If you haven’t seen today’s Conservative Home the link below is well worth following:

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/11/hammersmith-fulham-and-the-emperors-new-clothes.html

The methods adopted by H&F Council are a template for the next conservative government and reflect the same principles that JR and his contributors have been advocating for so long.
They embody the same nitty gritty attention to detail that many small business owners regard as second nature. (But what would Labour know about that you ask?)

Whenever Brown or his trained parrots squawk that Tory cuts will hamper recovery from the recession they should be put in their place by quoting H&F’s policy and tactics …
“It’s about cutting waste not the economy stupid!”

Still, this subject is a little off topic. Following today’s news about £30 bn (or more) of extra taxpayer funding of the partially state owned banks, we may find that this blog returns to the subject of banks tomorrow.

Whilst it is clear that your policies are absolutely right, I think we need a more compelling marketing strategy for them.

We need new terms for “Taxes”, “Spending” and “Borrowing”, to make them more relevant to today’s consumers of government.

We should rename them “Family Surplus Payments”, “Credits to the Economy” and “Future Deficit Opportunities” respectively.

This would follow up the great success of the strategy of calling financing government spending by printing money “Quantitative Easing”.

Spinningly yours

Reply: Brilliant! At last a reply that understands the genius of our strategy. I will ask our personnel department if we could fit you into our organisation – you could go far.

The Tories look likely to win power in May 2010. If you work in the public sector fear for your jobs, fear for your kids’ future and fear for life in old age.

Mike

There really needs to be a lot more straight talking by the Tories, and some markers laid down, in the form of principles which will be stuck to. A one-off major news conference with Cameron/Osborne/Hague/Clarke as a minimum would prove that you guys meant it. If these ideas are copied by Labour (a la Bank Sales) you need to say “we thought of that first, they disagreed then copied it”. And when it all goes pear-shaped with inflation, it is no good being there saying “we kind of didn’t agree with all that money printing at the time”. There really isn’t an issue with the Tories calling for halting QE, lower property prices for our children, and “save the Pound” for all of us. Or is there? The timidity is worrying…..

until patients can change provider at any point of the treatment cycle, and the money genuinely follows their decision, then I am afraid the NHS will continue to be terrible

many of the problems of the NHS are caused by useless GPs and patients need real spending power to force change in GPs too, force them to open when patients want, and so many other things that GPs in this country get away with that just dont happen in countries where patients have more buying power in the relationship

Clearly, in terms of population control the citizen is not powerless, in fact in the West we have taken the issue into our own hands. Since the ‘67 abortion act, something in the region of 10million infants have been put to death. (United Kingdom Do ‘Health’ figures avaliable on line).

New Labour’s response has been to import more population to compensate.

The figures for Europe must be dramitically higher.

By the way, in terms of cutting world population, are you volunteering?

On Global Warming: I agree with you, it is a scam, sadly the leader of the Tory party has bought into the scam.

“Personally, I assumed neo-classical economics was dead and buried after the last two years. It appears I was wrong, we have a Tory Shadow Chancellor talking about the public sector ‘crowding out investment’, about the virtues of ‘thrift’ and the need for ‘export-led growth’. It’s as if we’d collectively stepped into a time machine and returned to the early 1930s.

“Again let’s be clear. These polices were been tried in the 1930s – they caused a depression. They are currently being tried in Ireland – they are causing depression-like falls in GDP: massive unemployment, higher budget deficits and deflation.”

In other words, let the State grow and grow instead of the economy which earns us money!
This is copied and pasted from the economics page of Labour List. So your CEO really is peddling the party line.

You forgot to mention your highly successful rebranding policy. Under Sunny Jim Callaghan public expenditure rose to 46% of GDP, but that was Old Labour. Under New Labour, public expenditure will rise to 48% of GDP in two years time. You should explain that the ‘New’ stands for new expenditure.

Yous faithfully,

McScrooge

With this in mind, I have set our local primary school the task of designing some new bank notes. To keep with the global standards for such items, that is the 1,2,5 sequence, I have asked them to concentrate on 1000; 2000 and 5000 pound notes. I think you will agree that there is little point in designing smaller denominations for the next decade.

Naturally, your face and the face of our chief finance officer will feature largely on the front. On the reverse there will be a scene of several citizens representing the sectors of our economy, with there trousers down, undergoing Colonic manipulation with a body temperature appendage.

A fitting legacy I feel sure you will agree. Every time we enter a food shop, with these new bank notes, we will be reminded of your outstanding achievements.

And remember that we are coming up to March soon, so every penny has to be spent by then, to use up all of the Grants, Budgets etc. otherwise horror of horrors, there may be a surplus and hence a reduction for the next year.

No point in having money in the Bank, it has to be spent.

So resurfacing footpaths, laying down coloured tarmac, erecting a few more signs, painting a few more lines, both white and yellow (must not be predudiced) raising car park charges, road tolls, installing more traffic lights, pedestrian crossings, building more islands or refuges, putting in more speed humps, forming more bus lanes, erecting more Cctv cameras and the like all helps to spend the dosh, and ensure that Council tax will continue to rise.

We must not of course forget to make sure that the Pension contributions of all Public sector employees are also kept in the black.

But we will delay by Public Enquiry some new roads, by passes, bridges, and car parks, and limit the amount of road maintainance that we complete.

And this is only Local Government, just think what happens on a National scale.

Think they call it cookoo land.