Move Over Darling
There is consensus in the Grot. This bloody chancellor hasn’t made a good start. We are almost alone in the western world in facing an ever-greater tax burden. Yet still we borrow.
There will almost certainly be a greater devil in the detail yet to be made public. Perhaps I am being overly pessimistic there, but I doubt it.
For sure the headline grabbers tonight are the usual easy targets. Does anybody really think that money on booze, and fags are intended to do anything other than fill the coffers? Will the heavy drinkers and smokers be priced out of their anti-social behaviours? Don’t be daft.
Hard drugs look ever more attractive as the price drops in relation to the established sins. Dealers have relatively few overheads. Pubs may be driven out of business by this Government, but the darker arts are thriving.
Talk to me Mr Darling about your 2% inflation figure. All of the things that working people have to spend money on are climbing at a much higher rate. Forget the booze and fags. My inflation is caused by community charge, insurance, fuel costs, heating and lighting. Two percent, my arse!
And do you know what really irritates my farmers? Watching you and Brown chuckling through the responses in the place where you are meant to represent, as well as lead us. Taking not a jot of notice you display an arrogance, and disregard for the electorate, that is quite breathtaking.
How I wish I had a labour party to vote for.
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Blazing Saddles. Great film, terrible side effect.
It is fair to say that lots of things give me and mine a pain in the derriere. This is the vent I need to release some of that angst.
Except of course on days when nothing at all is nagging at me. Then I may just settle for a humorous look at what tickles me, and introduce you to some of the people who mean a lot to me.
Feel free to mooch around, leave a comment, subscribe to the nonsense. Nothing is taboo on here. Well not yet, anyway. Most of all, enjoy.
The idea of a high alcohol tax is to stop the teenage binge drinkers, but they have got the money to to pay any price asked from their “benefits” etc.
The people who are going to suffer are the old age pensioners who are on a low income and just enjoy a pint or two of beer at the local pub.
Why is it that the elderly, the sick, the unemployed, and the homeless always suffer the most at budget time while the rich get richer?
Spot on Keith. They are doing nothing to confront the epidemic of binge drinking. As you say it is those who do not partake in those excesses that are being driven from our pubs, which will become as endangered a species as post offices before long.