Great podcast chaps. Very interesting views and comments. We do have free speech. But we are guilty of abusing that privilege. Yes, I agree it should be a stated right to speak freely and without prosecution. But we know that we can’t have that right. There is always a balance between that privilege and right against the constant pushing of hatred and adverse unwanted and corrosive speech. I recently replied to an earlier IEA podcast, in which I reminded you that, the recent in line bill was in response to children getting pushed into suicide or accessing pornography and I explained for those reasons alone we must protect our children. That is not overreach. Hateful and harmful tweets or said in any publication are subject to rules, regulations and laws. Our society is not free. We are bound by collective civil and reasonable actions that are acceptable. Unacceptable association of any outlawed terrorist movement must be in those crosshairs of acceptability. The free right to speech is and must be tempered. Otherwise anarchy will follow. I don’t think we have reached the top dead centre of the ‘Laffer Curve’ on overreach just yet. Further movement towards that may be ahead. But to whip up and use such a bill that protects our children should never be used as an example of overreach. However, I don’t think you are seeing beyond the obvious here in relation to the arrest of that comedian. I think it’s much more nuanced than the obvious. I have come to learn that when an argument kicks off and words are exchanged, the words being shouted are not what has caused the argument. The words are expressing something obvious, but the real reasons are not so obvious. For whatever reason, they can’t be said or font want to be said, so the argument ensues for the wrong reason. You have to find the hidden underlying cause and not the symptom. So on first glance this is an atrocious waste of time and resources. But the Police are trying , in my view, to be political. I can remember seeing PM May going as Home Secretary to the Police union conference and castigated them for poor results. Silence was deafening . And ever since then I have noticed this style of overkill to highlight the stupidity of legislation. In a way only the Police can. Their problems as are ours is all due to UNDERFUNDING! But the Police can’t be political. They have to follow the law as laid down. So I see a sort of ‘work to rule’. To highlight the craziness of having to chase tweets rather than real villains. So they take pride in making the politicians look embarrassed and having to justify their own laid laws. So yes, for a comedian and celebrity they will send 5 armed officers to arrest him off the plane. I’m sure it’s meant to be. Yes, the Police can individually do the worst of crimes. But collectively time and time again this is for show. This is meant. It’s planned and authorised. You can’t be that naive to think the orders weren’t given from high up. This has happened before. It’s a political statement by making a law look stupid. This brings me nearly to the underfunding we have all had to put up with. Thatcher, took us from a powerful oil gas nuclear and coal economy and one with heavy industry to a device and finance economy of pen-pushers. She took out all the industry’s that led to the troubles of the seventies. By selling off or closing or underfunding all the problem industry causing her headaches to run. And in so doing sold off all our family silver. Wrongly thinking that private sector running will end the strife and be well run. Well here we are. No power stations, water company’s taking money with no investment. Sky high gas and electric prices and a government underfunded. It’s been a total disaster. We have never had it good! When you think it can’t get worse, it does. When it does you think it wasn’t so bad before, but it was! And everyone is deluded. To think 25 years of borrowing our own money back with services that have never been properly funded we are at breaking point. And I think we are at a crossroads. Do we have a small state with no services and poor hospitals and awful services or do we want world class world leading services with high care and wages? Because a small state cares not. It won’t afford it. Only a big state can give us everything. You get what you pay for. Are you a Thatcher who wants to run the country without running anything and paying for nothing? If do you want a society that can afford anything and everything? That’s what both choices give you. Small state small taxes small help small obligation. Or big state, paid for with one tax every help and real care? We can have either or? But to keep suggesting we have really funded anything properly makes no sense to me. We may have increased budgets on day the nhs but, in reality we have never funded it properly. In fact we haven’t funded anything properly. Wherever you look, it’s successive governments of all colour and wing that have presided over an underfunded society. To expect people to work twice as hard for half the price is ridiculous. Look around you! Hospitals crumbling, roads that we can’t even fill the potholes. Schools with RAC Crumbling, no planes on our carriers no power stations, reservoirs and a depleting army. And what are we world leaders in? Ignorance! That’s what. We ignore the bloody obvious. Nearly all our money isn’t in our economy from which we pay tax! It’s not being used for our benefit. I’m all for people earning stupid sums of money. If 60,000 people want to watch footballers much a ball and oat £100 each, fine! But unless that money comes back around again the whole system shudders under the strain of underfunding. What planet are they all on? If they allow nearly all our money to be held outside our daily economy how do they expect our economy to provide sufficient revenue to afford the taxes we need to break even, let alone properly fund the police, pensions the army the navy the air force, power stations roads, rail, water, services of an nature we need!? Part of our underfunded government is Councils. Which is a Segway to your other headache , planning! Councils have been underfunded. So they look for any old way to get money. Part of this is planning. I’m sure they avoid being part of any application so they can say no! Saying no means more work for them and more money in application. They draw it out to give them jobs and power. And you are right, they say no because they can and not because they should. Of course they should be an active part to the application from the start. Saying what can be done not wait to decline it. Make sure they work with the applicant to make it work! It’s common sense isn’t it? Don’t let them fail anything, make all pass!! But it’s another symptom of societal underfunding. We have to take the path to making the tax cover our needs. Not cut the services to what we think we can only afford. We’ve not been borrowing to make our lives better. We’ve been borrowing just to allow the mega rich hang on to our money for longer! It’s madness. We can now make the framework to insist money is spent not held onto. I’ve written about this many times. We can make all or most of the money be spent back by using digital money. Making us all richer including the rich! It’s a no brainer! Stop looking in the wrong direction. Look at where the money is when it’s not in our daily economy. It’s said that there is £19 trillion pounds out there in the aether. We get tax income if done £1.1 trillion pounds. Thats 5% or so of our possible money. Just 5% of all our money is tax income. That tells me, that only a small part of our money is in the tax paying system. We are trying to run a nation on just 5% of tax revenue. It’s so bloody simple guys. Get all that money moving and we’ll all be rich!
Great podcast chaps. Very interesting views and comments. We do have free speech. But we are guilty of abusing that privilege. Yes, I agree it should be a stated right to speak freely and without prosecution. But we know that we can’t have that right. There is always a balance between that privilege and right against the constant pushing of hatred and adverse unwanted and corrosive speech. I recently replied to an earlier IEA podcast, in which I reminded you that, the recent in line bill was in response to children getting pushed into suicide or accessing pornography and I explained for those reasons alone we must protect our children. That is not overreach. Hateful and harmful tweets or said in any publication are subject to rules, regulations and laws. Our society is not free. We are bound by collective civil and reasonable actions that are acceptable. Unacceptable association of any outlawed terrorist movement must be in those crosshairs of acceptability. The free right to speech is and must be tempered. Otherwise anarchy will follow. I don’t think we have reached the top dead centre of the ‘Laffer Curve’ on overreach just yet. Further movement towards that may be ahead. But to whip up and use such a bill that protects our children should never be used as an example of overreach. However, I don’t think you are seeing beyond the obvious here in relation to the arrest of that comedian. I think it’s much more nuanced than the obvious. I have come to learn that when an argument kicks off and words are exchanged, the words being shouted are not what has caused the argument. The words are expressing something obvious, but the real reasons are not so obvious. For whatever reason, they can’t be said or font want to be said, so the argument ensues for the wrong reason. You have to find the hidden underlying cause and not the symptom. So on first glance this is an atrocious waste of time and resources. But the Police are trying , in my view, to be political. I can remember seeing PM May going as Home Secretary to the Police union conference and castigated them for poor results. Silence was deafening . And ever since then I have noticed this style of overkill to highlight the stupidity of legislation. In a way only the Police can. Their problems as are ours is all due to UNDERFUNDING! But the Police can’t be political. They have to follow the law as laid down. So I see a sort of ‘work to rule’. To highlight the craziness of having to chase tweets rather than real villains. So they take pride in making the politicians look embarrassed and having to justify their own laid laws. So yes, for a comedian and celebrity they will send 5 armed officers to arrest him off the plane. I’m sure it’s meant to be. Yes, the Police can individually do the worst of crimes. But collectively time and time again this is for show. This is meant. It’s planned and authorised. You can’t be that naive to think the orders weren’t given from high up. This has happened before. It’s a political statement by making a law look stupid. This brings me nearly to the underfunding we have all had to put up with. Thatcher, took us from a powerful oil gas nuclear and coal economy and one with heavy industry to a device and finance economy of pen-pushers. She took out all the industry’s that led to the troubles of the seventies. By selling off or closing or underfunding all the problem industry causing her headaches to run. And in so doing sold off all our family silver. Wrongly thinking that private sector running will end the strife and be well run. Well here we are. No power stations, water company’s taking money with no investment. Sky high gas and electric prices and a government underfunded. It’s been a total disaster. We have never had it good! When you think it can’t get worse, it does. When it does you think it wasn’t so bad before, but it was! And everyone is deluded. To think 25 years of borrowing our own money back with services that have never been properly funded we are at breaking point. And I think we are at a crossroads. Do we have a small state with no services and poor hospitals and awful services or do we want world class world leading services with high care and wages? Because a small state cares not. It won’t afford it. Only a big state can give us everything. You get what you pay for. Are you a Thatcher who wants to run the country without running anything and paying for nothing? If do you want a society that can afford anything and everything? That’s what both choices give you. Small state small taxes small help small obligation. Or big state, paid for with one tax every help and real care? We can have either or? But to keep suggesting we have really funded anything properly makes no sense to me. We may have increased budgets on day the nhs but, in reality we have never funded it properly. In fact we haven’t funded anything properly. Wherever you look, it’s successive governments of all colour and wing that have presided over an underfunded society. To expect people to work twice as hard for half the price is ridiculous. Look around you! Hospitals crumbling, roads that we can’t even fill the potholes. Schools with RAC Crumbling, no planes on our carriers no power stations, reservoirs and a depleting army. And what are we world leaders in? Ignorance! That’s what. We ignore the bloody obvious. Nearly all our money isn’t in our economy from which we pay tax! It’s not being used for our benefit. I’m all for people earning stupid sums of money. If 60,000 people want to watch footballers much a ball and oat £100 each, fine! But unless that money comes back around again the whole system shudders under the strain of underfunding. What planet are they all on? If they allow nearly all our money to be held outside our daily economy how do they expect our economy to provide sufficient revenue to afford the taxes we need to break even, let alone properly fund the police, pensions the army the navy the air force, power stations roads, rail, water, services of an nature we need!? Part of our underfunded government is Councils. Which is a Segway to your other headache , planning! Councils have been underfunded. So they look for any old way to get money. Part of this is planning. I’m sure they avoid being part of any application so they can say no! Saying no means more work for them and more money in application. They draw it out to give them jobs and power. And you are right, they say no because they can and not because they should. Of course they should be an active part to the application from the start. Saying what can be done not wait to decline it. Make sure they work with the applicant to make it work! It’s common sense isn’t it? Don’t let them fail anything, make all pass!! But it’s another symptom of societal underfunding. We have to take the path to making the tax cover our needs. Not cut the services to what we think we can only afford. We’ve not been borrowing to make our lives better. We’ve been borrowing just to allow the mega rich hang on to our money for longer! It’s madness. We can now make the framework to insist money is spent not held onto. I’ve written about this many times. We can make all or most of the money be spent back by using digital money. Making us all richer including the rich! It’s a no brainer! Stop looking in the wrong direction. Look at where the money is when it’s not in our daily economy. It’s said that there is £19 trillion pounds out there in the aether. We get tax income if done £1.1 trillion pounds. Thats 5% or so of our possible money. Just 5% of all our money is tax income. That tells me, that only a small part of our money is in the tax paying system. We are trying to run a nation on just 5% of tax revenue. It’s so bloody simple guys. Get all that money moving and we’ll all be rich!