Some, though, will no doubt say I was too robust with some commentators along the way. So, do I regret that? No, I don’t. Why not? Because without exception, they outed themselves as far-right supporters of what might be called the Worstall (search Tim Worstall if you want to find out more, but I wouldn’t recommend it as an edifying task) view of this blog after a comment or two, as such people almost invariably do. The robustness was appropriate in that case.
He’s rude to his own commenters because me. So there.
Robust? From his appearance on GB News the other week he’s downright rude and obnoxious.
“Because without exception, they outed themselves as far-right supporters of what might be called the Worstall ”
If this is true, then going by the number of people he’s blocked, Tim has enough supporters to be the next PM.
I’m going to have to refer to our host now on as The Worstall.
Indicative that he can’t even bring himself to write Tim’s full name. The first rule of a dictatorship is to dehumanise your opponents, makes it easier to take them out and shoot them.
I hesitate to associate Murphy with something as iconic as Dad’s Army but he comes across like the U Boat captain in the episode ‘The Deadly Attachment’
‘Your name will also go on ze list’
Good plug for you
if you could encourage spud to regularly say things like, “if you’ve realised I’m talking shite go to The Worstall where you will get stuff that makes sense”
I’d get the domain locked in ASAP!
Beware Tim
He’s approaching ‘Like Nastaya’ or Ryan’s World’ levels of popularity on YouTube
He has a message for us though
And after all that, do I regret suggesting that the City conspired to deliver what Musk wants, which is a crisis for Labour? No, I don’t, not in the slightest. That’s because I think that is what they did.
Doubling down is a strategy
Using my antennae for real-world political economy, which has proved to be pretty robust as well as accurate on the activities of the City in the past (tax havens, tax abuse, accounting failures and more) I think my suggestion completely stacks.
Anyone have any idea what this is referring to? Presumably Tax Havens is the Tax Justice Network (who kicked him out)
Tax abuse is the absurd ‘Tax Gap?’ He calculates which is 500 times reality?
Accounting failures is presumably a reference to either Sustainable Cost Accounting and the Fair Tax Mark?
So utter nonsense and as Ironman says (and my only criticism of his argument is that David’s Icke seems far less obnoxious) the equivalent of a tin foilhatter?
There is such a thing as ‘City opinion’. It is a perceived collectable view from which few dare deviate and in accordance with which most act. I think that is happening in this case. They will justify it by saying Musk created a risk to which they have to react.
There is no collective opinion at all – where I do see conformity is among extreme left DiE enthusiasts, Net Zero fanatics, and extreme statists. All are utterly blind to the disaster their policies are creating.
But the outcome is still exactly what he wants, and which they want, in the sense that the City does, rather bizarrely, see Labour as a far-left threat, which shows how out of touch with reality they are.
Is there any centre at all if Labour are ‘Centre right’- certainly to me they are well to the Left of anything we have seen in this country. Whatever their hue, as was pointed out by dozens of commentators yesterday (and it would have been 20,000 people had they not been blocked over the last decade and a half) this government is catastrophic – an opinion shared by more than Elon Musk.
The cooperation was not illicitly planned. It happened in plain sight and quite legally. But it was there. And the outcome is going to be a crisis hitting most people in the UK. I don’t, for a moment regret calling that out in real time.
Well presumably for firms such as mine there are dozens of fringe cranks accusing them of all and sundry collusion in myriad ‘crimes’ – why would arguably the most idiotic commentator in cyberspace be a cause for their concern? However, I may speak to my media teams and see if they consider whether legal action is appropriate – would be good to see the bastard homeless.
What a piece of shit he is.
VP
“ I hesitate to associate Murphy with something as iconic as Dad’s Army but he comes across like the U Boat captain in the episode ‘The Deadly Attachment’
‘Your name will also go on ze list’”
That reminds, someone referred Starmer as like the warden from Dad’s Army the other day. I saw what he meant, but the warden has at least some redeeming features, he’s patriotic for starters.
Is Spud not merely noticing the human herd instinct (but of course assigning a negative connotation to it because its produced a result he doesn’t like)? Namely that humans in herds tend to ignore something thats blatantly obvious until someone almost flicks a switch and then they all notice it at once and stampede for the exits?
The fact that Labour are concentrating hard on f*cking up the UK economy has been pretty obvious for months now, its just that no-one in the City wants to be the first one to react to that. Once a few brave souls venture into the unknown and that gets clocked by the herd, the rest soon follow. And of course now they all knew ages ago this was going to happen.
Anyone who has farmed sheep could have told you how it goes…..if you want to get a herd of sheep through a gateway, you just need one to be brave enough to go through alone, the rest will inevitably follow.
” but the warden has at least some redeeming features, he’s patriotic for starters.”
And a dab hand at throwing cricket balls at sea mines.
We could throw Starmer at them.
Can we please set up a Murphy/Worstall debate and get this beef sorted once and for all?
Broom
I suspect that dear Murph would feel that Tim grovelling in abject submission before his feet would be a gross denial of his god-like genius.