An Excerpt from Chapter 7: Misleading Crap and an example from Gordon Brown

"So each pound of extra tax payable has already inhibited the division of labour, and thus reduced output by 67p, before the tax is received.  Even though government still receives its pound of flesh and spends it, the economy as a whole, including the tax-and-spend, has shrunk by 67p. (This excludes their 20% cut.) Similarly every pound of tax-relief produces a further 67p to the economy as a whole.  (These are my estimates; I suggest not incredible when one remembers that 100% total tax would lead to no division of labour at all!)

Please bear this in mind for all that follows.

The more that people catch on to this, the more desperate the politicos will get, which perhaps explains the fact that “misleading” gets closer and closer to out and out lying.  As politics gets bigger, so does its immorality and corruption." - From Chapter 7 of the book.

Gordon Brown gets plenty of coverage in my book, for his dodgy dossiers of statistics.  But at the 2006 conference I quoted him only once, and that was for his cheek (Chapter 5, Cheeky Crap).

“Let us remind the country that the NHS is our greatest achievement and I am proud that free at the point of use we can aspire to it being for all people the best and fairest insurance policy in the world”.

My retort (leave aside the grammar) was that we had been aspiring for over 50 years whilst the NHS slid down to one of the worst insurance policies in Europe.

This year, his speech of over 7,000 words provides enough crap for about three chapters, particularly Meaningless Crap, Misleading Crap, and Cheeky Crap.

A good example follows on from his Cheeky 2006 piece:

“They [the British People] know that when they have a medical emergency the NHS is there for them and at its best.  They tell me of their huge admiration for our doctors, our nurses, and our NHS staff….”

By this reckoning, Gordo, cancer is not an emergency, because survival rates are amongst the worst in Europe.  And in what sort of a Health Service would only a third of staff be happy to be treated in their own hospital – as was discovered by the Healthcare Commission only a couple of years ago.

More generally Gordon’s election speech was just a one-man advance auction of stolen goods* (Misleading Crap or worse).  Gifts from Santa are coming to the sick, carers, children, pensioners, couples (who I’m sure will love the promised “social housing”).   Who is left?   We all know who – taxpayers; the word tax is used only once in the speech (as is Iraq) whereas “I want” makes a dozen appearances.

Nice one, Gordo.

* From H L Mencken;  Elections are advance auctions of stolen goods