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As someone who knows Tony Millard outside the blogosphere I can vouch for the fact that, yes, he was kidding in the two posts you find less agreeable (the reference to Chianti should have been a dead give-away) 
. As with any good joke though, there was an underlying serious point to both of them, although I believe it had little to do with the proposed increase in petrol prices or depopulation of Britain.
His was a Pythonesque (Monty) take on the type of discourse committed in the name of libertarianism and various other ‘-isms’. That is a quasi-economic analysis, perhaps based on reasonable assumptions somewhere along the line but with a destination firmly in the barking moonbat land.
None of the above disputes, let alone refutes, your points about such increases being anything but a form of taxation, which we know is evil 
, and I agree that no-one in their right free-market mind would consider this as a solution to any economic problem.
So let’s carry on fighting for Liberty in our varied ways. Tony Millard’s may be on the funny side, but the serious point is there. You just have to dig deeper for it. How British!
