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is it just me or is it just me or now more than somewhat frustrated by the coalition they have so much of an opportunity to make decisions and change things but don t seem to have the balls to overcome the civil service and europe i m seriously feeling warmer about ukip monday 30 january 2012 jobs growth doom this is a reply i made to john redwood s diary today 12 or more hours later it s not been passed by a moderator though lots of others have given the crap spouted after the eu summit today i think it s a debate we should be having i m slowly becoming convinced that full or low unemployment is almost impossible to achieve in the post automation age there are very few labour intensive industries any more and those that do exist have moved to developing countries where labour costs are much lower all parties seem to focus on economic growth as the answer to provide jobs but at the growth after the 80s recession showed modern economic growth is achievable with low job growth in fact is more likely to be employment light it only seems logical to me think of all the industries that have either moved overseas or slimmed dramatically in respect of workforces shipbuilding car manufacturing for example my career was largely in electronic engineering and even that highly skilled occupation has changed dramatically with design automation and high levels of integration reducing the number of designers needed drawing offices have largely disappeared secretarial and administrative roles have shrunk through the use of computers even it work has been deskilled and wages contrained and this was heralded as one of the new golden opportunities we should be training people for the time that the shrinkage in good jobs started to show itself was masked by the rapid growth in public sector employment in the late 90s and early this century i simply can t see where mass jobs are going to come from other than in low paid low skilled service sector roles it comes to something when the bbc heralds as good news that macdonalds are planning to create thousands of new jobs surely the only way to address the future is for a complete shift in our political models that plans for a society that will never have full employment where business and growth is capital intensive rather than labour intensive posted by increasinglymiffed at 21 21 no comments tuesday 8 november 2011 economic growth wishful thinking i ve spoken before about being concerned that some of my thoughts are naive or ill informed ie is it just me or but i m a bit confused about all the talk of growth and the reliance on it as i understand it a country s economic growth can primarily only come from two sources greater consumption by it s citizens and businesses which surely can only come in any significant sustainable measure by an increase in population or from exports in fact i m sure obama said in his g20 speech that for global growth weaker economies should work to become more efficient and competitive so they can export and stronger economies should be prepared to open their markets for others problem is it seems to me the world is a closed system as a whole if one country is exporting another must be importing the net sum of exports against imports must be zero therefore economies that grow through exports must do so at the cost of other economies looking at the state of our country s debt and that of its citizens surely much of the growth our own economy has had over the last couple of decades has been at the cost of running up personal and national debt all the plans both domestic and through the eu in particular that rely on growth really do seem to be so much wishful thinking to me or worse deceit a fop to the people to delay the day of reckoning greece for example it s said that the only hope for the greek economy and the very nation is for their economy to grow even after the bailout and debt write offs they can t survive reduce their defecit and manage their debt how on earth are they going to grow their economy the only hope i can see for them is to decouple from the euro devalue and be able to exploit their greatest natural asset tourism by becoming a destination of choice again because of the value they can offer with a weaker currency come on put me straight to my mind all the strategies for economic recovery should assume no growth any growth there is would then be a bonus posted by increasinglymiffed at 13 24 no comments waking from my slumber it s about a year and a half since i last blogged i stopped because the things that really wound me up labour in power had changed and i was hopeful for change i m beginning to feel as pissed off as i did when i blogged before not necessarily about things like the cuts the coalition are making because i genuinely believe it is needed in fact the cuts are not enough and real dead wood in the public sector should be more vigorously pruned most of my ire now is directed towards the eu and i want to say more about that among other things over coming days and weeks i m tired of the lie that is europe and the concealment of the true aim of a federal europe with the destruction of the sense of nationhood it s so undemocratic that it s almost hard to believe they re getting away with it posted by increasinglymiffed at 13 17 no comments wednesday 9 june 2010 brown spotting i know i ve been quiet lately just had many other things to do and i m much less exercised politically right now i was lovvely to hear that nice liam byrne on the radio yesterday smarming his oily scaremongering criticisms of the new government s cuts agenda what struck me though was his response when asked if he d had any contact with gordon brown he said that gordon was having a well earned break we haven t seen anything of him at all have we correct me if i m wrong but did he not decide to stay on as an mp has he not got a constituency to represent and i assume he s being paid an mp s salary is it just me or does this seem just another sign of his contempt for us all nice to get paid for not doing anything eh posted by increasinglymiffed at 13 07 1 comment thursday 13 may 2010 a new dawn i thought i d better not leave my blog with the last post still talking about the dark days so we have a new and rather unexpected government while they were negotiating and especially at the time when the prospect of that ridiculous rainbow alliance was not out of the question i still felt very deflated and depressed at the failure of cam to gain an overall majority since the deal was sealed and especially after the cabinet was named and after that extraordinary press conference in the no 10 garden i feel a sense of real optimism look at the stark difference in the feel of that press conference and the spirit of the leaders with the last administration to see people with a real passion for their subject who have worked with enthusiasm that almost fizzes like gove and ids to get the opportunity at last to actually do something is really exciting cameron was brave in some of his appointments and he deserves credit clarke in justice is a great idea too it wouldn t have been surprising for ken to decide to take an easy life but for him to accept the job says so much about this new team go for it boys make us proud of you we in the blogosphere will be watching though posted by increasinglymiffed at 08 27 no comments saturday 8 may 2010 the pr debate nonsense recently and especially in the aftermath of the election there s been a great deal of discussion and righteous posturing about proportional representation i can t say i ve ever been that much of a fan sure the fptp system with the current make up of the constituencies and distribution of voters creates a result that renders a population of mps that doesn t match the proportion of votes maybe that isn t fair but hey life isn t fair i m not even really convinced that it s necessarily desirable to offer an elected postion to someone who represents beliefs shared by 0 15 of the electorate which is the logical extension of the pr argument unless it s not really about pr but about pandering to the libdems theres a real issue about the link between voting and identifying your elected representative too i think but the current manoeverings within the hung parliament has really got me thinking the negotiations held in private with all the dealing and horse trading and brinksmanship this isn t good is it this isn t really open democracy and under pr we d never have another majority government so this would be the norm is that what we want so debating holding a referendum on pr is missing the point by a huge margin it s not the voting system that needs to be reviewed it s the wider political system how government is constituted how it operates the very values it seeks to stand for people point to other countries as proof that hung parliaments or coalitions can work well fine but they aren t the uk government i m no expert on foreign parliamentary mechanics but i bet there are fundamental cultural and structural differences that mean it s much more practical to work in those places just focussing on fptp vs stv or pr is dangerously missing the point it seems to me that should be the final minor part of changing the political system if that s what we want of course to me for all its flaws it seems to me that the current system isn t that bad there are more important things that all that intellectual energy and time would be better employed at like fixing the economy and working out why so many people have demonstrated how tribal bigoted closed minded and generally stupid they are by voting labour posted by increasinglymiffed at 13 13 no comments thursday 29 april 2010 one observation on immigration movement from the eu for what it s worth prompted by derbyshire s programme on r5l this morning a thought about inward immigration from the eu the argument reiterated by brown to gillian duffy yesterday is that there is equal opportunity for brits to go to other eu coiuntries to work and that therefore the economic effect is at least neutral and probably beneficial a polish woman was interviewed she had a masters degree but admitted that she was financially better off coming here to work in a factory than to work in poland later when asked about the effect she thought that poles coming to work here was she said that british people could and she asserted did go and work in poland however clearly from her evidence they would be going to work for lower wages that they could get here so why would they i have nothing intrinsically against movement of people around the world or within the eu but i would like there to be more openness and truthfulness about the effect of it it seems obvious to me that if there is a source of workers available who are prepared even eager to work for lower wages than would otherwise pertain it will inevitably produce a downward pressure on wages i suspect that is in some way an intentional effect of the eu anecdotally from my experience it does seem that salaries available from jobs now are relatively much lower than perhaps ten years or so ago life is much harder and was even before the recession posted by increasinglymiffed at 14 05 no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom followers blog archive 2012 1 january 1 jobs growth doom 2011 2 november 2 2010 17 june 1 may 2 april 6 march 6 february 2 2009 38 december 4 november 19 october 15 about me increasinglymiffed oxford united kingdom a fifty something man feeling more and more exasperated view my complete profile my blog list guy fawkes blog dan hodges zia yusuf s days in reform are numbered 42 minutes ago iain dale s diary long read the cost of climate change the rush to net zero by 2050 the renewables dilemma adapting to the new normal 3 days ago delphius debate disposable barbeques covid part deux 4 days ago john redwood rebuilding a coalition for prosperity and success 1 year ago not a 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