Tuesday, Nov 25, 2008
Whoops!
Telegraph: Pre-Budget report: Secret plan for VAT increase to 18.5 per cent
Ministers have drawn up secret plans to increase VAT to 18.5 per cent after the next election.
Labour sneakiness...
Posted by tyrellcorporation @ 09:43 PM (473 views) Add Comment
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1. fjcruiser said...
you beat me to it.
2. planning4acrash said...
It would disproportionately reduce sales and reduce tax take. Total madness. Government know this. They are hell bent on destroying the middle class. This is a class war. Once the middle class is out of the way, they'll go for the exposed working class.
3. renting2 said...
If I were them I wouldn't be making any plans quite yet for post the next election. Unless of course they think the sheople will fall for their shambolic economic repair actions.
4. fjcruiser said...
so NU labour are nouveaux-riches then ?
5. plato said...
I can tell you with absolute certainty that this government will lose the next election big time,unless they reimberse all the working and retired people that have lost a good proportion of their personal wealth during Brown's reign. (and yes I'm an absolute VI in this case).
6. tyrellcorporation said...
Brown is after one thing and one thing only - a mandate from the people. This way he can credibly claim to be a Prime Minister. Everything will be done to make this so, so expect some outrageous lies, bailouts, bribes and deceit over the next 12-18 months. The yawning cracks in the UKs finances will engulf Labour and leave the Conservatives with the biggest ticking fiscal bomb in our country's history. Cameron must be wondering whether to throw in the towel now.
7. Panda said...
I watched Spooks last night and shuddered with sympathy at poor Harry Pearce's treatment. Sometimes, after reading this article, certainly, for a short moment, I find myself wishing great ill on those who would claim to have our interests at heart. I think that there will be an increassing body of opinion that the Russians would, all things considered, be somewhat more patriotic and pro-British than our lot.
How many people, just out of interest, identified the words "Oh my country, so fair, and so wretched" (In German, Faust, Gounod) in the music that Harry was listening to before the SAS came crashing through the windows?
Be honest now.
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9. last_days_of_disco said...
I really think the Labour party knows that they are stuffed. Are they going to go quietly or are they going to try to destroy this country even more in a hissy fit. That is the big question. Can we stop them from doing that, that is the scary question.
10. guiriduro said...
It's a cruel irony that the only credible candidates for stewardship of the economy - Vince Cable & crew - are unelectable because so-called British democracy rests on a ping pong match between pot and kettle. Mind you, the electorate gets what it deserves, I guess between the nanny statist bureaucrats and the revolting I'm alright jack loadsamoney toffs, Britain is fairly well represented - useless electorate useless government. Sod you all - I live abroad, in the EU, which you hate (due to envy.) In a country that makes almost as many rules as Labour (they are bureaucrats) but with the good sense not to follow them (the bureaucrats do what they do, but are ignored. Everyone is happy.) That's what's wonderful about the EU. Useless tits in offices writing risible paper control fantasies, sensible masses in cafes drinking coffee, letting them get on with it while completely ignoring them. Upper class stays on its yachts and knows better than to open its unwelcome mouth for fear of Mme Guillotine, similarly the BNP equivalents spout their xenophobic claptrap for the general entertainment of the thinking classes, who remind themselves how much better than such neanderthals they are. Sadly, in Britain you take everything so seriously. Robert Kilroy Silk was once a conservative MP! In the rest of the EU he's an orange joke. I'm no longer a Brit, I consider myself a European - that's evolution. Let me know when the rest of you are ready to join.
BTW the eurozone won't tear itself apart over monetary policy disparities - like a small dog, Sarkozy is more bark than bite, something to do with compensating a diminutive stature, Napoleon and all that. No, the rest of us are happy watching the glorious anglo-saxon economic model fail miserably. We barely make more in salary than we will receive in benefits should we become unemployed in a real recession, and I for one could do without the commute. But if the euro failed we might actually have to work for a living, so they won't let that happen. Not least because it takes 5 years and 2 failed referendums to not make a decision.