As if we needed another reason
Since 1997 Nu Labour has trampled all over our ancient freedoms & institutions but when it suits their own self serving duplicitous purposes...
MPs are trying to block a police probe into their expenses. A group of Labour members is understood to have warned Scotland Yard that an inquiry could breach their right of parliamentary privilege. Senior Labour sources have revealed that some MPs have consulted lawyers on whether the ancient right could be used to shield their expenses from outside investigation.
After all of this time, the only rational conclusion is to slaughter their families’, burn their homes to the ground & plough salt into the gardens. Only then might our perfidious political class start to comprehend where the overwhelming majority of stout bulldogs stand in this issue ... at about the same moment as the well oiled rope is slipped around the neck & the stool is kicked away
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Frank Field wrote in his blog:
Imagine that you have been driving, perfectly legally, through
a 30 mile an hour zone at a speed of 25 mph. Imagine then your
reaction when, five years later, you receive multiple fines as
a decision has been taken to change, retrospectively, the speed
limit to 20.
That's funny, 'cos he didn't squawk when the government removed the tax
rebate on pensions dividend - thereby changing things after the fact
for millions in the UK.
Nor did he squeak about the Finance Bill (2002/3?) which sought to
apply tax retrospectively to legal transactions dating back to 1986?
I don't recall any fuss from him about the punitive taxing of older
family cars which were bought in good faith back to 2001?
Did he vote for the Finance Act (2007?) which swept away previous CGT
allowances and replaced them with a new level CGT which for many
changed the basis on which they owned property and thereby drastically
increased their CGT?
Truly it is one rule for them and screw the rest of us....
Posted by: Ballibeg | October 19, 2009 11:26 AM
Frank Field wrote in his blog:
Imagine that you have been driving, perfectly legally, through
a 30 mile an hour zone at a speed of 25 mph. Imagine then your
reaction when, five years later, you receive multiple fines as
a decision has been taken to change, retrospectively, the speed
limit to 20.
That's funny, 'cos he didn't squawk when the government removed the tax
rebate on pensions dividend - thereby changing things after the fact
for millions in the UK.
Nor did he squeak about the Finance Bill (2002/3?) which sought to
apply tax retrospectively to legal transactions dating back to 1986?
I don't recall any fuss from him about the punitive taxing of older
family cars which were bought in good faith back to 2001?
Did he vote for the Finance Act (2007?) which swept away previous CGT
allowances and replaced them with a new level CGT which for many
changed the basis on which they owned property and thereby drastically
increased their CGT?
Truly it is one rule for them and screw the rest of us....
Posted by: Ballibeg | October 19, 2009 11:26 AM
How true Ballibeg. Labour brought in the pensions 'stealth tax' in as soon as they came to power in '97, Gordon Brown (as Chancellor) having kept the details in a safe at no 11 until after the election.
As I know only too well many companies have closed down their final salary pensions as a result. Of course civil servants haven't been affected & in fact have had their numbers increased, even during the recession - the government being cynicaly aware that most public sector workers vote Labour.
Mr FM's rope is too good for 'em-broken on the wheel would be more appropriate for the scum.
Posted by: Ed | October 19, 2009 12:15 PM
How true Ballibeg. Labour brought in the pensions 'stealth tax' in as soon as they came to power in '97, Gordon Brown (as Chancellor) having kept the details in a safe at no 11 until after the election.
As I know only too well many companies have closed down their final salary pensions as a result. Of course civil servants haven't been affected & in fact have had their numbers increased, even during the recession - the government being cynicaly aware that most public sector workers vote Labour.
Mr FM's rope is too good for 'em-broken on the wheel would be more appropriate for the scum.
Posted by: Ed | October 19, 2009 12:15 PM
Ed, that's a nice addition, but you have left out the part about the resulting quarters being posted from Land's End to John o'Groats.
You're not done until you have finished.
Posted by: comatus | October 19, 2009 1:27 PM
The only thing to say to people like that is, Rope, Tree, Politician, some assembly required. of course for those who live in an urban enviroment the replacement of tree with Lamppost is allowed.
Posted by: korblimee | October 31, 2009 11:44 PM