found so revealing and so galvanizing in terms of your future where the first thing was that the lisbon treaty had set me off because it was such an obvious trampling of democracy that our boys are prepared to tolerate and that was the final straw but no sooner had i reached that final point than the financial crisis began to unfold and i've been following the austrian school of economics since two thousand when the dot com bust happened i was looking for a reason why because i was doing a masters degree at oxford trying to get into software and suddenly my investment in looks oh wise so i discovered the austrian school the monetary theory of the trade cycle predicted very much what happened then and what's happening now but i cast it aside because i thought if there was anything in it the economists and the politicians would sort out the monetary regime the banking system. and of course they didn't so when the crisis broke i was delighted i was still on a trajectory to parliament and i co-founded the compton center to try and get these ideas out in the public space one of the things that you'