The Times today calls for the scraping of the universal provision to pensioners of winter fuel allowance. Suffolk County Council calls for out sourcing of all its services including libraries and care homes for the elderly and apparently those convicted of violent assaults may not face imprisonment as the government attempts to cut back on public spending on law and order.
Anyone who thinbks these are not ideological assaults on the public sector in the name of "the small state" and the enabling council as opposed to the council that delivers services is deluding themselves.
On Tuesday night the Lib Dems voted against the amendment to the Electoral Reform Referendum Bill in Parliament. After years of campaigning for PR, they dropped it like a hot potato. The same day the so called St Vinve abandonned his idea of a graduate tax and hoisted tuition fees in fact creating a free market allowing elite universities to price middle income students out of places.
Today I've been reading the Living Planet report of the WWF, it highlights that our current rates of consumption, we'll need another planet by 2030. Yet in his interview on Sunday, Ed Milliband calls for more growth. Sustainability and wealth distribution is what is needed, but to get mainstream politicians to see what's under their noses....
The only good news was yesterday the media were getting ready to celebrate Thatcher's 85th birthday, but fortunately and ironically that was upstaged by a group of miners !
Key Quotes
"Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist."
(Kenneth Boulding)
"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. "
(Raymond Chandler)
"Live simply so that others can simply live." (unknown)
"I cannot live without books" (Thomas Jefferson)
"Sport is war without the shooting" (George Orwell)
"New York is a great city to live in if you can afford to get out of it" (William Rossa Cole)
The secret of a happy ending is knowing when to roll the credits (Patterson Hood)
(Kenneth Boulding)
"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. "
(Raymond Chandler)
"Live simply so that others can simply live." (unknown)
"I cannot live without books" (Thomas Jefferson)
"Sport is war without the shooting" (George Orwell)
"New York is a great city to live in if you can afford to get out of it" (William Rossa Cole)
The secret of a happy ending is knowing when to roll the credits (Patterson Hood)
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