Quote of the Day
"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."
Professor Milton Friedman, in Good Reads
Professor Milton Friedman, in Good Reads
Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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Its a temporary measure issued by William Pitt the Younger in his budget of December 1798 and introduced in 1799, to pay for weapons and equipment in preparation for the Napoleonic Wars.
Still is a "temporary tax" and so it has to be renewed on April 5th each and every year.
Maggie had taken the cabinet to lunch
WAITER: Are you ready to order
MAGGIE: I will have the British steak
WAITER: Very good, sir. And the vegetables?
MAGGIE: They will have the same as me.
Think i was too young for that particular episode the first time, but found it funny when i did see it.
Watching the news reports of Mrs T's funeral, seems to have went quite well. Though I saw some people chanting in opposition "what a waste of money". I did wonder to myself if the irony is lost on them, one of the first people to agree with them would have been the Iron Lady herself.
Following the mess she inherited she done her upmost to stop wasting public money, she saved the country from destruction (of a financial nature).
Even following her death i could have imagined her saying (about those celebrating, "They have been poisoned by socialism, they don't know any better"