Strikes

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Why not remove VAT on hot take-away food and household fuel and have differential VAT rates for luxury goods, e.g. 80% for top-end sports cars (still pocket money for footballers and executives)? Having differential rates would better reflect people's ability to pay and redistribute the burden of indirect taxation in a similar way to direct taxation.

We used to have that. It was called Purchase Tax. Fairer than VAT in principle, but it seemed wrong that classical LPs were highly taxed and top-shelf magazines were not.

[anotherbob]

If you wanted to revive the anti-union hysteria so successfully promoted by Thatcher what could serve you better than suggesting that because of the threat of a tanker-driver strike you might like to fill up wth fuel whenever you can (no pun intended)

[teamsaint]

more or less everything that that happens is planned or allowed by those at the top.

and diversion is everything.
Every daft b****er queuing an hour for petrol that they don't need is one lest prole thinking about the avaricious sods that run our lives, and how they do it.
One less person thinking about the arms trade.
One less person thinking about the insane wars we are embroiled in.
One less person wondering about why the banks are running all our lives.
One less person thinking about why the NHS is being flogged to the yanks.

And so on.....

(PS anyone got a spare can of juice for sale so I can get to the footy ? will pay £6 a gallon, !)

[Lateralthinking1]

But then again, Louise Casey 'solved' street homelessness, didn't she?

Wasn't she a czar? What happened to all the czars? Are they just very quiet now and still being paid for by us?

[amateur51]

Wasn't she a czar? What happened to all the czars? Are they just very quiet now and still being paid for by us?

Oh she was the Homelessness Czar first, then the Community Anti-Social Behaviour/ASBO Czar, then the Respect Czar, then the Victims Commissioner, and now she's the Riot Czar (I think)

Czar she blows

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

If you wanted to revive the anti-union hysteria so successfully promoted by Thatcher what could serve you better than suggesting that because of the threat of a tanker-driver strike you might like to fill up wth fuel whenever you can (no pun intended)

Hearing cabinet ministers whipping up anti-union histeria has only one effect on me: it makes me sympathise with the workers, even though I detest juggernauts.

[Lateralthinking1]

Oh she was the Homelessness Czar first, then the Community Anti-Social Behaviour/ASBO Czar, then the Respect Czar, then the Victims Commissioner, and now she's the Riot Czar (I think) Czar she blows

Has the Coalition Government appointed its £142,000 Twitter Tsar yet?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13011445

"Ts" rather than "Cz" because it will need to be a Tory Sympathiser rather than one of the Commiez.

[Lateralthinking1]

........George Galloway (Respect) wins Bradford by-election.

[Lateralthinking1]

Massive!

Respect 18,341 (+52.8%)
Labour 8,201 (-20.3%)
Conservative 2,746 (-22.7%)
Lib Dem 1,505 (-7.1%)
UKIP 1,085 (+1.3%)
Green 481 (-0.8%)
Democratic Nationalists 341 (-0.1%)
Monster Raving Loony 111 (N/A)

Turnout - 50.78%
Swing - 36.59%

[Bryn]

Massive!

...

Swing - 36.59%

One does not need to like or admire the guy to offer Respect!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

When I first read about this, I thought it was an early April Fool.

[Frances_iom]

When I first read about this, I thought it was an early April Fool.

Harriet Harman got it right "Sitting here in London" just about sums it up for those away from power - more importantly I suspect judging from the you-gov report as report we are yet nearer to a corporatist state

[Flosshilde]

Extreme editing, when this -

"I defend anyone who is misquoted or deliberately misunderstood
....... but apparently this subject is off-topic, so perhaps we should leave it there."

Becomes this -

which buffoon ?

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[mercia]

what is editing for if not to edit ?
I've also been told not to delete messages, in which case what is the delete message facility for, I wonder.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Mr Galloway has managed that twice now as well as his formidable performance in front of the US Senate Cttee ... blimey no one saw that coming eh!