U-turn

The BBC reports here that :-
Pensioners and young people who have lost money as a result of the abolition of the 10p tax rate are to be given compensation, Alistair Darling says.
In what will be seen as a U-turn forced by Labour rebels, the chancellor said he would assess the loss to pensioners aged [...]

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Includipedia

Cabalamat over at Amused Cynicism has detailed some of his goals for the inclusionist fork of Wikipedia here.
I’ve never even thought about putting anything on Wikipedia or editing any of the existing articles, why should I when someone can remove my work without so much as a by-your-leave.

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10p tax rate – was deliberate policy.

Alaistair Darling, the Chancellor has now admitted that “Of course you know when you make any changes to the tax what the effects will be,” so the removal of the 10p tax rate was deliberate policy.
That it was deliberate policy is obvious to even the most dim witted ameba. The Treasury employs well over [...]

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Funding the abolition of Income Tax

It is Libertarian Party policy to abolish Income Tax.
How can this be done? What can be cut?
Firstly, let’s find out what people earn, and how much tax they pay. Purely as a matter of interest.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/P … vlnk=15050
2007 Annual survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) Table 1.1a gives mean and median averages.
http://www.berr.gov.uk/employment/pay/n … index.html
(£5.73/hour from 1st [...]

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The Police are corrupt.

Many years ago I used to be a Police Officer.
So it was with interst that I read on the BBC today that the Police deny massageing the crime figures. Even during my time in the Met we were told to reclassify attempted burglaries as criminal damage in order to bring the burglary figures down. This [...]

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MP ‘to quit government over tax’

The BBC are reporting here that Angela Smith, parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Yvette Cooper is going to resign.
Why has Angela Smith waited a full year before taking this decision? After all, the tax increase was part of last years budget, what took her so long to follow her [...]

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Some people don’t like competition

Here is a quote from Milton Friedman.

The justification offered is always the same: to protect the consumer. However, the reason is demonstrated by observing who lobbies at the state legislature for the imposition or strengthening of licensure. The lobbyists are invariably representatives of the occupation in question rather than of the customers. True enough, plumbers [...]

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Gordon Brown lies again…or does he!!!!

Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister has just blamed the Conservatives for the sale of 200 tons of gold at firesale prices.
Let’s not forget that at the time Brown himself was the chancellor, so why is he blaming the tories? Why is he lying in such an obvious manner.
I don’t think he is lying, he is [...]

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Hazel Blears is stupid

I heard Hazel Blears the Culture Sec on BBC radio 4 this morning. She said the govt was facing some difficult choices over the economy.
I quite agree Hazel, it must be very difficult to decide to give people on the minimum wage of £12,000 a year a tax rise by scrapping the 10pence tax rate [...]

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More figures on abolishing Income Tax

How to fund the abolition of £150bn Income Tax.
1.Dept for International Development
2006/7 Budget £4,923mn, also £1,867mn in non-DFID debt relief and £698mn in other non-DFID debt relief. http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/sid2007/section2.asp
2006/7 DFID admin budget £234mn http://www.dfid.gov.uk/aboutdfid/statistics.asp
DFID assets £2,596mn
I think it’s reasonable to include the non-DFID debt relief as it shows the voters just how much this sort [...]

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French Nuclear success

From Depleted Cranium  (for the original with sources).

In the late 1970’s France decided to go nuclear in a big way. They have done very very well by committing to nuclear energy and doing the job right at every level.

Public opinion in France is quite rightly behind nuclear energy. More than 70% of the population [...]

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Proof EU tramples on democracy

This is unbeleivable.
The Government has hatched an elaborate plan to deceive voters over the forthcoming EU treaty referendum, the Irish Daily Mail can today reveal. A leaked email shows that ministers are planning a deliberate campaign of misinformation to ensure the treaty vote is passed when it is put to the public as required by [...]

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Polly destroys the Labour party

The Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee has an interesting article here.
As usual she fails to see the point.
The Swedes (and the UK at the next GE) are fed up with confiscatory levels of taxation and a hectoring nannyish approach from the govt.
That’s the problem.
It’s not the case that the Tories or their Swedish equivilants actually won [...]

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Chinese stormtroopers at Downing Street

I’m speechless.
Did anyone else watch the disgusting spectacle of the olympic torch being paraded around the streets of London by vacuous micro celebrities surrounded by Chinese stormtroopers.
The British police deploying mob-handed to protect a Chinese propaganda stunt that has its origins in Nazi Germany?
A propaganda stunt that is perpetuated at the insistence of the IOC, [...]

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Unbiased BBC?

The BBC is meant to be unbiased.
But is it.
This is an interesting list I got from the comments section here.
Chairman Gavin Davies (later Labour adviser)
Chairman Sir Michael Lyons (previously Labour council chief)
Director General John Birt (later Labour adviser)
Director General Greg Dyke (previously Labour donor and candidate)
C.O.O Caroline Thomson (previously Roy Jenkin’s aide)
Head of Political Research [...]

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