this is the end game when socialists are taken seriously

believe it or not...
the ludicrous margaret becket has been promoted to replace the
     ludicrous man of straw....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=LJXMSQOB5QBDPQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/opinion/2006/05/11/do1101.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2006/05/11/ixopinion.html
"If you claim a subsidy for your orchard (as you may), you have to prove
that your trees are 10 metres apart and that the trunks are one metre in
circumference; and if you have more than 50 trees a hectare, you've got to
prove to the inspector that the bases of the trees have previously been
nibbled by sheep. 

You can grow cucumbers, cabbages and cauliflowers, but not strawberries or
mint! 

Think of the new legions of bureaucrats being created, who will have to
check whether or not you are running your subsidised nudist colony for
more than 28 days. 

Forty thousand new dependents have been created! Untold acres are now
under new and pointless subsidy! And they call this reform? No wonder
Margaret Beckett was promoted."
.....
.....


meanwhile kaletsky tells us that brown the clown could 'triumph'
    if the straw man, fatty clarke or brown the clown act even more
    stupidly than they did last week...or the week before...or the week
    before that....
you see, a great problem with socialism is you need to be rather dull to
    espouse it....so finding real talent available in a socialist group is
    a pretty forlorn task...as the great keynes said

    "Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of
     Opinion - how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised
     so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and,
     through them, the events of history." (1926)


now i expect most of you don't understand mister kaletsky very well....
     mister kaletsky is what i call a neo-keynsian or better...a
     pseudo-keynsian...
for a cult socialist he is remarkably bright.....
he can actually do the sums that keynes developed....

the only trouble is he is no keynes and he doesn't really *understand*
    keynes....this makes his articles an interesting mixture of sense and
    voodoo....
it is a good exercise to see if you can spot the difference!


there are many writers like kaletsky....a common pattern especially among
    some cultists and religious enthusiasts....they tend to write several
    paragraphs of quite interesting real world facts.....
and then suddenly, without due warning, as you get towards the end of the
    article...suddenly god appears for no apparent reason...or a tirade on
    ritual state murder....or a rant on the awful state of the young
    nowadays...

these articles are ideal fodder for teaching people to read and analyse
    critically...
thence i have added an education group to the distribution

now to this week's kaletsky gem....

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2174741,00.html
"But the key lesson of history for Mr Brown concerns the steps he must
take to avoid the long-term fate of John Major: to do this he must
immediately ditch the Blairite policies most responsible for the present
Government’s demise. Mr Blair’s equivalent of poll tax may be legislation
on ID cards or hospital reforms, but the policy at the heart of Mr Blair’s
failure - the equivalent of the rows and misjudgments over ERM membership
under Margaret Thatcher and then under John Major - is Mr Blair’s
relationship with the Bush Administration and his policy on Iraq. 

By pulling out of Iraq and breaking publicly with the Bush Administration
(which by then will itself be in terminal decline), Mr Brown could win
himself so much credit with the Labour Party and the affluent middle
classes that he could do almost anything else he might choose with the
health service, taxes, pensions or schools. Mr Major’s fate was sealed by
the way he stuck to a policy that was doomed to failure - membership of
the ERM. 

If Mr Brown heeds the rhymes of history, he will ditch the foreign policy
that has been responsible for Mr Blair’s demise. If he does this, he could
yet turn a funeral dirge into a song of triumph."



never mind nearly every politician who backed the freeing of irak then
     went on to get re-elected....whereas those who tried to freeload on
    the coalition went tits up....
i note the major party in the uk (the falsely named lib dems) which
    overwhelmingly backed the appeasement of madsam are even now 
    sinking in the polls despite the little local difficulties at the
    centre of the uk government....

socialists never ever learn....
you see, it's the religion that counts...the real world is an irrelevant
     nuisance!


related item
http://www.abelard.org/briefings/socialist_religion.htm

regards...

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