Comments on: Scorched earth and buying elections http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/07/14/scorched-earth-and-buying-elections/ Incisive and topical campaigns and commentary on today's issues and tomorrow's problems Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:05:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Acorn http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/07/14/scorched-earth-and-buying-elections/#comment-19341 Acorn Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:23:03 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=4047#comment-19341 Forget the request JR, I found the answer:- http://www2.parl.gc.ca/MarleauMontpetit/DocumentViewer.aspx?Sec=Ch03&Seq=2&Lang=E Forget the request JR, I found the answer:-

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/MarleauMontpetit/DocumentViewer.aspx?Sec=Ch03&Seq=2&Lang=E

]]> By: figurewizard http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/07/14/scorched-earth-and-buying-elections/#comment-19340 figurewizard Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:44:34 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=4047#comment-19340 What you describe mirrors what is already happening in the business world. We have already seen tax force the likes of Yahoo, Google, Kraft, Gallaher, Proctor and Gamble Colgate-Palmolive and Experian to relocate their European head offices abroad while McDonalds are ready to follow suit. The City is also under threat as Switzerland in particular woos non Doms engaged in hedge funds, private equity and other investments. Similar relocations by Eton, Harrow, Charterhouse and others will be great news for RyanAir but of course they pay their taxes in Dublin. What you describe mirrors what is already happening in the business world. We have already seen tax force the likes of Yahoo, Google, Kraft, Gallaher, Proctor and Gamble Colgate-Palmolive and Experian to relocate their European head offices abroad while McDonalds are ready to follow suit. The City is also under threat as Switzerland in particular woos non Doms engaged in hedge funds, private equity and other investments.

Similar relocations by Eton, Harrow, Charterhouse and others will be great news for RyanAir but of course they pay their taxes in Dublin.

]]> By: ManicBeancounter http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/07/14/scorched-earth-and-buying-elections/#comment-19339 ManicBeancounter Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:25:19 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=4047#comment-19339 Bill - You showing a little a slight preference here. Being from Lancashire, I earnestly believe you not only have to consider the the numerous Blackpuddin consoisseurs, but the loads of tripe traditionalists as well. I am sure that after the election there would be plenty of former MPs who would apply to be a spokesperson to represent these interests. Bill – You showing a little a slight preference here. Being from Lancashire, I earnestly believe you not only have to consider the the numerous Blackpuddin consoisseurs, but the loads of tripe traditionalists as well. I am sure that after the election there would be plenty of former MPs who would apply to be a spokesperson to represent these interests.

]]> By: Matthew Reynolds http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/07/14/scorched-earth-and-buying-elections/#comment-19338 Matthew Reynolds Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:49:01 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=4047#comment-19338 Never mind a £100 million tax hike on private schools we should bring back the assisted places scheme so that the brightest kids from poor backgrounds get a decent start in life ( of the kind that many MP's and their offspring have enjoyed). Education ought to be about liberation & social mobility so that each generation does better than the previous one while our workforce of the future is well equipped for a competitive economy. Please John will the Tories abandon Michael Gove's complex plan and just give generous school vouchers to the least well off ? Honestly the Lib Dem's talk more sense on school choice than the Tories ! Has the world gone mad....... Quite simply you can easily explain the Lib Dem plan on the doorstep but Michael Gove's is so incomprehensible that is deifies belief... Please John publish these comments and see about a debate in Parliament about which political party trusts parents the most to choose their child's schooling. That too is an important issue as LEA tyranny has failed - time to trust the parents and by extension Adam Smith's Invisible Hand ! Never mind a £100 million tax hike on private schools we should bring back the assisted places scheme so that the brightest kids from poor backgrounds get a decent start in life ( of the kind that many MP’s and their offspring have enjoyed). Education ought to be about liberation & social mobility so that each generation does better than the previous one while our workforce of the future is well equipped for a competitive economy.

Please John will the Tories abandon Michael Gove’s complex plan and just give generous school vouchers to the least well off ? Honestly the Lib Dem’s talk more sense on school choice than the Tories ! Has the world gone mad…….

Quite simply you can easily explain the Lib Dem plan on the doorstep but Michael Gove’s is so incomprehensible that is deifies belief…

Please John publish these comments and see about a debate in Parliament about which political party trusts parents the most to choose their child’s schooling. That too is an important issue as LEA tyranny has failed – time to trust the parents and by extension Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand !

]]> By: Adrian Peirson http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/07/14/scorched-earth-and-buying-elections/#comment-19337 Adrian Peirson Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:04:03 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=4047#comment-19337 Pure Coincidence I'm sure. Pure Coincidence I’m sure.

]]> By: Adrian Peirson http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/07/14/scorched-earth-and-buying-elections/#comment-19336 Adrian Peirson Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:03:12 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=4047#comment-19336 Given the Baxter Scandal in which someone mixed Live avian Flu with Live Human flu and almost triggered Global Armageddon by shipping it to 18 European countries ready for putting into our Vaccines, From a Psychiatric perspective I'd like to know as quickly as possible, How does he compare with Stalin. Given the Baxter Scandal in which someone mixed Live avian Flu with Live Human flu and almost triggered Global Armageddon by shipping it to 18 European countries ready for putting into our Vaccines,
From a Psychiatric perspective I’d like to know as quickly as possible, How does he compare with Stalin.

]]> By: Mike Stallard http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/07/14/scorched-earth-and-buying-elections/#comment-19335 Mike Stallard Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:18:36 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=4047#comment-19335 Something positive: I have a friend who works for a major Public School. She is currently in the Middle East starting off a school there with the same name and the same standards. In Thailand there are a couple of English Public Schools. So there is a sort of viral expansion for when the Labour Party spitefully decides to end all competition to their disgusting Comprehensives. Something positive: I have a friend who works for a major Public School. She is currently in the Middle East starting off a school there with the same name and the same standards. In Thailand there are a couple of English Public Schools. So there is a sort of viral expansion for when the Labour Party spitefully decides to end all competition to their disgusting Comprehensives.

]]> By: Freddy http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/07/14/scorched-earth-and-buying-elections/#comment-19334 Freddy Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:04:29 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=4047#comment-19334 More "leaks" about tomorrow's energy paper : http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/12/fuel-social-tariff-energy-bills Green power is going to be hideously more expensive than efficient power, a horribly regressive tax on the population. So the twerp Milliband is going to charge affluent families more, calling it a social tariff. Meanwhile, no action is taken on replacing our aging generating capacity. Even assuming Cameron doesn't actually believe this global warming rubbish and is just paying lip service to it in order to get elected, a new Tory government will have to embark on an immediate crash program of propaganda to justify a sensible approach to the nation's energy generation. Given that the EU's Large Combustion Plant Directive is ging to close down our large coal-fired generators within the lifetime of the next parliament (taking out ~20% of our generating capacity), and that the nuclear plants are all on their last legs and should be closed down in the next few years, the next Government seems to face a real possibility of regular sustained power cuts. Which, I think, will not be good for its re-election prospects. How's that for scorched earth ? More “leaks” about tomorrow’s energy paper :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/12/fuel-social-tariff-energy-bills

Green power is going to be hideously more expensive than efficient power, a horribly regressive tax on the population. So the twerp Milliband is going to charge affluent families more, calling it a social tariff. Meanwhile, no action is taken on replacing our aging generating capacity.

Even assuming Cameron doesn’t actually believe this global warming rubbish and is just paying lip service to it in order to get elected, a new Tory government will have to embark on an immediate crash program of propaganda to justify a sensible approach to the nation’s energy generation.
Given that the EU’s Large Combustion Plant Directive is ging to close down our large coal-fired generators within the lifetime of the next parliament (taking out ~20% of our generating capacity), and that the nuclear plants are all on their last legs and should be closed down in the next few years, the next Government seems to face a real possibility of regular sustained power cuts. Which, I think, will not be good for its re-election prospects.

How’s that for scorched earth ?

]]> By: no one http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/07/14/scorched-earth-and-buying-elections/#comment-19333 no one Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:40:02 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=4047#comment-19333 bill actually the discrimination against folk from the north is much more real than that hariet harman should be shot, but the anti discrimination legislation should be extended to prevent discrimination for regional or class based accents, which school you went to etc the north suffers badly under labour and sensible folk on the TV speaking for the conservatives with northern/working class accents would be able to make progress, as it is the majority of the conservative reps on TV remain public school and/or obvious southern middle class fodder what happened to daves great cry to hear from a wider section of the community that wanted to stand as prospective conservative MP's - how many folk who genuinely are the 1st generation to escape working class routes made it? i actually think one of the most offensive things that consecutive governments have done is allow ongoing poor schools to survive, and to allow poor kids on bad estates no possible escape route through education since you mention sunderland you only have to look at pennywell school, it was terrible 30 odd years ago, and its still appauling, how such a school is allowed to open its doorts in a 21st century western democracy is beyond me and hence we are driving outselves to dust bill

actually the discrimination against folk from the north is much more real than that

hariet harman should be shot, but the anti discrimination legislation should be extended to prevent discrimination for regional or class based accents, which school you went to etc

the north suffers badly under labour and sensible folk on the TV speaking for the conservatives with northern/working class accents would be able to make progress, as it is the majority of the conservative reps on TV remain public school and/or obvious southern middle class fodder

what happened to daves great cry to hear from a wider section of the community that wanted to stand as prospective conservative MP’s – how many folk who genuinely are the 1st generation to escape working class routes made it?

i actually think one of the most offensive things that consecutive governments have done is allow ongoing poor schools to survive, and to allow poor kids on bad estates no possible escape route through education

since you mention sunderland you only have to look at pennywell school, it was terrible 30 odd years ago, and its still appauling, how such a school is allowed to open its doorts in a 21st century western democracy is beyond me

and hence we are driving outselves to dust

]]> By: Robert Eve http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/07/14/scorched-earth-and-buying-elections/#comment-19332 Robert Eve Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:49:40 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=4047#comment-19332 One can't help having a low opinion of the electorate when they vote for the socialists three times in a row! One can’t help having a low opinion of the electorate when they vote for the socialists three times in a row!

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