Gordo to raise income tax 2p

[expat]

If it's on the market I'll buy it - If it means another penny on the income-tax.

-- Sherlock holmes, The Adventure of the Second stain.

What is remarkable (apart from the fact that the dog did nothing in the night-time) is that this was supposed to be a nigh-on unbelievable sign of how strongly the government backed Holmes in this matter of vital national importance; a penny on the income-tax being almost unimaginable. And it was an "old" penny - 1/240 of a pound, for those who don't know.

[mcquiggd]

There is something seriously mad with nu labour.... not enough cash for UK hospitals, not enough cash to pay public sector pensions, people dying from the cold as they cant afford heating bills, transport infrastructure in shambles, talk of people having to work into their 70s to make ends meet.


So lets ship £8,500,000,000 abroad. Fecking lunatics.

[xoggoth]

Without insistence on population control all such aid is pointless.

[Fungus]

Is it just me, or does Flash Gordon sound more and more pompous, smug and messianic as the days roll by? I can't abide the creep.

[NoddY]

This government is unable to delimit its area of responsibility properly. We're to help out Poland and the Eastern Bloc, sub-Saharan Africa, parts of the Middle East, Afganistan, the Indian sub-continent...

I have a feeling the mentality at work in the heart of government is that there is 'us' = 'the big people running it' and 'them' = 'all the little people'. The British public falls into the latter category along with our comrades in Burkino Faso etc.

[wendigo100]

I wonder where he gets the idea from that we are a 'rich' nation. He can't afford to run the NHS but he's managed to scrape together a £15 billion package for overseas schools? Can't help thinking that he hasn't really got his priorities right - either that or he can't add up

Gordon Brown is bidding to take over from Tony Blair as World Saviour, and he doesn't care how much it costs (the taxpayer). Expect more of this sh1te.

[John Galt]

I wonder where he gets the idea from that we are a 'rich' nation. He can't afford to run the NHS but he's managed to scrape together a £15 billion package for overseas schools? Can't help thinking that he hasn't really got his priorities right - either that or he can't add up

[wendigo100]

Nice. I know I promised not to put up income tax, but it's not for me...

[MrsGoof]

at 30 per class thats 3.3 million teachers
say 40 teachers per school thats 80,000 schools

and all for only 2pence


Bargain.

[aders]

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