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Bill Jamieson - Sheer boredom may halt this 'happy ever after' bandwagon



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Published Date: 08 August 2008
IS IT really all over for the Greens? Julie Burchill hopes so.
Her book, Not in My Name, launches an excoriating attack on one of the most successful political movements of the past decade as po-faced, unsexy, ex-public-schoolboy nerds determined to make the working classes feel guilty about the few pleasures le...



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  • Last Updated: 07 August 2008 8:52 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Bill Jamieson
 
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Neil,

Glasgow 08/08/2008 11:47:11
The problem with "happiness economics" is that it is difficult to measure & it is rarely measured honestly. Most surveys of happiness actually measure all the old Green shibboleths (no of birds, nos of windmills, though not number of birds disembowlled by windmills) & leave out minor stuff like not dying of hypothermia in old age.

The best such measure, a few years ago, just asked people how happy they were & free market Ireland & Switzerland came top & oraganic eating Zimbabwians & Haitians came last. So if economic growth isn't a measure of happiness it is is the best correlation we have.

The Greens commitment to low or negative growth & more government regulation over the last 40 years has led to us being at least 82% poorer than we could be. It is long past time the media stopped propagandising for these parasites.
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Chewbanana,

Edinburgh 08/08/2008 12:34:10
My God - Scotsman uncovers the last two remaining Scottish NeoCons. I vote that there is some kind of fund raised to preserve these two 'rare' species. Pickling is natural for example, they would enjoy the irony.

 

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