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Crisis budget is about saving Brown not the economy

Monday, 24 November 2008 08:01

Make no mistake, this crisis budget is about Gordon Brown's re-election and nothing to do with the economy. This is nothing more than a blatant attempt to bribe the electors. But at the back of it is the promise that taxes will rise. Those with any nouse don't need to be told that.

With government borrowing at around 100 billion pounds taxes have got to rise. The government does not have any money, all it has is the ability to tax us. That ability will be used brutally and relentlessly. Those who are old enough to remember previous Labour governments know it, and are shouting it from the rooftops, but a younger generation of politicians on the Conservative side does not seem to be shouting.

Those with the memories recall Dennis Healey and his oft quoted phrase about taxing "until the pips squeak" and those pips really did squeak. The income tax rate was 35%, that's not a misprint, it was 35%. It took a long time for later Conservative governments to reduce it and get the country back on track. While this was happening most of the current generation of politicians were in short trousers and shielded from it all. They need to read some recent history.

A VAT cut would be nice, but are we really going to pour into the shops and burden ourselves with debt or spend what we have to save a small amount when we can already get deals like Tesco's half price wine PLUS 25% off the discounted price in Tesco points? or M & S's 20% off everything?

Reductions like these are huge, and they are not causing queues at the doors before opening, so Brown's vote buying is hardly likely to succeed.

 

Data losses worse than previously admitted

Friday, 22 August 2008 05:10

Previously we have reported on government data losses, highlighting the fact that your personal and private information is not safe with the government no matter what they say.

Now, the government has been forced to admit that even their own figures were wildy inaccurate and the extent of their failure to handle data is even worse. About twice as bad in fact.

How can we have any faith in their ability to run and identity card scheme or prevent misuse of information within government. After all, what we are seeing here is only the tip of the iceberg. We are not being told about all the occasions when information collected for one purpose is accessed by other people for different purposes. The only solution is to scrap the id card scheme immediately and also things like biometric passports that were only introduced to keep the US happy.

Read more about the huge scale of government loss.

 

Prince Charles doesn't need justification for his Genetically Modified Crops stance

Sunday, 17 August 2008 09:26

Environment Minister Phil Woolas thinks and says that Prince Charles should prove his assertions that GM crops are a possible environmental disaster. Phil Woolas should look to the record of politicians in general and realise that they never prove anything, all politicians mutter is their views without ever proving anything.

It's an example of Chard's Law which states that the more important a decision is, the less justification is needed for it.

Take for example an office worker wanting to spend a few pounds at work for some equipment or stationery that would make their job easier. They will have to go through supervisors and managers and justify the spending.

Now consider the decision to take the UK into a war in Iraq or Afghanistan, we're in there on the prime minister's whim, no forms to fill in, no budget constraints.

Like the law says, the more important the decision the less justification, and where politicians are making those decisions it's just down to what they think.

So Phil Woolas needs to sort out his own house and prove that GM crops are no threat or danger before attacking someone who will be remembered throughout history when the likes of him have been long forgotten.

   

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