tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post3399479073380791855..comments2024-01-30T07:41:20.885+00:00Comments on Broken Barnet: New boy on the block: 'Brian Coleman' joins the Barnet blogosphereMrs Angryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-4283723622796753582012-09-02T12:05:39.966+01:002012-09-02T12:05:39.966+01:00I see. So perhaps the key to solving unemployment ...I see. So perhaps the key to solving unemployment is less productivity: workers encouraged to put their feet up every ten minutes. Yes: that makes sense. <br /><br />Think I may drop the old audit thing & go into economics.Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-29130962504709786092012-09-01T20:45:20.854+01:002012-09-01T20:45:20.854+01:00I'm told Britain essentially still has (perhap...I'm told Britain essentially still has (perhaps ignoring recession) roughly the same industrial output in real money terms that it had in the 1980s. But it employs vastly fewer people in industry, because productivity, and capital employed per worker, has gone up so much.<br /><br /><i>(Any experts?)</i><br /><br />There is nothing wrong with being a service economy in principle. London is one of the creative capitals of the world, and we are now possibly the world's best sporting venue, as another strand to our economy.<br /><br />We have contributed to world comedy as well, with Boris.<br /><br />The trouble with being a financial services capital, though, is that not only is much of the activity of no social value whatsoever (not my quote, of course) but it destroys the lives of millions of other people when it goes wrong.baarnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12301292285255035403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-91133576699643095422012-09-01T19:05:23.462+01:002012-09-01T19:05:23.462+01:00hmm, Baarnett: Cottonopolis & all that.Interes...hmm, Baarnett: Cottonopolis & all that.Interesting subject, especially if you have been to Manchester & read about the nineteenth century history of the place, or studied the history of the mills in Lancashire ... and of course Gandhi visited the area in the thirties ... the truth is that the industrial prosperity that we now look back on with such nostalgia is rooted in the Empire, and its aftermath, and what a shame that we have, thanks to M.Thatcher & her chums, thrown away our industrial strength, built on such foundations, on what? An ideological fantasy that never drew breath.Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-33575303864270832052012-09-01T18:30:20.064+01:002012-09-01T18:30:20.064+01:00Whatever the virtues of his political philosophy i...Whatever the virtues of his political philosophy in general, Boyson neglected a little history, and also was favoured by fortunate timing in his analysis.<br /><br />First of all, Britian had needed to systematically destroy India's indigenous cotton industry, causing great poverty, in order to start and expand its own.<br /><br />And when post-war increased wages for British workers, and the inability or unwillingness to invest, threatened our cotton industry with collapse on world markets, the companies brought in lower-cost Indian subcontinent labour in the 1950s. <br /><br />The industry still collapsed, but only after Boyson had drawn his conclusions.<br />baarnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12301292285255035403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-91849579146127056332012-09-01T16:52:27.461+01:002012-09-01T16:52:27.461+01:00DCMD: and here was me, thinking you might be behin...DCMD: and here was me, thinking you might be behind a spoof blog ... but how funny it is that we should all be arguing about whether or not it is genuinely by the old fool and the fact that it is so hard to tell where Brian Coleman crosses the line into parody ... I think it is him because I recognise certain traits of his idiosyncratic punctuation, and I doubt that anyone could be bothered to fake those! <br /><br />Baarnett, yes: it's a bloody long way from Victorian liberal economics and moral growth for all men to One Barnet and a parasitic culture of private sector exploitation of public services,isn't it? Not sure either Cobden or Boyson would approve of the self serving Tories in Barnet, and even Brian is said to be less than enthusiastic about the One Barnet free for all. <br /><br />Hmm. Doesn't liek One Barnet, or the Olympics: likes blogging.<br /><br />Brian: see, we are made for each other ... <br /><br />Who needs Match.com?<br /><br />Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-31504464913975365062012-09-01T16:18:19.546+01:002012-09-01T16:18:19.546+01:00DCMD has been biting his lip for some time, but wi...<i>DCMD</i> has been biting his lip for some time, but will not countenance any criticism of Rhodes Boyson who was a very fine man and politician. The Conservative Party needs more MPs like him, and fewer of the wishy-washy vacuous twerps like Cameron and Osborne, if it is to ever get this country out of the hole your socialist chums got us into.<br /><br />As for Brian Coleman’s blog - if it is genuinely him - well bloody good job too. You swivel-eyed trots have had it all your own way in the blogosphere for far too long.<br />Don't Call Me Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13602899129846028170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-49779128713746739942012-09-01T15:34:52.079+01:002012-09-01T15:34:52.079+01:00ociallyt Boyson also said:
"My own move to C...ociallyt Boyson also said:<br /><br />"My own move to Conservative party membership arose from the effect of my research into the cotton industry and the Manchester school of liberal economic philosophy. Here was a body of men who believed that a free enterprise economy was not only efficient but brought moral growth to all men. The employer risked his capital on his judgement and must care for his workers as part of his stock in trade, and the workers would be enabled to become prosperous and through their own industry, thrift and moral courage could establish their own business enterprises and their personal independence to the advantage of themselves, their families and society. Cobden had a moral view of society and believed that free enterprise would not only bring prosperity but social harmony at home and peace abroad within a system of universal free trade."baarnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12301292285255035403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-2153416803115187942012-09-01T10:53:08.139+01:002012-09-01T10:53:08.139+01:00I am lost for words Mrs A and not in admiration of...I am lost for words Mrs A and not in admiration of Brian's first effort. To be fair, one's first blog is not usually a masterpiece (except yours of course which I will now go and read again to help me with me efforts) and so we really will have to wait until his second.<br /><br />In the meantime though he thinks I am an idiot I am going to send Brian an email to check if he is the author of the new blog. What an idiot I must be. Mr Mustardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12522242686839965655noreply@blogger.com