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Article: The shocking truth about inflation: it could do us a power of good
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 16, 1995
- Author:
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THE Jacobite heritage season is almost upon us. A few weeks,
and it will be exactly 250 years since Prince Charles Edward raised
his standard at Glenfinnan. The Forty-Five perhaps deserved to
fail. But the idea of hoisting a banner that made Whigs scream and
clutch their money-bags was a fine one. It's in that spirit that I
want to raise another standard. It would bear a slogan so obscene
that pious parents would cover their children's eyes against it. My
flag will say: "Long Live Inflation, Friend of Mankind!"
How strange it is that the British should have let themselves be
conquered by Whiggish zealots who believe that inflation is the
deadliest sin! The British - that conspiracy of ...