But here’s what baffles me: I listened to Gary’s latest video today, and I just wish he would talk to me. We were in correspondence for a while, a month or so ago. I sent his team the Taxing Wealth Report at their request, and then I was told his agent said he was too busy to talk to me.
That even they thought it was tossery seems not to have registered as yet.
Gary is leading the narrative. I have the policies. It is time to connect the two.
I read his whole post and for the first time I felt sorry and embarrassed for him. It’s like a teenage girl crying that some popstar won’t talk to her – but if only I could show him how we’d be so good together!!!
The clue was when he only got as far as the agent. That’s a big no thanks, fuck off.
Boddicker
There’s always that small tinge of sympathy but when dealing with someone like Murphy we can’t afford it – you know he’d have none whatsoever for us!!
Methinks the list of things that are “fascist” is about to get longer.
Is this Gary big-ears Lineker?
I know he has an interest in not taxing his own wealth but is probably ok with everyone else getting screwed.
Spud has (to mix my metaphors) a fragile but inflated ego, and he seems fundamentally and pathetically insecure. Presumably, this is why he cannot tolerate dissent or take criticism. His emphatic belief in his own omni-competence and his apparent Messiah complex bolster his fragile ego. But perhaps he senses that his star is fading as Stevenson’s star rises in the tax nuttery firmament…
Murphy’s ego is so massive it can be seen from the International Space Station as a sort of bloom over Ely.
Think this one is a mix of ego, greed and jealousy.
He clearly can’t stand someone stealing his hard left tax the rich thunder, leaving him as an expert and talking head rather out of fashion. Nor can he stand the idea that other people out there don’t have the same high opinions of him than he does
In addition I think he can see that GS is getting far more views, clicks and clout than he is. Which means a lot more revenue from Youtube/Tiktok etc, which he is newly aware of given the switch in his business model. That’s before you consider book deals and the money there….
Unsurprisingly, as he’s jealous of pretty much anyone who is successful or has more than him, he’s trying to muscle in on it. Though why he thinks GS would engage with him after he’s already heavily criticised GS many times on TRUK is beyond me.
The potato provides a handy link to email GS to pressure him into talking to the prophet of Ely.
I took the potato up on his offer and congratulated GS on his wise decision to ignore this buffoon.
John,
“Is this Gary big-ears Lineker?”.
no Gary Stephenson, the ex trader, who is doing well on Youtube. He is very into his inequality stuff. He has an economics degree with post grad at Oxbridge, probably doesn’t feel the need for our Prof’s pearls of economics wisdom.
I may have posted this before. WS Gilbert:
If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:
I’m a genuine philanthropist – all other kinds are sham.
Each little fault of temper and each social defect
In my erring fellow-creatures, I endeavour to correct.
To all their little weaknesses I open people’s eyes,
And little plans to snub the self-sufficient I devise;
I love my fellow-creatures – I do all the good I can –
Yet everybody says I’m such a disagreeable man!
And I can’t think why!
Gary Stevenson “has an economics degree with post grad at Oxbridge”.
Yes, he has a degree in economics from LSE (class unknown) and an MPhil in economics from Oxford. As I understand it, the latter is a degree you have to try hard to fail. Higher degrees at Oxford and elsewhere are a racket. A friend who teaches at Oxford, tells me how often he was over-ruled when he wanted to fail sub-standard MPhil and DPhil candidates.
Well, to give Gazza his due there is MPhil (I’ve read it, yes) isn’t bad. I mean it’s wrong but it’s not bad. And his LSE degree was a First. Which is pretty darn good, even in his day.
He’s also thrown a tantrum today about the appointment of Minouche Shafik as Starmer’s chief economic adviser! Something he clearly fancied himself, but Starmer isn’t going to appoint someone who was beyond the pale Corbyn and McDonnell
And about once a month, he has a tantrum about Dan Neidle.
” And his LSE degree was a First. Which is pretty darn good, even in his day.”
If he’s so clever, why does he talk such bollocks?
Its the typical ‘ooh, degrees mean clever’ schtick. No, it just means he knows how to write stuff examiners like, and get pieces of paper as a result. He is still as thick as the proverbial if all the conclusions he draws about real life are wrong.
Theophrastus said:
“he has a degree in economics from LSE (class unknown) and an MPhil in economics from Oxford.”
Ah, couldn’t get into Oxford for his undergraduate degree (when it is very competitive), but it seems that rankled so he went there to do an MPhil (when it’s much easier to get into, so long as you’re prepared to pay through the nose for it).
As my tutor often said, you only do a postgrad degree if people don’t think you’re good enough to give you the job you want straight from your undergraduate one.
Oh yes, Gary Stevenson.
Another shyster.
‘I was best trader in the world’
Absolute BS.
Then he goes on to say he currently has ‘massive positions in gold’, and in the next breath says it’s a spread best. Let me tell you, no one is holding ‘massive positions’ at bucket shops. Even if he’s betting a tenner a point ‘oooohhh’, he’s holding absolutely nothing. Oh and of course. Spread betting is gambling so it’s tax free…..hahahahahahah ‘tax the rich, yeah I’m bloody rich me…..just don’t tax me, cos I’m well rich I am’.
And what’s this ‘and his team’. Oh yes. Gary Stevenson.
Man of the people.
Spread Best
Spread Net
Bread Net
Bread Basket
SPREAD BET
If he’s so clever, why does he talk such bollocks?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19733444/
“If he’s so clever, why does he talk such bollocks?”
I’ve noticed that the more clever people are, the greater their propensity to talk bollocks. Why is this? I reckon it’s because the more clever you are the better you become at rationalising your emotions, need for meaning, and beliefs. So you come up with all sorts of plausible-sounding crap to justify shit that eventually boils down to “because I say so.”
That Marx bloke was very clever, and look at the pernicious bollocks he talked. That Torsten Bell is very clever too, as is that Darren Jones, and between them their lefty economic theology is going to fucking crucify us.
Theo, that’s brilliant. I’ve been thinking for a while now that one of our problems is too many clever people in positions of political power and explained my reasons above but that paper nails it.
We erroneously believe our complicated problems can be solved by clever people. No. By and large, unless they’re clever the way Hayek and Sowell are, clever people are likely to make them worse.
Norman
Glad you found it enlightening. At Oxford, I knew a chap with an extraordinary intellect – expert in mathematical logic/foundations of mathematics, able to play numerous piano sonatas from memory, able to recite vast chunks of Homer (in greek) and Shakespeare, unbeatable at chess, etc – but his life has been a car-crash and an utter failure because he so evidently lacks commonsense.