Every cook can model the UK economy

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/budgetinteractive/

interactive model to try altering UK economy, if you do not mind working in
pounds.

Not every cook can yet be involved in the affairs of state, but we can play
at them. (Most of my interventions seem to destabilise the economy.)

> We are not utopians. We know that an unskilled labourer or a cook cannot
> immediately get on with the job of state administration. In this we agree
> with the Cadets, with Breshkovskaya, and with Tsereteli. We differ,
> however, from these citizens in that we demand an immediate break with the
> prejudiced view that only the rich, or officials chosen from rich
> families, are capable of administering the state, of performing the
> ordinary, everyday work of administration. We demand that training in the
> work of state administration be conducted by class-conscious workers and
> soldiers and that this training be begun at once, i.e., that a beginning
> be made at once in training all the working people, all the poor, for this
> work.

Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power? 1917 Lenin

But he did not think of getting the cooks together in a focus group.

Chris Burford