It's just another poll, right? Still yay!

Happy birthday greyarea, and many thanks for the link. Guardian: The swing against Cameron:

David Cameron is now Britain's least popular party leader, liked less than Gordon Brown or Sir Menzies Campbell

Not exactly unexpected, but nice to see Teh Graun witha fairly balanced article for once. Number of minutes this will last.

Yes, I know it's just a poll, but it's still a nice start to the day. Anyway, gotta go, auditorium beckons...

Capitalism: anti market?

The ever excellent chris_dillow_fd has an excellent summary of the banks reaction to Northern Rock at Stumbling and Mumbling, and naturally I concur completely:

This episode shows that many bosses don't really believe in free markets. Instead, they are like the slaggiest single parent. They pretend to be victims, and expect the state to save people from the consequences of their own stupidity and promiscuity. Indeed, they are worse

A large number of capitalist managers and owners pay lip service to markets, but when it comes down to it would rather not worry about that dangerous 'competition' stuff.

Which is why calling markets 'right wing' is both blinkered and stupid--markets are a tool, a means to an end, and are neutral on left/right alignment. But they are a fundamental tenet of a modern free society.