1p equals £500million to the government pocket. That's a hefty payday for those trying to save up our money so they can later claim that as a result of charging us more tax on top of our taxes, they've managed sort things out so that we don't owe as much anymore as a country and austerity has in fact worked. It's beyond belief.
The negative multiplier effect of this sort of taxation on non-elastic purchases in the economy is brutal. People, after paying tax must buy fuel to go about their business. Even trying to avoid expenditure by ordering groceries online all factors into the supermarkets cost structure which is then still passed onto the consumer.
All this increased expenditure required to continue to run the country's infrastructure, is estimated to result in the loss of 35,000 people's jobs.
It's beyond reason - even beyond belief, even for soulless, rich-boy, private marketers like Cameron and Osborne.
What about you readers outside the UK? If Obama or your "leader" did this, there'd be riot, wouldn't there?
Comment please!
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5 comments:
The real blame lies with Doctor Beeching. If he hadn't decimated the rail network we could all still be happily travelling about by train. (preferably steam.) There would be less congestion and no need for all these roads,cars lorries and fuel taxes. Slower yes but so much more enjoyable. You've never lived if you haven't enjoyed a warm fire in a railway station platform waiting room in sub zero temperatures or sat in a freezing carriage when the heating gives out with only a pipe for heat and smoke.(One of the reasons pipes were so popular) We could have kept the mines open and saved our countryside from the abomination of subsidised worse than useless windmills and other so called green energy cons which mainly fuel the corrupt pockets of UNOHOO and kept those thousands of miners in work mining our greatest natural resource.(With all the latest health safeguards naturally)
Rumour has it that Dr Beeching only got the job in the first place because of his notorious reputation as a GP/surgeon.with the highest amputation rate for sore throats in the land.Now for the canals.....
To all our American Cousins across the pond who will undoubtedly read this blog I say this in mitigation of my above assertion which could be construed as not tongue in cheek or politically correct. There that should eliminate the illiterati for starters. Seriously I love the Yanks really, my brother is one but I do get pissed off with the way they steal our glory and convert great historical heroic deeds done by the Brits either military or academic into American ones via Hollywood and the like. I mean us Brits invented everything, including powered flight (Stringfellow) Computers (Bletchley Park) The www (Berners - Lee) and millions more to say nothing of all the sports. They even tried to take credit for cracking the Enigma codes. Bloody disgraceful. All right they might have done the moon thing (not often mind), refined computers a bit with chips but my old Bletchley Park job still does the job okay even if downloading is a bit slow and noisy. I hope this goes someway to offset the incoming mindless abuse that is surely about to cross the pond in my direction Thanks Charles.
At the risk of becoming a bore if I'm not already. We all heartily agree and sympathise with your comments prof. I keep asking everybody why they keep voting for the same braying lunatics and then complaining bitterly when they realise the result of their folly. They always reply 'but I'm a Tory or a Socialist or a Lib' whatever that is (nobody knows including themselves).
Nobody is going to forget the Tolpuddle Martyrs and subsequent heroic groups who stood up for the common worker and paid a heavy price. Some would say the same for some of the great humanitarian Victorian capitalists who provided decent working conditions and housing for their workforce. But we have to move on. There's no place for tribalism in politics now. It's issues that matter. Issues of conscience. Vote accordingly. I happen to believe we waste trillions being part of a corrupt EU there was never a democratic mandate for. I also believe the best manifesto is one which supports our schools,health and public services.To do these things we need decent citizens with NO AXE TO GRIND. which is why I'm voting for Nigel Farage.
On a lighter note think how much worse it would be on elastic purchases. For a start we'd have to cut down on pants, socks and knickers and them stretchy dog leads which would make Xmas impossible. I couldn't contemplate a world of saggy socks,vertically challenged knickers and choking dogs. On top of which we'd have to change the name of our village from Combe St Nicholas to Combe St Knickerless. If it makes you feel any better I emailed Mr Camoron at no 10 yesterday and told him I was seeking legal advice on his slanderous defamation of me and a few million others as a closet racist and looney fruitcake but I don't know whether his minions will pass it on. There is also suddenly a great dearth of human rights lawyers just when you need them.
It all makes for such an interesting life don't you think.
November 27, 2012 4:01 AM
That's stuffed you then. Only a Bletchley Park computer can rub out blogs manually.
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