Showing posts with label free trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free trade. Show all posts
Friday, 22 May 2020

Trade in food is not a special case, we can and will have free trade - beef and liberty.

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 The great schisms in conseravtive party thinking have always been, in one way or another, about the cause of free trade. The repeal of ...
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Saturday, 30 December 2017

Free trade is not a policy...

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Excellent exposition on free trade from Jon Murphy: ...since free trade is no policy, it is not dependent upon the assumptions of the econo...
Thursday, 9 November 2017

It's not capitalism we need to defend, it's freedom

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Every now and then I get asked about why I'm in politics and, once I've done the self-deprecating bit about how no other business wo...
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Wednesday, 1 November 2017

Why free trade....

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There's too much technocratic mumbo jumbo about trade. Not least the dribbling nonsense that trade is something permitted by government ...
Saturday, 7 October 2017

A truly global economy...

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From Don Boudreaux: A truly global economy is simply what happens when governments do not obstruct their citizens’ decisions to trade wit...
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Monday, 31 July 2017

In all this trade talk let's not forget that we're rich because we're free

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It starts like this : At the end of last year, a news story was published with huge implications for ‘international development’: a drop-...
Saturday, 22 July 2017

"They can pay more for their food" - Jay Rayner meets Marie-Antoinette

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I'm going to leave aside accusations of vanity, self-promotion and smugness because we are all guilty of such vices. I'm going to fo...
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Saturday, 23 January 2016

Tim Montgomerie perhaps needs to learn the difference between business and markets

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**** Montgomerie is on about Donald Trump and, in the main his little article is pretty much spot on. Except for this bit : Conservativ...
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Saturday, 2 November 2013

Fair trade and the keeping of peasants in their place

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**** The other day the fine town of Keighley was celebrating achieving "fair trade" status . In truth not everyone in Keighley w...
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Sunday, 24 March 2013

Capitalism works and we should celebrate

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After all there's an International Workers Day, why not an International Capitalism Day. Here in England we've got rather used t...
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Sunday, 17 February 2013

Free trade...just do it

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**** I gather that we're (by which I mean our EU overlords) going to be chatting to Barak over the pond about a "free trade agre...
Saturday, 26 January 2013

Hunger will disappear IF...we stop subsidising poverty and promote free trade

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**** This year, many of the world’s most powerful leaders will meet in the UK. They must change the future for millions of people wh...
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Thursday, 17 January 2013

Sorry Ms Moore, I'm right wing and I believe in freedom

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There has, it seems, been some great debate amongst assorted "equalities" mongers - indeed the debate has descended into a row a...
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Thursday, 22 November 2012

Free speech, free enterprise, free trade...

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**** ...and while I’m about it free choice and free markets. It hurts doesn’t it! I’ve been struck by the swiftness with which pe...
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Wednesday, 7 November 2012

On being right-wing....

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**** It has been a funny experience watching and listening to all that American politics playing itself out on our media. And the thing th...
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