tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post5326097111276550560..comments2024-03-27T06:56:10.255+00:00Comments on Broad Oak Magazine: Who ruins Britain?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-63679300358278230142009-04-11T22:26:00.000+01:002009-04-11T22:26:00.000+01:00Agree that I can't see much difference between the...Agree that I can't see much difference between the two.<BR/><BR/>Peston began very readably, and he does a good job of explaining the packaged mortgage mess, CDS etc - but golly he's a groupie for the rich and so very me-me-me with it. He can't decide whether to worship Green or condemn him.<BR/><BR/>Peston's cutesy half-profile pose on the cover suggests a narcissistic streak, and there's a look in his kindly eyes that reminds me of the devastating adjective used by Lytton Strachey of Thomas Arnold: "puzzled".Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09410040031410954403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-37272464603213798452009-04-11T21:41:00.000+01:002009-04-11T21:41:00.000+01:00The Nazis were not the "right", they are a differe...The Nazis were not the "right", they are a different version of the left.<BR/><BR/>The left comprises of two choices at its extremity :<BR/><BR/>1) Marxism<BR/>2) Fascism<BR/><BR/>They offer two opposing nationalist and monetarist policies but they share an underlying socialist root.<BR/><BR/>You read Peston's book! Good lord.Wolfiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05820269114208456064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-20185284121614171752009-04-09T15:49:00.000+01:002009-04-09T15:49:00.000+01:00Explain, please, Wolfie. Personally I think Britai...Explain, please, Wolfie. Personally I think Britain is more likely to head far Left than Fascist; and suffer either way.<BR/><BR/>I've just finished Peston's book, and while generally well-disposed towards private equity types, he ends by intimating at social upheaval if we continue to permit concentrations of wealth and power, the capture of the polity by the rich and the disenfranchisement and improverishment of "the many".<BR/><BR/>And now I'm catching straws in the blogowind on the lines of Karl was right.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09410040031410954403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-49509130586710688872009-04-07T12:01:00.000+01:002009-04-07T12:01:00.000+01:00Are we making a nation fit for Marxists?Or maybe j...<I>Are we making a nation fit for Marxists?</I><BR/><BR/>Or maybe just <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Green#Biography" REL="nofollow">fit for Nazis</A>?Wolfiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05820269114208456064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-86020511385604223252009-04-05T01:00:00.000+01:002009-04-05T01:00:00.000+01:00It's what I've been reading - the collapse will le...It's what I've been reading - the collapse will leave the rich much richer, and the rest of us dirt poor. However, as I've said many times, that collapse could well destroy technological civilization.Paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07952088638231881617noreply@blogger.com