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Frank Field not far from this average voter

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Amongst all the talk of what can or can’t be cut, there has been mention of cutting “unnecessary programmes“. Which I certainly haven’t been alone in wondering why we’re spending on anything unnecessary in the first place and why cutting back on waste isn’t just an on going process. Still it’s ever so nice to see the ever erudite Frank Field asking the same thing. I can’t believe I’m different from the average voter. If there are unnecessary programmes what the hell are we doing providing them? (Go read the whole article, you know you want to, he also feels … Continue reading →

bad, mad and buggering up the country?

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Via Anna Racoon a rather thought provoking article from Not born yesterday. As quite a few other people have also done I shall just reproduce the first paragraph: “The Prime Minister of Great Britain is a man too ill to be holding the Office.” This was the conclusion last week of a senior civil servant liaising regularly with Gordon Brown. For reasons which will become clear, the person involved will not go public with the evidence for this conclusion. The same applies to a high-ranking Treasury official who told us “In both a physical and mental sense, the Prime Minister … Continue reading →

No representation without taxation

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Life has been getting in the way of writing, and will probably continue to do so. So expect much of my writing to be quite a bit behind the curve. However that small matter not with standing a while back I read an interesting comment from a Labour MP (Martin Linton) as report by the good old BBC “If they don’t pay our taxes, why should they have any right in determining what those taxes are?” Which I suspect is something we can all heartily agree with, particularly with regards to the 646 such people that seem to quite enjoy … Continue reading →