Born FREE...Taxed To DEATH!

Well it was that time of year again, when the chancellor Gordon Brown gives his report on what he is planning on doing with the tax payers money. He gave the pre-budget speech on wednesday afternoon and it was probably his last as the chancellor and boy you could tell. He was already assuming the position of the PM by talking about schools and way way into the future. Failed to mention the crisis in the NHS though!

And if you ever listen to a debate or speech in the house of commons you'll hear that familiar all time classic 'baaing' sound. You might aswell be in a field on a Duke of Edinburgh expedition somewhere in north yorkshire! Some quite rightly said that his speech was without direction and was a man without a plan (excuse the pun). By the way just to give you some kind of scale as to how long the labour party have been in power, this was Mr. Brown's 10th pre-budget report! Some say we are coming to the end of a legacy and come election time we are going to see people voting in the young David Cameron and his radical-some would say un-conservative ideas. He has been scrutinised by his own party over some of the things he says.

But back to the report on wednesday, he is introduced some green taxes namely on airtravel. Just as air transport is cheaper than ever he brings in an extra tax to raise £1bn, but do we need it and were is the money going? Into his pension?

Back to Politics

Well its all over the news now isn't it, GLOBAL WARMING, RISING SEA LEVELS. We all have to act now. Well lets stike up a bit of contrversy and say i think rising sea levels caused by Human activity are a load of rubbish. Sea levels have been rising for thousands of year, beacause were still recovering from the last ice age! and some people are saying were ready to go into the next ice age-well that jus contradicts everything. Anyway if you don't believe me jus search polar ice cores into google and you'll get the evidence for rising sea levels. The earth maybe warming but its more naturally than manmade-the only bad thing that has happend was the depletion of the ozone layer but even that is now recovering and will be back to full strength within the next decade. It is something to worry about but the media give it too much hype.Another more annoying thing the press go on about is coastal erosion. The G2 newspaper (smaller more managable Gaurdian paper) said that Britain is getting smaller by the day, for the first time ever we need to protect our coasts now. Well the sea has been attacking britains coastline for millions of years and the coastline has been retreating for millions of years-you only have to look at the stacks down on the heritage coast in dorset for that. Or the medevil villages that are now under water along with the land they were sitting on.


HELP OUR VILLAGES ARE FALLING INTO THE SEA!-well dont build em there then! And the coastal defences will only have a detremental effect, down the coast on a another settlement. But the media fail to mention the sea has been coming in for a very long time, they want to sell papers people don't buy newspapers to be reassured they want to buy them to be sacred. People pay to be scared everywhere you go, horror films at the cinema, Ghost train at alton tower or any thrill ride. Its the same.

Well thats all for now folks
AsH

Show Yourself

As i was browsing through the site visitors i came across an unsuspecting international reader. Running google in california, well i'd like to say HI! and leave a comment so i know who you are. I'll have to rethink my posting logistics now! And put some topics that you internationals can understand too like the £112 below to you would be about $220. Anyways please whoever you are SHOW YOURSELF! and leave a comment. Thanks.

We need a greenbelt so we can see orions belt!

Since moving to my new home in leicester i discovered that we have to pay a charge to the crownies who are supposed to maintain the greenbelt. They call it the maintanance for lanscaping and maintaining the area. £112 bloody quid per 'period'! Whats that, when the Managing Directors wife starts her menstrual cycle he says RIGHT! time to send out the bills for £112 now. Its ridiculous and for what, all ive seen the amatuer garders do is cut the grass around the area and im not talkin peoples lawns either! I thought council tax paid for that, well it did in manchester! For £112 i'd expect em to cut the front and back lawn and trim the hedge!
Greenbelt-thats exactly wat it is (£) GR££N (£).


Infact the guy who sold us our house-a Bellway crownie made it sound like they were gonna take care of the hedge aswell seen as bellway planted it and we are required by law to keep it there at least for a few years (in others words until its grown and established and becomes too much hasle to uproot from the ground). All in the name of the environment eh! Well if the governement cares so much for the environment and for this country they would put less into there salary and more into the actual running of the country and keeping it clean. A real politian would be a poor one thats what i say. I mean really does prescott need two Jags(the two shags is another story)? 1 would suffice, he doesn't need to start a fleet.
Even if Blair hadn't held Bush's hand half way to WWIII we would have enough money not to charge another tax for 'taking care of the environment'.

Hello One and All

Well i have to say i like, googles response to MSN spaces. This blogging site is a lot better. As a newbie id like to say that this blog is going to be a lot better and funkier than my other blog. So for my first topic...