Gordon Brown: 'I could walk away from office tomorrow'

Does anyone in Britain doubt that we are being ruled over by a delusional madman living in a bizarre fantasy land, in which a glorious undiscovered country of wondrous socialism is just around the corner?

Well, if you know anyone like that, just point them at this hilarious article to put them right.

I don't think I've laughed so much since this petulant Queen's Dance of the Comedian video.

And so to Dubai again...

As I seem to be making most of my money in the UAE these days, I wish I could pay my taxes there, rather than to the odious occupant of Downing Street, but we're working on that.

I must say though, thanks to the crackpot quisling policies of US satraps, Blair and Brown, it is rather unsettling flying into Iranian airspace twice in a week, when the supreme leader of Iran has just told his followers to declare 'Death to the UK'.

It shall be a happy day when I can finally burn my UK passport and replace it with one from Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Singapore, or one of the other tiny Hoppeian islands of property rights, peace, and freedom, or even one Utopian day burn all of my passports and all other government licensing, tax, and regulatory strangulation.

Oh happy day.

You think that unlikely? Well, in 1975 did you think that the Soviet Union would collapse overnight in just a few years? Did you think you'd be able to carry around over 10,000 songs and 50 movies in your pocket? Or did you think the world would be in a complete galloping hysteria about plastic bags and what the temperature might be in a hundred years?

One hundred and fifty years ago, Karl Marx sat in a room in London with less than 100 followers. The powerful authoritarian governments of that time considered him a crackpot, with many of them actively seeking his arrest and imprisonment. Thanks to the freedoms of a mainly property-rights-based Britain, he was able to work unmolested as a single man at his desk in the British Library.

Now, just 150 years later, his crackpot policies generated in that library form the bedrock law of virtually every western government.

Everything that is possible is achievable. That's certainly what they believe in Dubai, one of the lowest tax societies in the world. It will certainly be nice to see how they're getting on with 'The Burj', the tallest building in the world, situated where thirty years ago there was nothing but sand dunes.

There's no hiding place for shifty politicians in this YouTube age

Speaking of the lying obfuscating dissembling evil death-eating puck-faced witch, Yvette Cooper, The Jeffster decides to lay into her too in his column today. I thought this piece was so good I would trawl up the best two YouTubes the Jeffster mentions, purely for your (and my) amusement:

Here's my favourite; Yvette Cooper grilled by Andrew Neil on UK debt - Fantastic!:


A close runner-up with El Paxo himself, Jezzer Paxman; Yvette Cooper on Gordon's 10p tax U-turn - Skewered, one doesn't sympathise!:


How does this mendacious liar look at herself in the mirror each day, especially waking up next to Hitler-lookalike Ed Balls? Perhaps nobody in the Cabinet dares have mirrors in their houses, or they're all smashed up like the serial killer's house in 'Red Dragon'?

Maybe that's the new nickname we should apply to Ms Cooper? Or is that her husband Ed?

Ed Balls, yesterday

Blackout

In his leader's acceptance speech in May 2007, Gordon Brown promised "a different type of politics – a more open and honest dialogue". I thought it might be interesting to put this to the test, so I've uncovered one of Gordon Brown's own expenses receipts, officially published yesterday:

Stupendous, readers, eh! :-)

And he's not the worst offender. The most blacked-out MP is Shahid Malik, who resigned a few weeks ago as Justice Minister but who has now popped up again as Communities Minister (whatever on Earth that is), despite claiming the most expenses of any MP in Parliament and being under investigation for incredibly dodgy accounting. Still, I suppose it'll be less embarrassing to Jonah Brown when Malik is frog-marched away by the police, as Communities Minister, without him being the horribly Orwellian titled "Justice Minister". Now that would have been funny.

Still, I wonder why he re-appointed Malik at all? Couldn't Jonah have just ennobled another one of his mates? But seeing as Malik is the first ever Muslim minister, who can deliver hundreds of thousands of Asian votes in the next election, the new bedrock of Labour support, I'm sure some other important reason of talent and probity must have emerged.

Not that Gordon Brown is a rancid lying hypocritical Stalinist crook, of course, whose fingers turn everything he touches into dust.

It wouldn't be that at all.

Gordon Brown's purge will leave us with MPs fit only for a call-centre

The excellent Benedict Brogan writes a withering piece on the mendacity of Gordon Brown and his probably successful attempt to turn the House of Commons into a 'Socialist-Only' gravy shop for greedy little lickspittles.

What's interesting about the article though is its usual tone of 'Democracy is being dissolved before our eyes', that you find in most newspapers.

The exact opposite is true. We were probably freest in the modern period of this country's history between the period of the Napoleonic Wars and the Crimean War. The British state flowered in the fight against Napoleon, instituting the first income tax to do so. Thankfully, when the Corsican Megalomaniac ran out of bodies to murder, British freedom lovers destroyed the income tax and the state withered away again, until it used the miserable excuse of the preposterous Crimean War to re-institute the horrible income tax.

This tax then helped grow the state up to its current appalling levels of interference.

The period in-between these two wars was the most amazing one in history for the growth of the industrial revolution, the incredible growth in wealth of the ordinary English person, and the progression in education and science. An age like this will never return until we abandon the state once more, and wither it down, hopefully to absolutely nothing this time to prevent its re-emergence.

So how did the state manage to re-grow and then get us into the stupid Crimean War, which it then used as a lever to re-introduce the further leverage of the hated income tax?

It was through democracy, and James Mill's successful instigation of the various plebiscite acts, throughout the 19th century, which spread democracy ever more successfully, taking Britain from the purely private property society it almost became. The rest, as they say, is history, with ever more democracy leading to ever more freedoms being stolen, regulations being imposed, and taxation being heaped upon the ordinary people to feed the ever-growing tax eating class.

Brown's emasculation of parliament isn't in spite of democracy, it is because of democracy. And when the state lowers the voting age to 16, this process is going to get even worse.

As an aside, perhaps we would be better placing Parliament in a cheap Hindustan call centre and populating it with 646 locals called 'Sam', 'CJ', 'Jenny', and 'Susan'. They would be polite, take our calls with interest, and then send us nice letters saying how much they valued our concerns. Would this be any worse than the current emasculated Parliament and its hundreds of back-bench voting fodder turds? It would certainly be a lot cheaper, as they'd all be locals on much lower wages than the Westminster crew, and the expenses would be minimal. They would be happy. We would be happy. I think this is an idea whose time has come.

I commend this proposition to the House.

The state rolls ever on - The destruction of more freedom

Speaking of Ms Rowling, as I've mentioned before I think it's quite telling that at the end of the 'Deathly Hallows', the greatest marker of Voldemort's fascism is his planned imposition of compulsory state education and the banning of the freedom of wizard parents to educate their children in any way they wish, including by keeping them at home.

To my mind, I agree with Ms Rowling. This IS the great marker of fascism, with Hitler himself banning home education in 1938.

So it comes as no surprise that the British State, despite its political dancing act almost falling off the stage in the last few months, and with Brown barricaded into the Berlin Bunker moving non-existent divisions around his Government Monopoly Board, is going to plough on with another 'initiative' to deny children the right to be kept out of the clutches of the state's thought police, in the state-regulated education system.

The repulsive Hitler lookalike, Ed Balls, in a fit of pique in not being made Chancellor, has announced that he is to start forcing parents to be examined by hostile bureaucrats if they dare to show the temerity of not shovelling their children's bodies and minds into the state-regulated thought police system.

No doubt, once this measure is instituted, mission creep will finally end up with home education being banned completely, and some soon-to-be-molested children being kidnapped into 'state care', especially those whose parents defy the 'authorities'. (Though who gave them this 'authority' to rule our lives, I don't know.)

You would think, wouldn't you, that with the Labour government falling apart by the day, that it would be pouring forth only measures that everyone loves, such as 'Kindness to Puppies' day, or tax cuts, or regulation cuts, but no, the marching hatred of the state towards the people who sustain it goes ever on.

Voldemort is actually a joke. For real evil, just try entering the future mad-eyed rancid dreams of Ed 'So What?' Balls and his lying puck-faced wife, Yvette 'LeStrange' Cooper, the King and Queen of the House of Commons expenses system.

Potter plagiarism claims denied

What is it with all of this envy over J.K.Rowling?

Every author is 'heavily influenced' by every other author they've ever read, especially any they've liked. In fact, Stephen King even goes so far as to recommend that a budding author do nothing else other than read other authors, in order to soak in their magic.

So what books has J.K.Rowling been 'inspired' by? Well, going from my own personal knowledge, it's certain that the authors that feature heavily within the Harry Potter series are, in order, Terry Pratchett (Unseen University of Wizards), J.R.R.Tolkien (Sauron, Gandalf, and the relationship between Frodo and Sam), and C.S.Lewis (Plucky British private school children take on the evil world of dark magic). There are probably tens if not hundreds of others (The Brothers Grimm, Robert Graves, and Roald Dahl spring to mind.)

This is the problem with intellectual property, of course, which is a horrible manifestation of the state propping up intellectuals in return for their intellectual support, which is why intellectual property is something which will eventually disappear, when we finally wither the state in the Austrian revolution.

I myself am writing a BRILLIANT novel, inspired by Dr Sean Gabb, which I'll be self-publishing before Christmas (order hundreds, now). In it I have been 'heavily influenced' by Robert Heinlein, Dr Sean Gabb, Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, J.R.R.Tolkien, J.K.Rowling, Stephen King, Ian Fleming, Bernard Cornwell, Patrick O'Brian, C.S.Lewis, Robert Graves, Terry Pratchett, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Uncle Tom Cobley and all. Does this stop it being a BRILLIANT novel? Of course it doesn't. What will stop that is a lack of talent on my part (not that I'm worried about that of course), because it's BRILLIANT.

Intellectual Property. It's end cannot come soon enough.

Another thieving crook bites the dust

It's hilarious.

When the rotten mafia organisation that steals the wealth of the nation raises new taxes, it always claims that this is in the 'public interest' (i.e. in the interests of every tax eater in the land).

But when Treasury Ministers, who enforce the rules of the Treasury on the rest of us, deliberately use crooked measures and subterfuge to avoid their own taxes, and are then incompetent enough to actually get caught doing this despite having all the levers of power at their disposal, then total public humiliation for them is the best they deserve.

So goodbye Kitty Ussher, you rotten piece of tax eating filth, and good riddance.

Green shoots? Strictly for the colour-blind

David Blanchflower also thinks the UK is up the chuff, and that the recent happy talk protestations from people like Edmund Conway that 'The Recession is Over' are nothing but flim flam. However, before you say 'David Who?', just check out this CV entry:

David Blanchflower is the Bruce V Rauner Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, USA, and served on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee until earlier this year.

Crazy.

Here's my response to his article:

Jack Maturin on June 17, 2009 at 10:01 PM

David, as a follower of Austrian economics myself, I agree entirely with your analysis. What puzzles me though is why you deliberately made this worse, when you were taking the Queen's shilling at the Bank of England, by agreeing to lower interest rates to re-inflate the burst bubble, to make a future bubble even worse?

This worsening crisis is entirely down to central banks and their printing press mentality of using counterfeiting to solve every problem. Can you explain why that now you are no longer taking the shilling, that you have completely reversed your position?

If he ever gets to read this, I would love to be a fly on the wall to witness his reaction! :-)

Gold sold like chocolate from German vending machines

Interesting.

As Mr Schiff always says,'Gold IS Money'.

It would seem that the German people, who have been wiped out by inflation more than most, are beginning to agree with the teutonically-named Connecticuter.

Danken Sie Gott.

Unemployment hits 12-year high of over 2.2million

So, 12 long years of the Labour Party ruling this land, with endless targets, taxes, regulations, waste, and fascism, and the country has more unemployment than it started with, despite the several million extra people being taken onto the government's job roles to outreach awareness, and despite a dozen years of the best efforts of Whitehall's finest civil servants to further massage unemployment figures downwards.

Well done, Gordon.

Obviously, if there's any more of this quantitative easing green shoots nonsense, these figures (and the human misery behind them) are only going to get slowly worse as the Depression twists and turns ever further south in its quest to find the bottom level of government stupidity.

Fortunately, a government bond crisis should be coming soon to stop these idiots wasting even more of our money. Let us hope that once HM Government does run out of cash, that sanity can once again prevail in this land of socialist idiocy.

Happy talk - Gary North isn't worried

Uncle Gary puts into words, once again, what so few can.

Calling Paul from Oxford

On Peter Schiff's latest radio podcast (10th June), in which he reckons the UK is up the chuff, he took a call from a 'Paul' from 'Oxford in the UK'.

Good questions, Paul. (Whoever you are.)

Basically, the Schiffmeister said that Britain is up the chuff, will almost certainly fold the pound into the euro - which he said would be a good thing for Britain! - but that we weren't as badly off as the Americans (though a lot worse off than anywhere else).

It's worth a listen. Especially for the bit with 'Paul'. (And no, it wasn't me. Though I would be interested to find out who it was, so if you're reading Paul, please do say hello in a comment to those of us labouring under giant glasses of Pimms down here in the south of Oxfordshire.)

The pound will definitely fold into the Euro

In his latest radio podcast (10th June), Peter Schiff thinks Britain is up the chuff too.

Government Paying Banks to Help Sell Gilts

Guido Fawkes thinks the UK is up the chuff too.

The Currency War

Lew Rockwell thinks the UK is up the chuff too.

Levy on phone lines to fund universal broadband

We're not taxed enough in Britain, apparently, so house-flipping expenses creep Ben Bradshaw, has decided to tax us some more, charging every household in Britain £6 pounds a year for the privilege of giving other people cheap broadband.

Obviously, with the rate of government waste running at about two-thirds, for any sum of money, other people (i.e. Labour voters) will only get £2 pounds of benefit, with the other £4 pounds disappearing up the chuff of government bureaucrats, privileged government contractors, and expenses scammers like Bradshaw.

And once established, do we think this 'Broadband Tax' will stay at £6 pounds a year? No, once established this will creep up and up until it goes over a £100 pounds a year within a few years, just like road tax, the TV licence tax, and all the other taxes the rotten British government keeps lumbering us proles with. What will be even funnier is when the people who get 'free' broadband from this, start getting taxed too, under this levy, just as the poorest in society pay income tax to help the state pay for its own salaries, expenses, and pensions welfare services.

And just look at that rhetoric:

This money would go to an independent Next Generation Fund that would provide subsidies for operators to deliver super-fast internet to areas where it would not normally be commercially viable.

The clue is in the phrase 'commercially viable'. This means that the free market, the greatest wealth generation engine of all time, and for all time, has determined that scarce resources will be mis-allocated if spent in this direction.

But what does government care about scarce resources? That's just someone else's problem, when you can use a gun to extract resources with menaces.

So what else could this money be spent on that would be 'commercially viable'? Who knows? We'll never find out what good it could have done elsewhere, because it's all going to get wasted on more government consumptive circuses, so Labour voters can watch free porn and have their emails digested more quickly by government thought police. Bastiat's broken window fallacy is thus once again left unseen.

So pay more to get 'free' broadband? What will these creeps think of next?

UPDATE: I've repackaged the piece above and placed it as a comment on a related Labourgraph article (Jack Maturin on June 16, 2009 at 06:42 PM).

That pesky weak pound

Alas, Maturin Towers is fully engaged at the moment trying to generate revenue streams for the occupant, leaving little time for the real work of trying to help generate an Austrian revolution, but we couldn't help noticing the following story in the Labourgraph:

=> Weak pound helps sustain UK inflation

It's that pesky weak pound again, drat it. It's nothing to do with the Bank of England, of course, flooding the world and filling up all of the banks with confetti. Oh no.

I also really don't want to succumb to Fisking, but check out this quote:

Inflation has now come in above economists' expectations in five of the past seven months. "These repeated inflation overshoots cannot plausibly all be dismissed as erratic," said Michael Saunders, economist at Citigroup.

Fantastic! :-)

There's not much that a dose of reading Human Action wouldn't fix, but economists being surprised over the 'government-preferred' figure of CPI (i.e. heavily massaged and manipulated figure of CPI) isn't going to make M4 at 17% go away any time soon.

We've a long way to go into this Depression yet. We may not even be at the end of the beginning.

Right, back to tender writing and all of that pseudo-entrepreneurial nonsense.

It's not often I entertain regrets, but perhaps Walter Block is right. Perhaps it is better to live the life of an Austrian economics professor than it is trying to earn a crust in a volatile market place.

But no, je ne regrette riens.

The recession is over

Well, so says Edmund Conway.

Well, call me Scaramouche, but I prefer to follow the thoughts of Uncle Gary:

=> A Regional Central Banker Blows the Whistle

Forutnately, this is one of the few Uncle Gary pieces, in the last few months, where I haven't felt immediately suicidal afterwards.

Obviously, I could follow Mr Conway's happy philosophy instead, but escaping a bubble created by debt and inflation, by borrowing and inflating even more, is a solution I just find a little too difficult to bear.

The next couple of years will of course tell us whether Austrianism really is 'True Economics' or not. Being a believer, I know it's right. But will you change to Austrianism, if we do turn out to be correct?

Brown's latest Ceauşescu moment - Booed at D-Day ceremony

Nicolae Ceauşescu was perhaps one of the worst human beings who ever lived, but even he had the sense to only have one "Ceauşescu moment".

Gordon Brown, of course, being the greedy self-obsessed monster that he is, is doing much better, with one "Ceauşescu moment" after another. Here are the details on the latest one, when was booed at the D-Day ceremony, yesterday, by old British soldiers.

Here it is on YouTube: