What the Tories say they will do ..

[LLETSA]

So says the voice of doom. Can't be done as in the self-driving car or as in faster-than-light travel? (That is to say, is it just very hard or theoretically impossible?)

Can't be done because much of it is already being done more cheaply elsewhere, which will increasingly be the case, and also because there's no political will to try.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Boris Johnson, who is leading the fight against a European crackdown on City financiers, faced accusations of being “bought off” today, when it emerged that more than half the money donated to his mayoral campaign came from the financial sector including hedge funds and private equity.

http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2009/10/11/boris-bought-off-by-hedge-funds/

Exactly what you'd expect from such an unabashed shithead of course.

 

[Carousel]

Can't be done because much of it is already being done more cheaply elsewhere, which will increasingly be the case, and also because there's no political will to try.

Well of course. That's rather what puts it under discussion. Political policy is primarily a matter of the international exchangeability of the currency. Within that framework, the Tories accept and act on your premise far more effectively than your (inferred) lack of support for them suggests.

 

[LLETSA]

Well of course. That's rather what puts it under discussion. Political policy is primarily a matter of the international exchangeability of the currency. Within that framework, the Tories accept and act on your premise far more effectively than your (inferred) lack of support for them suggests.

What?

 

[Carousel]

Political policy is primarily a matter of the international exchangeability of the currency. Do you know what that means? It means that the programme of this-or-that party is designed to maintain imports of food and fuel. In proffering an alternative, one will have to explain how that’ll work without some speculative appeal to “international solidarity”. Though, like I say, I kinda got the impression you're more-or-less of the End-is-Nigh persuasion. Waiting for Armageddon.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Boris Johnson proposes killing children:

http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2009/10/14/boris-johnson-will-kill-children/

 

[LLETSA]

Political policy is primarily a matter of the international exchangeability of the currency. Do you know what that means? It means that the programme of this-or-that party is designed to maintain imports of food and fuel. In proffering an alternative, one will have to explain how that’ll work without some speculative appeal to “international solidarity”. Though, like I say, I kinda got the impression you're more-or-less of the End-is-Nigh persuasion. Waiting for Armageddon.

No it isn't what political policy primarily is. That's merely one aspect of it, albeit an important one.

What does waiting for Armageddon mean?

 

[Carousel]

More than "important". For ths country, it's the be-all-and-end-all. It's the root of all policy decision. The obstacle to any variation. Waiting for Armageddon? Convinced of our inevitable decline into severe austerity.

 

[LLETSA]

More than "important". For ths country, it's the be-all-and-end-all. It's the root of all policy decision. The obstacle to any variation. Waiting for Armageddon? Convinced of our inevitable decline into severe austerity.

It might be the root of major policy decision but obviously not all. And the very fact that it is rules out serious reindustrialisation, which is what we were talking about.

I don't know what the outcome will be, but we've beeen on a trajectory of decline for some time, haven't we? There is no apparent way off it. When did severe austerity become Armageddon anyway?

 

[Carousel]

Don't quibble. It makes you look schizo.

 

[LLETSA]

Don't quibble. It makes you look schizo.

Schizo? I'm not the one who brings on sock puppets to support his arguments.

 

[Carousel]

Have you read Stanghellini and Ballerini's "Values in Persons with Schizophrenia"? It’s fascinating. I’m sure material such as that informs policy design to a greater extent than the statistical methods used during the 70’s and 80’s.