tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88198838171098687162009-11-08T05:01:44.576ZVoyage of DiscoveryMy name's Dan Vevers and welcome to my blog, a journey of political discovery - for me rather than anyone reading. As I try to articulate my political opinions, or maybe just rant on for therapy's sake, you will either discover that you think I'm a twit, or not. Welcome to the Voyage.Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.comBlogger243125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-76364059396138389602009-05-24T15:54:00.002+01:002009-05-24T16:06:28.427+01:00The Good GuysAs far as MP's expenses go, it is very easy to fall into the toxic, negative viewpoint, that "they're all it" - they're all corrupt bastards with their snouts in the trough.But for all of us railing against the lack of integrity in our Parliament, it is important to maintain a level of honesty ourselves, and appreciate and acknowledge that there is a whole host of MPs who are doing the best they Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-29643893848469096652009-05-22T13:51:00.002+01:002009-05-22T13:59:55.102+01:00Funff Jahre Plan!Via Diary of a Geek in Oxfordshire, I found this rather entertaining:"The First Five-Year Plan will focus on stabilising Britain for the future, and is to include the following key points:The immediate removal of Sterling from all Exchange mechanisms;The immediate and complete nationalisation of all private enterprise, to reduce and eventually eliminate Government debt;The elimination of Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-23691413860002643072009-05-22T13:34:00.003+01:002009-05-22T13:51:13.649+01:00Peter Schiff talks engagingly about the stock market, bonds, and the dollar:H/T Lew RockwellDan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-3056188805051116532009-05-22T13:22:00.003+01:002009-05-22T13:34:14.900+01:00Obama vs Cheney - THE BIG ONEOur American cousins seem to have gone a bit doolally over the supposed massive showdown between Barack Obama and former Lord of the Sith Dick Cheney, as they supposedly battle it out by each doing speeches on national security within minutes of the other.The gist of Darth Cheney's speech was more or less:"We need to be able to torture and send to permanent, illegal detention facilities anyone Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-74402513232220012122009-05-20T19:08:00.004+01:002009-05-20T19:33:29.928+01:00Nick Griffin is horrendously uglyI can't be bothered analysing what a disgusting, illiberal, socialist, fascist, racist, fucking Nazi society of plebs, paedophiles and slimy wankers that make up the team behind the BNP are - I may get into that another day, but there's a good chance that when I do it will be the most abusively foul-mouthed, crude post this blog has ever seen, because there aren't words to describe how much I Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-66014569563322305912009-05-19T14:51:00.002+01:002009-05-19T15:00:06.000+01:00Goodbye, MickAs readers even remotely aware of my political persuasions can probably guess, I'm not remotely inclined to our Speaker Michael Martin, and am in no way sad to see him go.That said, watching his statement on the box, I couldn't help but feel a bit sorry for our Mick. I do understand the implicit difficulties in having a Speaker who can't actually really Speak, but at the same time, why is one manDan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-46983700027959329622009-05-14T01:43:00.002+01:002009-05-14T01:51:55.919+01:00Dan is Uncontainably and Unnecessarily ExcitedIt's the LOST season finale tonight! I'm so ridiculously excited that I am going to watch it live, streamed in from the US, beginning at 2am and continuing until 4.I don't usually talk about much else besides current affairs here, but I thought that, in light of my effervescing excitement at this televisual prospect, which is, as I write, a paltry fifteen minutes away, I would share it with you, Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-26246955753907547732009-05-14T01:02:00.008+01:002009-05-14T01:27:28.667+01:00So deflation was a load of old cods-bollocks? Yes siree.The real risk, like I've always said, is inflationary depression - like stagflation, but really bad. But until the mainstream politicos and economic "experts" get their act together, the rest of us can sit back and try and glean some sort of dark amusement from the continuing disprovals of mainstream economic theories, as the economy slowly Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-88942421210327752532009-05-14T00:38:00.002+01:002009-05-14T00:55:25.361+01:00Good on the French!As a French student, who will be going there as part of my degree in not long over a year's time, it is good to learn that, despite the fact that their President is a narcissistic moron, they sometimes come up trumps, as I see via Guido:"France has just cut booze and restaurant sales tax from 19.6% to to 5.5%. Booze taxes are already reasonable in France, this makes going out even more reasonableDan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-32923287499863163492009-05-13T23:56:00.003+01:002009-05-14T00:38:10.221+01:00Expenses Expenses ExpensesYou may have (though probably not) noticed a pointed quietness from yours truly on the issue of MP's expenses. Believe me - this is not because I have any reservations about calling out the trough-snuffling MPs for what they are: corrupt, and unfit for public office.I'm just immune to caring about it. I really just - don't - give - a monkey's. And admittedly, this is probably A Bad Thing.But it Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-53098147886611639972009-05-06T17:15:00.002+01:002009-05-06T17:33:13.601+01:00The Guilty PartyMark Steel is on rather good form in today's Independent, on the New Labour car-crash, and their panicked attempts to "re-engage" with us:"It's as if a builder had a discussion with you that went: "I have to accept that the bond between us has been fractured in these difficult times, which is why I'd like this opportunity to reflect on the many positive aspects of our work." "You blew Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-65972625935699111732009-05-06T16:24:00.003+01:002009-05-06T16:28:13.349+01:00Via Dan Hannan, the Centre for European Reform has released a report which summarises the state of our State as such:"Britain will have Scandinavian levels of taxation and American levels of public services and social welfare." Well if that doesn't just knock the smile off your face, eh?Best of both worlds.Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-26912839617490119852009-05-06T15:24:00.004+01:002009-05-06T15:54:22.964+01:00He's UnbelievableI'm just watchinga clip from today's PMQ's, where David Cameron is asking the Gorgon about thee Hazel Blears "Youtube if you want to" article, and why she is still in the Cabinet.Now, I can understand why the Gorgon does not fancy the idea of answering this question - but it is a legitimate question nonetheless. He's a friggin politician - he doesn't have to answer it truthfully or concisely; in Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-63028881533187310912009-05-06T14:29:00.002+01:002009-05-06T14:36:26.147+01:00People of Manchester ...Tell the government to b*gger off with their ID friggin cards, by not volunteering for one.If they really want us to have ID cards then they can impose them on us by force, and end this sad facade that, in the end, we have any say in the matter. I, for one, will burn mine and piss in its ashes.Tell them where to go, Manchester.I suppose the title of this post should really be British Nationals ofDan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-53152497652933897722009-05-06T14:18:00.002+01:002009-05-06T14:25:57.657+01:00Ian Dalton, Swinebuster #1Thank God they've brought in a Swine Flu Tsar, Ian Dalton, to deal with this ever-deepening threat to all of humanity:"The appointment came as the number of UK cases of the H1N1 virus reached 28."AAAARRRGH, 28? That's nearly one two-millionth of the population! We need a serious Tsar for serious Swine Flu."Ian Dalton, currently chief executive of NHS North East, will become national director forDan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-40174841605434745872009-05-06T12:56:00.006+01:002009-05-06T13:47:50.410+01:00History RepeatingAnyone who reads this blog regularly will know of my derision for Keynesians, and that I find the fact that the theories they hold so dear to are currently in prominence throughout the world's corridors of power deeply disturbing.I've said this before and I'll say it again - history proves you can't spend your way out of a deep recession/depression. And reinflation may work in a shallower Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-81207410009112469072009-05-05T20:56:00.003+01:002009-05-05T21:13:30.135+01:00What makes you "right" to lead, Gordon?Via DK, I see our Home Secretary is doing her clenched-teeth best to stand behind the Gorgon:"Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has become the latest cabinet minister to come to Gordon Brown's defence, amid continuing speculation about his leadership.She said he was "right" for the country..."Nothing bugs me more than these sort of inane comments. We are supposed to live in a democracy - therefore the Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-9606802141371505692009-04-30T23:35:00.002+01:002009-05-01T00:03:35.248+01:00Er, chill out...Not one to foment panic, the World Health Organisation has tried to gently reassure us all that:"ALL OF HUMANITY IS UNDER THREAT!!!!!!!"Now it would be terribly embarrassing for me to downplay the risks of swine flu and then die from it in the coming months along with a fifth of the world's population, but come on, really ... is there any need for this alarmism when at present, in eleven Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-41702426607427859842009-04-27T21:46:00.027+01:002009-04-27T23:26:43.895+01:00Come one, come all, ye activists and petitioners...... let's get the Gorgon outta there! If you need to be reminded why Gordon Brown and his band of Nu-Labour swine should have been removed from office yesterday, allow me to sum up:Iraq: lies lies lies, and a million Iraqis dead - the UK's involvement bankrolled by the Gorgon. Civil liberties and personal privacy: think of 42 days; of complicity in US torture; think of ID cards and expansive Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-63919196172576207832009-04-27T18:47:00.006+01:002009-04-27T21:41:03.158+01:00No First StrikeCNN correspondent Walter Rodgers has written an excellent article regarding the dangerous counterproductivity of potential airstrikes against Iran's nuclear facilities:"Israel has acted unilaterally to squash a perceived nuclear threat before. In 1981, Prime Minister Menachem Begin sent fighter jets to knock out Iraq's "Osirak" nuclear reactor. Israel claimed that Saddam Hussein was on the verge Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-72935002122968289172009-04-22T20:00:00.003+01:002009-04-22T22:19:57.058+01:00Nightmare BudgetThe little gloss that remained on the New Labour project was stripped away by today's budget. I've always thought Alistair Darling looked like a seagull, and as seagulls are prone to doing, today he has shat all over us.Apparently, gambling on rapid economic recovery by 2010, he has hiked up taxes on fuel, booze, fags, and upped income tax for high earners to 50%.The reality: the government Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-63164423650314568182009-04-21T02:02:00.003+01:002009-04-21T02:46:18.743+01:00The AGW Consensus: CrumblingFresh climate scepticism is afoot across the globe, from distinguished scientists to prominent public figures. Let's go through some of them them.Freeman Dyson, professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, on climate computer models: "I have studied the climate models and I know what they can do. The models solve the equations of fluid dynamics, and they do a very good Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-76513080203233834152009-04-21T00:00:00.001+01:002009-04-21T00:03:57.913+01:00£15 billion in spending cutsThat's it, Chancellor?Far, far too little; far, far, far too late.Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-45349117361359742612009-04-20T23:42:00.002+01:002009-04-20T23:53:41.687+01:00Who believes this?Loud YAAAAWWWWWNNN.George Osborne: NO MORE SMEARS! : -"AN INCOMING Conservative government would remove the sleaze culture from Downing Street left by the e-mail scandal involving a prime ministerial aide, shadow chancellor George Osborne vowed yesterday."Yadda yadda yadda, bla bla bla.I'm genuinely curious: does anyone, a single person on this planet, seriously believe that the sleaze culture Dan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819883817109868716.post-41319571467517154212009-04-20T23:06:00.004+01:002009-04-20T23:23:08.764+01:00LPUK News The Libertarian Party UK has officially launched its South East branch.I applaud the hard work of our South East lot and wish Richard Williams, Jenny Scott-Thompson and Rob Waller the best of luck.We're looking for candidates for local elections and PPCs for the General Election when it comes - if it sounds like something you'd like to do, e-mail us at contact@lpuk.org. Or you can donate here.AsDan Vevershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438444302662389106noreply@blogger.com0