General Election Poster - Gordon Brown's Death Tax.

General Election Poster - Gordon Brown's Death Tax.


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General Election Poster - Labour Party Funding Explained

From my post in Jan 2008:

Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Alan Duncan is calling for the Union Modernisation Fund to be scrapped. Alan believes that the Unions have Gordon Brown over a barrel, because his party depends so desperately on Union donations. Alan points out that 610,000 working days (20 times last year's number) have been lost this year due to industrial action.

However the government are still giving the unions millions of pounds of the tax payers' money under the guise of the Union Modernisation fund. Some see this as a money laundering scam as the Unions in turn donate millions of pounds to the Labour Party. If the unions are so desperate for tax payer's money, why are they donating millions to the Labour Party?

I agree with Alan, it's well beyond time that this suspect practice was stopped. I do not pay my taxes for a proportion of them to be given to Unions who are financing the Labour Party. Either the Modernisation fund must be scrapped, or the Labour Party must stop taking donations from the Unions.

Labour plan to shaft us with a council tax rise after the Election.

If labour are still in power they plan to shaft us with a council tax rise after the General Election. Shadow Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government, Caroline Spelman Explains:

New evidence emerged today of Labour’s plans for a council tax revaluation after the general election – as the Government were caught red-handed procuring a key council tax revaluation contract to start in June 2010.

Gordon Brown’s council tax inspectors are advertising a £2 million contract to help build up its revaluation property database. This contract replaces one that was originally signed with estate agent property portal, Rightmove, for the postponed 2007 council tax revaluation.

Caroline Spelman MP, the Shadow Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government, said Labour Ministers have been caught red-handed. "This is a tax bombshell – primed to go off after the general election, hitting families and pensioners with soaring council tax bills".

"Labour’s class war politics is all about punishing those who have saved and worked hard with even higher taxes", she said. "This Big Brother contract is yet another sign of how Labour Ministers have no respect for people’s privacy and how they want to snoop inside your home".

Spelman emphasised that the Conservatives would scrap Gordon Brown’s plans for a council tax revaluation and abolish council tax inspectors’ rights of entry into our homes. "We are putting the Government and potential suppliers on notice that a Conservative Government, if elected, will cancel this contract outright", she said.

That is one more very good reason to vote Conservative.

Nick Clegg - Tax shouldn't be taxing - property tax.

Before we start I should set out my position. I don't own a property worth £1m and I probably never will. I'm not some "Tory Toff" - I'm from a council estate in Barnsley and up until the last four years or so I have been a Labour voter. I have always paid tax as I've never been out of work, and like many, I will probably pay tax for the vast majority of my adult life. Bearing that in mind I want to tell you why I find proposals like the Lib Dem's new "Property Tax" so nauseating.

The rich paying extra tax is "fair". That's what I keep hearing form Labour and Lib Dem MPs - "it's fair that the rich pay more" Why? They already pay more tax than the rest of us so why is it "fair" that they pay even more? Why should the government have more claim on the better-offs money than mine? It's not bloody "fair". Fair is everyone working and paying their way. Fair is everyone paying the same percentage of their wages in tax. Even then, the richer you are, the more you give to Gordon Brown.

Labour and Lib Dem MPs realise it is not "fair", but they know that it is a good way to rake in more money, and they also think it is a vote winner with the public at large. I think they are wrong - the politics of envy are dying. I'm not rich, I'm a married man with for four kids and a mortgage to pay. I don't envy the rich, and I don't think it would be "fair" to see them hammered for more tax just because a bunch of lefties and beardy weirdies think that it is "fair". The well off are entitled to the money they earn like the rest of us. Many of those with £1m homes will have bloody great mortgages to pay (or may even be retired) - and the last thing they will want to hear is some idiot like Clegg telling them that it is "fair" that he's going to take even more of their money.

I'm sorry but saying that it is "fair" to tax someone more because they have worked hard to get a good job makes my blood boil. There is nothing "fair" about it. It's called passing laws to 'legally steal' someones money - knowing that you won't lose too many votes (or might even win some). Thank God the Leftie is a dying breed in this country.

Tory cuts or Labour taxes? - take your pick.

Yesterday at PMQs Gordon Brown took great pleasure in crowing about Conservative spending cuts for 2011 onwards. He was jubilant when he pointed out that Andrew Lansley had let "the cat out of the bag" by announcing that the Conservatives would cut spending across most departments by 10% to protect spending on Health. What Brown failed to point out is that these are Labours spending plans adjusted by the Conservatives in favour of Health.

The Government's own figures show that they will be cutting spending across all departments (including health) by 7%. Fraser Nelson gives the details. What Brown did in PMQs yesterday was lie to the house and the nation. By claiming that a Labour Government would increase spending was a blatant lie. Either he knows full well the he is lying to us all, or he is indeed completely delusional. The press have already jumped upon Brown's lies and it looks like he is causing the Labour party further embarrassment.

However, there could be some truth to Brown's claims on spending (shocked?). They may not be cutting spending after all (even though their budget says they are). Cabinet Minister Liam Byrne told BBC Radio 4's programme:

"Between now and 2013/14, public spending will rise by £86bn but if we make a series of very difficult choices on, for example, tax and, for example, on efficiencies, we can halve the budget deficit over the course of five years."

So there you have it. Not only are they going to cut spending (according to their own budget figures), they are also going to increase our taxes to repay the massive amount of debt that they have piled upon the nation. And don't be fooled by the "spending will rise by £86bn" that does not include inflation or interest payment on debts (that's were the 7% cut figure comes from).

So in what form are these Labour tax increases likely to appear? I think we should be told the truth before we are expected to vote in the General Election.

Michael Caine - Labour are like a rotten piece of meat.

Michael Caine has been talking to the Telegraph's Roya Nikkhah. Michael is not pleased with Labour or Gordon Brown. He is most definitely not a fan of their 50% tax.

The Government has taken tax up to 50 per cent, and if it goes to 51, I will be back in America. "I will not pay the Government more than I get. No way, ever. "They've reached their limit with me, and that's what will happen to a lot of people. You know how much they made out of that high taxation all those years ago? Nothing. But they sent a mass of incredible brains to America.

"We've got three-and-a-half million layabouts laying about on benefits, and I'm 76, getting up at 6am to go to work to keep them. Let's get everybody back to work so we can save a couple of billion and cut tax, not keep sticking it on.

"Brown's never been elected by anybody. I'm supposed to be in a country where I get the chance to elect someone and I'm around here at the most dangerous of times led by a man who's never been elected. You've gotta be elected.

"A political party that's in too long is like a piece of meat – if it's there too long it will go rotten and they've gone rotten and they've gotta go."

50% Tax rate - poll results.

Yesterday I asked if David Cameron should oppose the 50% tax rate. Here's the result:

Not a massive turnout, but I would imagine that most of those voting were party members. I would call Brown's bluff on this. The people will see through this cynical tax, just like they did with the Tory Toff campaign.

Vote: Should David Cameron oppose the 50% tax?

Here are my thoughts on the 50% tax on those earning over £150,000. What do you think?

Should David Cameron oppose the 50% tax?
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David Cameron - Oppose the 50% tax rate.

David Cameron should strongly oppose and promise to scrap the 50% tax rate for those earning over £150,000.

It is a typical Labour gimmick and the public are sick of their spin and lies. The 50% tax rate will raise about £1bn, which is less than the increase in fuel duty will raise. Compared to the £600bn Darling is going to borrow over the next four years, the gains from this politically motivated tax hike are a drop in the ocean. Do the public really want to see the country's money makers used has political pawns by Labour? Do they really want to see our highfliers driven abroad?

This is the Tory Toff campaign all over again and I believe the public won't fall for it. In fact I think they will be repulsed by more of Labour's cynical class politics.

UPDATE: I've just had another thought - just watch what this tax rate will do to charity incomes. I'm sure many paying 50% tax will say that they are already doing their bit and stop giving.

(No I don't earn anywhere near £150,000).

Sarkozy has a go at our dozy (Gordon Brown).

Good old Nicholas Sarkozy has had a bit of a go at Gordon Brown's financial prowess (or lack of it). He said:

"Gordon Brown's decision to cut VAT has absolutely not worked. "Cutting VAT by two points doesn't incite people to buy if they are scared about their future. If anything, consumption in Britain has gone down."

And he went on to say France's response would be different from the UK's, because the "English have no industry."

You have to laugh at the spin coming out of No10:

"We saw the news reports last night. They have been in contact. It was not meant as an attack. I will leave it to the Elysée to explain why that is not a criticism.

"We appreciate the context in which the President made those comments, in the context of a domestic French political debate about France's future economic policy."

Not an attack my arse. Just how thick do they think we are? The Telegraph are reporting that Brown and Co are in reality going ape shit.

45p tax - get ready for a mass exodus of high earners.

Apparently Nick Robinson has it on good authority that Gordon Brown (via Alistair Darling) is going to bring in a new higher tax rate of 45p for those earning over £150,000 (after the election of course). What a complete and utter tw*t. I'm not calling him a tw*t because I earn that much - I don't. I'm calling him a tw*t because if he pushes through this idiotic policy, we will see the biggest brain drain this country has ever experienced. Not only that, but those that stay to pay the higher tax won't even make a dent in our massive national debt.

What I want to know is how does Nick Robinson know about this? How do we all know about tomorrows planned VAT cut? These leaks need to be stopped.

Department of Work and Pensions spent £2,024,431 on Taxis last year.

From Hansard written answers:

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies spent on taxis in the last financial year for which figures are available.

Mrs. McGuire: The Department's expenditure on taxis in the last financial year (2007-08) was £2,024,431. This figure includes expenditure on minicab/taxi firms and black cabs. Details of the separate payments made by the Department and its agencies could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

For 228 working days that's £8879/day, or £1110/hour or £18.50/minute - that equates to almost two £10 taxi trips every single working minute. Nice to know that my taxes are not being wasted.

Try out Gordon Brown's calculator from the TaxPayers' Alliance.

Click on Gordon's image to try out his dodgy calculator.

George Osborne - The Uk is losing business to Ireland.

Why oh why are we losing business to the Irish? The simple answer is - corporation tax. Surely it does not take a financial genius like Gordon Brown (joke) to work out that if companies say they are moving from the UK to Ireland because of "concerns over the [UK] tax environment" that we must follow the Irish lead and cut our corporation tax. Corporation tax in Ireland currently stands at 12.5% - which is less than half of the UK's 28%. The "Celtic Tiger" is thought by many economists to be a result (at least in part) of Ireland's low corporation tax.

From the Conservative website:

George Osborne has written to Alistair Darling to urge him to take urgent action to prevent more companies from leaving the UK. Regus, Henderson Group and Charter are all thinking of leaving the UK because of concerns over the tax environment. This follows previous announcements from Shire and United Business Media that they are relocating to Ireland.

George, the Shadow Chancellor, blamed the exodus on the confusion created by Labour's dithering over the business tax regime and the fact that we have some of the highest corporate tax rates in the EU. He called on Darling to adopt our plans to reduce the main rate of corporation tax from 28% to 25% and simply the business tax system: "With companies leaving Britain, weakening an already ailing British economy, I urge you to adopt our proposals in order to restore our competitiveness and help prevent any more companies from deciding to leave the UK."

George Osborne's reaction to postponement of fuel duty rise

Responding to the announcement that the 2p fuel duty rise will be postponed, Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said:

"After months of dithering, Alistair Darling has finally decided to postpone the 2p rise in fuel duty a week before the Glasgow East by-election.

"Instead of short term political fixes, what the government should be doing is adopting our plans for a fair fuel stabiliser so that motorists get automatic relief when the price of oil goes up, rather than relying on the political whims of the Chancellor.

"Now under pressure, he's u-turned on one of his car tax measures, surely it can't be long before he shows his weakness again and backs down on the VED rise on family cars."

Take low earners out of the tax system.

From Hansard this Thursday:

Low Income Households

Sir Peter Viggers: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the amount of tax paid by low income households in the last 12 months.

Jane Kennedy: A single earner family with two children on half male average earnings pays no net tax in 2008-09, as tax credits and child benefit more than offset income tax and national insurance liabilities.

I have to ask: If the millions of people that Jane's answer refers to actually get as much, or more money back from the Government than they are paying in tax in the first place, then why are they paying tax? Surely we are wasting God knows how much money taking tax from these low earners, only to give it back to them in credits. Are they supposed to feel grateful to the government for handouts of their own money? Take them out of the tax system and save us all some money.

Gordon's green (mean) road tax will raise the treasury £1bn.

The government's proposed hike in road tax was claimed by the Prime Minister to be a non revenue raising move. It turns out that this was yet another lie or "Brownie". Treasury minister Angela Eagle admitted that 8.7 million (44%) vehicles, all in the six top-polluting bands - will pay more and that the Exchequer will receive more than £1bn in additional revenue from the scheme by 2011.

George Osborne said:

"This destroys the government's defence that this is a green tax and in general gives green taxes a bad name. "We need the prime minister to tell us whether he knew that he was giving parliament the wrong information and was treating the public like fools, or was it the case that he didn't know the truth about the impact of his own Budget on families?"

AA President Edmund King said: "This is not a green tax but a mean tax that will hit millions of hard-up families."

Why Climate Change Sceptics are doomed to failure.

You could think that the title of this post sounds incredibly defeatist coming from a climate change sceptic. And you'd be right. In a way climate sceptics have to accept defeat. No matter what the weather does, it can be attributed to that elusive Global Warming (It has been missing for 11 years, but we are assured that it is still out there). If we have a wet summer it's all down to Global Warming. If we have a dry summer it's all down to......yes you guessed it..... Global Bloody Warming. No matter how many Global Warming theories are debunked the monster just keeps on growing. No matter what public opinion may be, the monster's momentum is relentless.

Governments are hot for Global Warming as it opens all sorts of new tax possibilities (especially in the UK). There's the increase in road tax on gas guzzlers, road tolls, bin taxes, fines on businesses, air travel tax and landfill tax. Landfill tax is a real money spinner for the government. In 1996 landfill tax was set at £7 per tonne. It is now £32 per tonne and will increase by £8 per tonne each year from April 2009 until at least 2010/11). There's a lot of money to be made out of Global Warming by greedy governments with an eye on our money (£1bn/year from landfill alone - and rising fast).

However, the main reason for an imminent defeat (at least on the argument of whether it is actually happening) for me and other climate change sceptics is this: If the global temperature does eventually go up (no sign yet) then the Global Warming alarmists will be proved right. But more crucially (and here's the irony of it all), if the global temperature fails to climb over say, the next twenty years, then the alarmists will throw their arms up in the air and claim in triumphant voices: "We did it! - we stopped Global Warming!"

That said, I still believe we should and must oppose the alarmists. The more we fight, the harder it will become for governments to pass Green Tax legislation.

Would you volunteer to pay more tax?

There is not much doubt that our next government will be a Conservative one. There is also little doubt that David Cameron will inherit massive public spending and an outrageous amount of debt. Especially if, as some pundits believe, Labour initiate a scorched earth policy.

So to the point: something rather drastic is going to have be done to get the economy back on track. Cutting spending is one option, but as we know Cameron will be pretty much stuck with Labour spending plans. Raising taxes cannot contemplated in the current economical climate. Of course there is a ridiculous amount of waste that can be cut out, which will be George Osborne's first task as Chancellor - along with the rest of our new ministers.

This morning I came up with a radical idea whilst driving to work listening to Radio 5. What if David Cameron asked us to volunteer to pay more tax? I'm not talking about a lot individually, maybe 1, 2 or 3%. To tell the truth I am in no way a wealthy man, however the recent cut in tax from 22% to 20% made very little difference to my wage packet. Obviously there would be the option to opt back out at any time.

What do you think? If enough people were to volunteer, it would benefit the entire nation. Now, I understand this will get a lot of people (who think they pay too much tax already) hot under the collar, but it would be by personal choice only.

There could be incentives to take part, even if it is just the feel good factor. Or maybe financial incentives to be paid out when the economy recovers?

What do you think? Please try not to swear too much in the comments. Obviously I wouldn't volunteer to do this under a Labour government - they'd only blow it on pointless reviews.

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10p tax - See you next year Darling?

OK, Darling has announced his fix for the 10p tax fiasco. This apology patch bribe is welcome news for around 4 million of those ripped off by Darling's first budget. However there are a couple of problems with this fortuitously timed solution (by-election?):

For a start this will cost £2.7bn. Where is it coming from? Darling is going to borrow it. So much for "Tories and their unfunded tax cuts". And we are already in serious debt.

Rather than helping out the 5.3 million people who needed help, everyone earning up to £40,835 will be £120 better off - except, that is, for over a million of the lowest paid.

George Osborne stressed Alistair Darling's announcement was a one-off payment rather than a long-term plan to compensate those hit by the axing of the 10p tax rate.

Let's summarise for those Labour supporting idiots who are crowing about this: Brown and Darling are only responding to their own cock-up. Over a million people are still worse off. If Brown had not been forced to act on this - he would not have. This is a one year fix - what about next year Darling? Or the one after that? Why increase the national debt by £27bn to reduce the tax burden on 16 million of those not hit by the last budget?

Please don't tell me anyone is falling for this arse saving, electioneering, fob off.