumped into reckless trading.
I find is astonishing that I can look at this week's Time magazine and read what to me is so obvious - Reaganomics has been found out, thirty years of plunder and economic vandalism - and yet see nothing of that truth in UK mainstream papers. What's over is neo-con liberalism....it's proved a complete sham. Deregulation to the point of daftness - started here by Thatcher and pursued with equal zeal by New Labour - has brought the whole building crashing down. And here it's really painful because we'd assumed that finance was our future - to the extent that we didn't need to actually make anything, produce goods. It is this that has marked us out as particularly vulnerable.
I hold absolutely no brief for Brown. He's jumped into the mire of Thatcherism with the zest of the convert. At the same time, he's an old fashioned old Labour fix-it man, convinced that he can manoeuvre his way back into power at the next election - the speech here referring to Brown as Brezhnev is simply following the wonderful Private Eye series in which our Esteemed Leader issues his Soviet Directives of the day.
But because Brown is a spent force - and utterly so, he has no credibility at all - does not mean that we revert to the Old Etonians who make silly speeches in Strasbourg.
Because their kind have been right there in the middle of the money-grabbing bastards who should have been put down by a proper Labour Government over ten years ago. But Labour decided not to fight them - but to join them.
@ Anon.
It strikes me that were a chap from Eton to criticize someone (you, perhaps) for the way they spoke or the school they went to, there would be complete outrage.
And yet it's perfectly acceptable to prejudge an Etonian on that basis?
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