Hard to get a definitive impression of character from a few sound bites and a website but she seems honestly committed to what she thinks is right. For a politician that is a decent starting point.

Tim adds: A good starting point indeed. Pity she messes it up by having no contact with logic or evidence…..

Price and quality competition IS the method through which cooperation occurs.

That this can be so owes entirely to the inequalities between individuals and different parts of the natural environment and is expressed in the Law of Comparative Advantage.

One of my favourite explanations is the one tendered by Margaret ‘BNP’ Hodge, here in Hansard on the topic of ‘nursery vouchers’.

The beastly Tories introduced these – a few £ a day towards nursery costs, but they merely led to cut-throat competition between nurseries to offer, er, the best nursery.

Nulab replaced these with, in the common parlance, ‘nursery vouchers’, a few £ a day towards nursery costs (this ‘free place’ stuff is straightforward lies) which, unlike the Tory model, “emphasise co-operation, rather than competition, between providers”.

There is a huge difference between nursery vouchers and nursery vouchers!

A perfect example of what is wrong with Proportional Representation.

She represents the nastiest and most ignorant of rich peoples’ sentiment at the cost of the poor.

What is particularly sickening is that she has contributed nothing (in fact negatively) to the wealth and power of the West that permits her potty indulgences.

She represents something very nasty, and is a real and present danger to humankind.