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we should be prepared to bail it out. In truth
Douglas Carswell vainly trying to convince a Tory researcher in the mid-1990s that Britain shouldn't join the euro,gucci homme. That researcher is now a Cabinet minister and has, to be fair, changed his mind. (I have a pretty good notion of whom Douglas has in mind, because I was there during their altercation. Indeed, I had the same argument with the fellow dozens of times,Mulberry handbags.)
I mention this, not to say "I told you so" – - but in the hope that those who supported EMU in the 1990s might re-examine their prejudices. Although most of them have now stopped arguing that Britain should join the euro, they continue to apply the same mistaken thinking to the single currency as a whole, insisting that,Mulberry uk, since,Mulberry bags?a break-up of the euro would damage Britain, we should be prepared to bail it out. In truth, the opposite is the case. The euro is causing a great deal of preventable poverty in its peripheral member states: Greece,Mulberry outlet, Spain, Portugal and, most spectacularly, . Far from keeping these countries in the system, we should be . We surely have an interest, after all,ghd, in the solvency of our export markets.
I'm not asking for an apology from my old friend, nor from the others who drifted with bien pensant opinion during the Major years. I'm not calling for anyone to . I just want Euro-enthusiasts to consider why they were mistaken, and to apply that logic to our present circumstances.
Those who - the Huhnes and Cleggs, the Heseltines and Clarks, the Mandelsons and Hains – will no doubt still be deferred to by the BBC as impartial experts, while those of us who got it right will be wheeled out as pantomime Europhobes. I'm not complaining about any of this,ghd straighteners. But I would like my Europhile colleagues to look into their consciences, to ask themselves whether this is really about our economic interests, or whether it isn't about showing what thoroughly moderate,Louis Vuitton Sydney, cosmopolitan people they are. There's still time, my friends,ghd. Joy shall be in heaven, more over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance,Mulberry sale.
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Afterwards, Cavendish dedicated the win, his 38th in Grand Tours, to the memory of Belgian rider Wouter Weylandt who crashed and died on this equivalent stage two years ago. He held up the number 108 – Weylandt’s race number that day &ndash,ghd hair straighteners; on the podium and declared. "This is a sad day for all of us. We miss him every day."
Cavendish enjoyed donning the *maglia rossa*, the points leader’s jersey, again but still feels he is unlikely to claim it in a fortnight’s time at the finish in Brescia. The hills are alive now and the Manxman may not get a chance of winning another stage until late next week.
Meanwhile, Wiggins appeared to endure what must have been an alarming few minutes with considerable sangfroid as, first, he suffered a puncture and then, as he chased back,oakley pas cher, found himself stuck with about two-thirds of the peloton behind a huge crash on a narrow, barrier-lined section of road about 33km from the finish.
Up ahead,ghd straighteners, a group of about 40, including defending champ Ryder Hesjedal and Katusha’s Luca Paolini, who again defended the race leader’s *maglia rose*, were nearly two minutes clear as Wiggins was unable to find his way past or over an unholy mess of bikes and riders littering the road.
Happily for the race favourite, up ahead his team-mate Christian Knees helped persuade the leaders not to push the pace and Wiggins, blowing away a few cobwebs, roared back with his Sky colleagues to rejoin the group within about 10km. He was taking no chances, though, then zipping straight to the front and even leading the field into the last three kilometre &lsquo,ghd;safe zone’.
One suspects after a niggling week, he will be happy just to consolidate on Friday’s awkward 177km seventh stage, featuring some small but potentially
dangerous climbs between Marina di San Salvo and Pescara, before launching his first major assault in Saturday's key time trial.
Giro d'Italia details
Stage six, Mola di Bari – Margherita di Savoia 169km: Result
1. Mark Cavendish (Gbr – Omega Pharma-Quick Step) 3 hrs 56 mins 03 sec, 2. Elia Viviani (Ita &ndash,Mulberry handbags; Cannondale Pro Cycling) ST, 3. Matthew Goss (Aus Orica-GreenEdge), 4. Nacer Bouhanni (Fra – FDJ),Louis Vuitton Handbags Australia, 5. Mattia Gavazzi (Ita – Androni Giocattoli),ghd sale, 6. Manuel Belletti (Ita – AG2R La Mondiale), 7,oakley custom. Davide Appollonio (Ita – AG2R La Mondiale), 8. Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita – RadioShack Leopard), 9. Matti Breschel (Den – Team Saxo-Tinkoff), 10. Roberto Ferrari (Ita &ndash,Mulberry bags; Lampre-Merida)
General classification after Stage six: 1 Luca Paolini (Ita – Katusha) 23 hrs 52 mins 42 sec, 2 Rigoberto Uran Uran (Col – Team Sky) at 0.17, 3 Beat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa – Movistar Team) at 0.26, 4 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita – Astana Pro Team) at 0.31, 5 Ryder Hesjedal (Can – Garmin-Sharp) at 0.34, 6 Bradley Wiggins (Gbr – Team Sky) at same time, 7 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita – Katusha) at 0.36, 8 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya (Col – Team Sky) at 0.37, 9 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita – Vini Fantini-Selle Italia) at 0.39,louis vuitton outlet AU, 10 Cadel Evans (Aus – BMC Racing Team) at 0.42
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of all people
British Toryism can be surprisingly unpolitical. It's an instinct rather than an ideology. Or, rather, an amalgam of instincts: patriotism, distrust of officialdom, respect for property and so on,Mulberry handbags.
American conservatism is a far more doctrinal affair. Its exponents become as passionate when debating the virtues of Rothbardian versus Randian libertarianism as when weighing the merits of, say, Gingrich versus Santorum. In Britain,Mulberry handbags, we see factionalism of this sort as the province of student Lefties,gucci pas cher, and a bar to electoral success. The American experience suggests that we might be wrong –,louis vuitton handbags; that idealism stimulates enthusiasm.
During the middle years of the twentieth century, US Republicans were pragmatic, respectable – and unpopular. They were in semi-permanent opposition in Congress, and won the presidency only when they fielded a suitably non-partisan candidate, such as Eisenhower. Over the past half century, the GOP from a fastidious, East Coast,chanel pas cher, preppy, undoctrinaire party that kept losing into an ideological, evangelical, Sunbelt, populist movement that keeps winning.
I've just spent the weekend at CPAC, the greatest annual gathering of American conservatives. The place was fizzing with ideas and energy. One after another,Mulberry outlet, the big beasts of the Right sounded their calls: Bobby Jindal, Sarah Palin, Marco Rubio, Herman Cain, Scott Walker,gucci homme, Paul Ryan. (I hope these last two won't mind if I say that the most moving speech came from their fellow Wisconsinite Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, who talked artlessly about the values that had turned his Greek grandfather into an American patriot. The idea that 'the Republican establishment' is divorced from the wider conservative movement is starting to look terribly last-decade.)
Like suitors in a fairy-tale, the presidential hopefuls pressed their claims. Mitt Romney won the straw-poll, with Rick Santorum second and Newt Gingrich third. Ron Paul, who had won in 2010 and 2011, stayed away to concentrate on the campaign in Maine.
Here's the thing, though. It occurred to me, watching the various candidates, that we may be giving excessive weight to just one of the many elections taking place across the US on 6 November,louis vuitton outlet. There will also be votes for numerous state legislatures, 13 gubernatorial posts, 33 Senate seats and all 435 House districts. And, as you can hear me telling delegates in the clip below, it's Congress that sets the budget.
Conservatives, of all people, should be jealous of the prerogatives of the Legislature. The Founders knew what they were doing when they put Congress in Article I of the Constitution and the Presidency in Article II. As the Executive has enlarged its authority beyond that envisaged in the constitution, so the state has swollen.
If you prefer to look at it in partisan terms, consider that the Republicans were most dominant during the period between the Civil War and the end of the nineteenth century,ghd sale. Throughout this era, they upheld the doctrine of strong Congress, weak White House. And, sure enough, the presidents of this era are reassuringly forgettable: James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Chester Arthur, Rutherford B Hayes.
Foreign media and – more surprisingly – most Americans obsess about the pros and cons of the various presidential hopefuls, but a far more important question is whether there will be a Congressional majority dedicated to proper spending cuts. I know ,Air Max 1, but the case is surely even stronger today. You could put a second Reagan in the White House but, as long as the Legislature is run by a Pelosi-Reid cartel, it would be a terrible waste of a good president.
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But write a book attacking the euro
What does a Eurocrat need to do to get fired? Simon McGee answers the question in an astonishing report for The Sunday Times,Nike Air Max 90 Cheap. Since that paper is now secured behind the fastness of its paywall, let me cite some of the examples he discovered in the EU’s official disciplinary record,louis vuitton outlet.
Cause an accident by driving one of the European Commission’s cars while drunk and you can expect to be reprimanded,Mulberry bags. Get into a brawl in a Commission building and your promotion will be delayed,chanel pas cher. Fiddle your expenses and you might actually be moved to a different post. Be found guilty by a criminal court of “living off immoral earnings and keeping a brothel” and you will be downgraded,Mulberry sale. Get yourself convicted for paedophile offences and you will have your pension cut.
But write a book attacking the euro (as did) or go public with your concerns about fraud in the budget (as did) and you will be dismissed,Air Max 1.
Now it’s true that I don't know the details of all these cases,sac gucci pas cher, though I’m pretty familiar with the last two. Perhaps, in some instances,cheap ghd straighteners, there were mitigating circumstances,ghd sale. Still,sac chanel, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the EU regards criticism of itself as the one unpardonable offence.
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. You'll take what you're given and be grateful.
If you still need a reason to vote out this hopeless and hapless government,air jordan pas cher, . Labour has U-turned on the idea of giving the public a direct say over how the police is run. Once again, elected ministers have come into conflict with the standing apparat. And, once again, the apparatchiks have won,jordan pas cher. The chief purpose of the British state remains the employment of its employees,ralph lauren.
So,jordan pas cher, if you disagree with how the police are prioritising their tasks – if you'd rather they spent more time being unpleasant to scoundrels and less installing speed cameras, or more money on foot patrols and less on diversity advisers, or harassed drug dealers rather than middle-aged Opposition MPs – then,ralph lauren pas cher, as we Old Brussels Hands say, tant pis. You'll take what you're given and be grateful,air jordan pas cher.
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“Not only could drivers see pump prices ticking up by a 1p or more a week,polo ralph lauren, but cold weather pushed up fuel consumption.”
The sales figures are the lowest since January 1990, when Customs and Excise first began recording forecourt sales. Then, with petrol costing 38.1 pence a litre,polo ralph lauren pas cher, forecourt sales reached 2,air jordan,644 billion litres.
For the driver of a small saloon,air jordan pas cher, the cost of filing a tank has risen by just under £100 over the past 23 years.
Motorists could have been paying even more for their fuel had George Osborne not scrapped a planned duty increase in his budget earlier this week,jordan pas cher, which would have added 3p to a litre of petrol or diesel.
Case study: The driver
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Joanne Taylor drives about 20,000 miles a year so high fuel prices eat into her income significantly.
The marketing training manager from Oxford welcomed the Chancellor’s decision to scrap the planned 3p rise in fuel duty,polo ralph lauren pas cher, but said it would still be very expensive to fill up her car.
She accepts that the Government has to get its revenue from somewhere, but points out that the high price of fuel affects rich and poor alike and represents an unavoidable cost for many people who rely on their vehicles to get to work.
“It’s obviously great news that at least the duty’s not going to go any higher, but it’s a shame that we already have to pay so much tax on our fuel – especially when quite a lot of other countries don’t. But it’s better than nothing,” she said.
Miss Taylor, 30, drives an eco-friendly BMW 1 series car to keep the cost of motoring as low as possible. None the less, she has been shocked by the level of fuel price increases over recent years.
She said: &ldquo,jordan;I can remember unleaded being under £,jordan pas cher;1,ralph lauren pas cher. How can it go up so much and affect our day-to-day lives when the fuel companies make such a large profit,jordan pas cher?”
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New Zealand is an extraordinary place: no country on Earth is further from Britain physically, or more like it in character. No nation is so uncomplicatedly Anglophile. Successive NZ governments opposed Dominion autonomy, and for years declined to ratify the Statute of Westminster on grounds of Imperial solidarity.
Nowadays,polo ralph lauren pas cher, though,ralph lauren, there is an important difference between the two kindred nations: unlike the United Kingdom, New Zealand has not surrendered its sovereignty. It may thus serve rather like the control in a scientific experiment: a model of what Britain might have been had it not made the disastrous decision to abandon its parliamentary democracy in 1972.
Imagine a Britain which retained its territorial resources,ralph lauren pas cher, its legal system,air jordan pas cher, its local democracy,air jordan pas cher, its immigration controls,polo ralph lauren, its farming and fishing policies, its social and employment laws. New Zealand, my friends,polo ralph lauren pas cher, is such a country.
I was in Auckland recently to address a truly brilliant think-tank, the ,jordan pas cher, and have recorded my impressions of that country It was a pleasure to meet a number of Kiwis who follow this blog. An amazing thing,jordan pas cher, the Internet. As they say in New Zealand, "Choice,ralph lauren, eh?"
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Destroy it
"Banter". Can we end it? Destroy it, cleanse it with fire, encase it in lead and hurl its charred corpse into the North Sea? It is,jordan, , literally and without question the single worst thing in the history of the universe. Worse than the SN1987A supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which wiped out six planetary civilisations (you probably didn't read about that at the time, though).
I mention this in response to a story we run today about sexist trousers. Yes, sexist trousers. Emma Barnett, our digital media editor, spotted – as she was doing some laundry – :
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Machine wash warm. Inside out with like colours,jordan pas cher.
Use only non-chlorine bleach,air jordan. Tumble dry medium,polo ralph lauren pas cher.
Medium hot iron. Do not iron print.
—Or—
[and you can tell they're setting themselves up for the BIG PUNCHLINE FINISH]
GIVE IT TO YOUR WOMAN
It's her job,air jordan pas cher.
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Oh my aching sides, etc.
Now, we can argue until our own sun burns its final hydrogen molecules about whether that's funny or not. Personally I think any joke which needs its payoff signalled a month in advance is not worth the effort. Is it offensive? , some people will think it is, some won't. Personally I'm not about to march on Parliament,air jordan, but I can see why people might not like it. Obviously it would be ridiculous to ban crap jokes in trousers, but people who are offended have the right to say so. It's all part of our rich denim tapestry, or something.
But. Oh, God, but. The people defending it. "It's only banter", they all say. I have seen the word "banter" probably 50 times this morning. Banter. "It's not our fault if you can't take a bit of banter." "Grow up, it's only a bit of banter." "Get a sense of humour, it's just banter." Banter.
Banter is not humour; banter is what people have when they lack a sense of humour. Banter is a catch-all word for idiocy that warns the rest of us that Here Be Lads. Banter is Soccer AM. It is Andy Gray. It is middle-aged men on Top Gear pretending that they are edgy outsiders by mocking society's weakest, then going home to Chipping Norton where they live two doors down from the Prime Minister. It is an English stag do in Dublin or Amsterdam with matching T-shirts. It is cruelty unleavened by wit but which is excused because it is a bit like wit, if you look at it from a certain angle. It what is left when humour has died, and just the rotting,ralph lauren, stinking carcass remains, bearing a resemblance to the living being but lacking all that made it good. Banter is writ large. If you like banter, you are an idiot.
I'm not a fan.
This is not a tirade against rudeness. I am all in favour of rudeness, of bawdiness, of insult and mockery and obscenity. They're all brilliant things, when done well. But "banter" isn't. If you insult someone, you expect them to be insulted; if you are rude, you expect people to be offended. "Banter" is apparently a free pass: I can insult you, but you're not allowed to be insulted, because "it's only banter". I can be obscene, but you can't be offended, because "it's only banter". No. If you're a grown-up,jordan, you know that your offensiveness may offend,jordan pas cher, and you either accept that or you apologise and don't do it again. Saying "it's only banter" makes you not only an idiot, but an idiot who can't take responsibility for his own jokes.
This isn't "only banter". I'm literally and specifically saying that if you – you,ralph lauren, the reader – like "banter", you are an idiot. You are welcome to be offended by that.
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