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?