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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 →

Here comes the new system same as the old system

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I read about this in one of the free rags on my way home but don’t tend to trust those, but having now read it in the Telegraph it does in fact seem that the great answer to the problem of this terrible system which caused all of the trouble is…. a quango! of unelected unaccountable “independent regulators”! Independent regulators having worked so well in so many other fields, and wasn’t the fees office supposed to be independent? How can a government appointed regulator be any more independent than some nameless civil servants? The speaker is to be made purely … Continue reading →

Not getting it

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Apart from a desire to find out just which of our MPs are corrupt or inept we must surely be reaching the point where everything that needs to be said has been said. Though much which needs to be done is still to be done. The most common excuses seem to be that either things “were within the rules” or where down to “honest mistakes”, as it’s terribly easy to forget when you’ve paid off a mortgage, or forget to only claim for the interest part of your mortgage. Given that the “rules” apparently state that all claims must be … Continue reading →