Hagley Road To Ladywood: Queen’s Speech and the “biggest shake up”
“In Britain”, Gordon Brown said yesterday, there could never be “one rule for some and another rule for others”. Good, isn’t it?
But Brown wasn’t talking about the country’s feudal structures. He wasn’t on about Prince Charles and his untaxed £16 million income from the Duchy of Cornwall. Nor was the Prime Minister referring to Britain’s annual £25bn lost from tax avoidance (according to the Observer, the sum would be “enough money to increase old-age pensions by 20 per cent”). How about Britain hosting 35 tax havens out of a world total of 70? And would the Prime Minister do whatever it takes to stop billionaires like Mohammed al-Fayed “negotiating the amount of tax he paid with the Inland Revenue”?
No. Not a word about all that.
Posted on December 4th, 2008 at 12:36pm under Evil of banality, Eye Catching Initiatives, New Labour
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[...] Hat Tip: Chicken Yoghurt. [...]
This is a follow up: Why the new crackdown on benefits will put off thousands of genuine applicants.
http://mymarilyn.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-own-encounter-with-benefit-system.html