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**happyman** · 11-02-2006, 06:45 PM

I'd be interested to hear from our American friends how they'd react to all these state regulations.

I saw Stryker McGuire, London bureau chief for Newsweek talking about this very issue on TV today. Americans would never countenance this kind of (sinister) thing he said.

He had an interesting point on the swingeing "environmental" taxes threatened by Labour saying that the American way is not to tax their way out of a problem, rather find a real solution and that Americans would not in any case,accept taxes. The intelectual banckruptcy of the British polititcal classes in which the solution to any problem is to apply a tax contrasts sharply with that of the US.

A quote by another distinguished American journalist who lived in similar times also comes to mind:- "We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." Edward R. Murrow

Don't waste your time debating with Nick. One of the depressing things about the English (and I exclude the Scots, Irish and Welsh from this statement) and one of the reasons I no longer have any qulams about quitting this Sceptred Isle is their bovine like acceptance of what is going on in this country. The great master G. Orwell had the Nick-Taylors of this world summed up perfectly when he wrote in his novel 1984:-

"Parsons was Winston's fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms—one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the Party depended."

'nuff said.

11-02-2006, 06:45 PM	#15
happyman Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 423 Senior Member	I'd be interested to hear from our American friends how they'd react to all these state regulations. I saw Stryker McGuire, London bureau chief for Newsweek talking about this very issue on TV today. Americans would never countenance this kind of (sinister) thing he said. He had an interesting point on the swingeing "environmental" taxes threatened by Labour saying that the American way is not to tax their way out of a problem, rather find a real solution and that Americans would not in any case,accept taxes. The intelectual banckruptcy of the British polititcal classes in which the solution to any problem is to apply a tax contrasts sharply with that of the US. A quote by another distinguished American journalist who lived in similar times also comes to mind:- "We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." Edward R. Murrow Don't waste your time debating with Nick. One of the depressing things about the English (and I exclude the Scots, Irish and Welsh from this statement) and one of the reasons I no longer have any qulams about quitting this Sceptred Isle is their bovine like acceptance of what is going on in this country. The great master G. Orwell had the Nick-Taylors of this world summed up perfectly when he wrote in his novel 1984:- "Parsons was Winston's fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms—one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the Party depended." 'nuff said.
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