Thursday, December 07, 2006

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?

3 comments:

James said...

Hey Ash, first of all, I've gotta apologise for ignoring your e-mail. I've been exceedingly busy, as Mr Kipling would say. But I'll make it my highest of priorites to reply soon!

Cameron probably is going to get into power at the next election, but that's because elections are pretty much little more than personality contests. And that aloof, apathetic Gordon Brown isn't going to win any Mr Engaging awards any time soon (although to be fair to him, that's more than likely because there aren't any!)

I don't think Dave is un-conservative though; but that's probably because I'm a dirty lefty! I thought that his invitation to "hug a hoodie", which was much ridiculed, was one of his more sensible proposals!

I don't think that we need air tax; but we do need something. Maybe we could have a rather facistic two annual flights maximum policy. But that's easy for me to say, with me flying to Florida in a week (which is probably something like the 4th time I've been on a plane this year).

Ciao!

James said...

Ash! It's me again. You knew it would happen; I knew it would happen; I have a new blog! To go with my new e-mail address.

Just go to my old one, there's a link on there if you want to check it out. Anyway I'll talk to you soon on MSN or something. Chowder!

Jingo said...

DoE... I just missed out on a place.

Nice blog. Keep it up.