How Labour will make you worse off
Let’s start with an irrefutable FACT: Labour governments have always trashed the British economy. From Attlee’s sterling crisis through Wilson’s devaluation and Brown’s huge 7% recession. And they always will […]
Economics
UK is incredibly lucky to have the bankers
I wrote back in 2011 that the banks are brilliant. but very few people realise or understand this because of the tirade of abuse banks receive from the left, from […]
Africa coming good?
The countries of Africa, especially the sub Saharan bit, have a terrible history. Many of them were worse off after independence than they had been under their colonial masters. Corruption […]
Deregulation. Thatcher = good. Brown = bad
First of all it might be good if people understood what deregulation is. Markets require certain conditions to work properly, for instance if there is only one supplier (as in […]
Attlee, a disaster for Britain
I have already, in an earlier article, explained how Attlee continued wartime rationing for more than 6 years after WW2 ended, starving the British people. Not only that, he made […]
Why we like big corporations
Firstly it is important to understand that big corporations are actually quite rare in the real world. According to the FSB: “There were an estimated 5.2 million businesses in the […]
How Attlee starved the British people
We all know that Gordon Brown and Ed Balls are economically inept and couldn’t organise a drinks party in a brewery. But this trait is true of all Labour governments, […]
There is no poverty in Britain
Socialists always punish successful people and reward unsuccessful people. They call this social justice. Which is a huge lie because it is anything but just. And it is a big […]
TTIP is coming. And you will love it
Firstly a primer for socialists, who have no understanding of economics: Free trade and globalisation are incredibly good, they drive down prices, increase economic activity, alleviate poverty, decrease unemployment, increase […]
More proof, Labour don’t understand economics
As a pre election bribe Ed Miliband has promised to increase the amount of paternal birth leave from 2 weeks to 4 weeks. Let’s look how much this will cost […]
Zero hours = brilliant
Labour laws in Britain are vastly too strict and rigid, they were put together at a time when trade unions had excessive power which they abused on an immense scale, […]
Austerity = Labour lie
Gordon Brown’s recession (his team, including Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, must take some of the blame) created the deepest UK recession since the war. Manufacturing output declined 7% by the end […]