Second, we need to rethink the role of markets in essential goods. Pricing mechanisms that ration access based on ability to pay are not appropriate for something as fundamental as energy. There is a strong case for more direct intervention, including rationing if necessary, to ensure fair access.
Well, clearly no more fuel for you canal boat, you bourgeois swine.
Cool. So I’ll get a petrol coupon and as I don’t drive, flog it to the bloke over the road?
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Sure, nothing drives fairness better than some thick state drone allocating resources.
As one who was once a thick state drone, I naturally agree with you.
However I was also a LAZY thick state drone. So I thought ‘Why not let people work it all out for themselves. That means I can just lean back and nod off to sleep!!!’
Well of course I am sure someone posting polemics on Social media and their offspring will miraculously be deserving of all the ‘energy’ they require…
What a tosser – seriously.
‘Solemics’ 😉
“Something as fundemental as energy”? Has he never heard of Ed Miliband?
As Van Patten of this parish is wont to say about this twat – he is evil. This is not understated; it is objectively true.
Agreed. He is a Bolshevik.
As part of my volunteering at work I work with a charity that does rehabilitation work in prisons. I have encountered convinced sex offenders that strike me as far closer to likely redemption than this individual. It’s true the recent experiences at the hands of Keir Starmer’s government have elevated the current ‘PM’ to the title of ‘most evil man in British history’, but Murphy is very close,
He thinks he will be one of the socialist elite, “worthy citizen” who gets to shop in Intershops etc. Sadly for him I can’t imagine Zach and the Mo’s or the Labour Left will have much use for the Sage of Ely. PS I wish he would move away because that part of the Fens is actually quite nice!
Fred
interestingly both Gary Stevenson and Zack Polanski might have had very limited email exchanges or podcast appearances and have both distanced theirselves from him. The complaint about YouTube’s changes to their algorithms suggest he is not exactly financially secure. I totally agree about Ely – a city that deserves better.
Ely is a bit of shit-hole, though the Cathedral area and the waterfront are fine. The Fens generally are grim: flat, damp, monotonous and devoid of interest (apart from some good medieval churches).
Far better to venture into Norfolk or Suffolk (my adopted county, as an exiled Yorkshireman – Yorkshire being God’s Own County, obviously).
They never think about supply do they? And if he wants energy rationing how about he uses the train set for 5 mins a day max?
Increasing supply enables people to do stuff he can’t control. Anathema.
Let’s at least hope that the cvnt’s Berlingo is a diesel
“We,” kemo sabe?
Then let’s do away with pricing and paying. Appeal to pity fallacy.
What is this ‘strong case?’ He shouts it with a flourish, but fails to provide it. Begging the question fallacy.
I think it was the inestimable Noel Scoper or perhaps another stalwart like Mr Womby who pointed out reading a week of Murphy’s blog should be prescribed in a basic philosophy course as he uses almost every single logical fallacy that exists, with almost parodic frequency as well,
I don’t think I’ve seen a leftie begging for power by PROMISING rationing before.
Not sure if this is accidental honesty or he’s run out of rationales for why he should be in charge.
Rationing does have appeal to the young, who have never experienced it.
They think “Oh, so everyone gets a ‘fair’ share? Nice.”
But they don’t think “Hang on. I don’t want most goods. What am I going to do with tickets to the opera, when I really want tickets to the football match?”
This. When I watch TV programmes about WW2 and post-WW2 rationing my most common thought is: well, I bearly eat any of that *now*, what would I do with ration vouchers for them back then? Eg, I bought a box of eggs last month for the first time in about a year.
10,000 people die every month while waiting to see an NHS doctor. A higher proportion of children leave ten years of education illiterate then before education was compulsory. Our navy can’t even get a ship to sea. Children in State care have some of the worst outcomes in Europe. The roads are full of potholes. And that’s before we start on the police.
Everything the State touches is shit, but he constantly wants the State to do even more.
Non sequitur.
People dying, children illiterate, impotent navy, pot holes . . . they mean something to decent people. Commies are not decent people.
The commies have no interest in making things better. They DON’T CARE HOW THINGS ARE.
The issue is never the issue. This isn’t about access to energy. It’s about ceding authority to government. Cos reasons. EVERY commie statement is a trick, playing on YOUR concerns. They are not their concerns. They have no concerns.
Selling communism is difficult. So they lie and trick. With a free conscience. We project our decency on them, as it is impossible for decent people to comprehend the commie mindset.
When we renationalise the railways can we also nationalise the toy railways, please?
Here’s a question for him: If he doesn’t believe in markets, how does he arrive at price? Not whether the current price is too high or too low. But price itself. To put the question another way, how does he know whether I filled up the tank of my car yesterday or didn’t?. Not at some time in the future when sales figures by energy companies eventually reach his eyes. But now. Because whether I filled up my car’s tank yesterday will affect the price of fuel tomorrow. The market knows today..
How does he claim his ration of train set stuff?
I don’t think he’s thought this through. The people who will be most pissed off by rationing aren’t the rich, its the poor. Or rather those at the chavvier end of society. I wouldn’t fancy getting between stabby diverse types and their fried chicken. You’ll find more land whales in the average council estate than in the leafy suburbs. And I know which are more likely to start a riot if they get hungry.
I don’t suppose there’s a lot of people these days really understand how rationing actually worked. The think everybody meekly acquiesced & lived on their rations. Reality was you could get anything provided you could afford it & more importantly had the contacts. Fortunes were made in the black market.
The ultimate irony being that even when the UK was a hideously white high trust society, there was still as you say a massive black market response to rationing. Now, thanks to the importation of millions of low trust society types there’s not a hope in hell of ever being able to impose the sort of societal controls that the likes of Spud frot themselves over. The very thing that he and his ilk have supported makes it impossible to impose what they would like to in the future.
And it was the upper echelons of society, which most benefited from the “high trust society”, benefited most from the black market
Also, bring it on, I could do with some extra cash, a nice black market in food would suit me down to the ground…….
Ah, but watch out; after rationing fails, the next thing they do is kill all the kulaks.