Look Mum No Hands
This must be the only cycling cafe in London.
The gluten-free cake was nice too. Even if the weather outside was appalling.
The cafe was very busy. It had a buzz about it too. Everybody was watching the cycling in Spain on a big screen.
Can We Trust Anything Nick Clegg Says?
Did Nick Clegg know the hornet’s nest he’d stir up by his temporary tax on the rich?
If he didn’t then he must be rather stupid and can we trust anything else he says?
But then politicians in this country, are often pilloried for simple statements. Remember, Norman Tebbit and getting on your bike and Harold Wilson on the pound in your pocket.
If we need to raise more money there are other ways to do it.
For instance, you could put a black box in every car and charge per mile. The Dutch government proposed this and promptly lost an election.
The only true statement is that from Dieter Helm, who said “Ministers who try to pick winners should remember that losers tend to pick governments.”
I wonder how many bright brains and successful companies are rethinking their future because of Nick Clegg’s statements.
Let’s say you are a small hi-tech Internet-based company, writing say apps for smart-phones. You can do this anywhere in the world, so perhaps if you fancied working in say Barbados, you might go.
If Nick Clegg had kept quiet, he wouldn’t have given anybody the idea to go.
Politicians seem to forget that most of our successful developments could be done from anywhere. They should make sure that they don’t encourage people to relocate. Except of course to the UK.
Nick Clegg Loses The Plot
Nick Clegg’s call for the rich to pay more tax is just plain daft.
One large group of the rich are probably people like me, who are retired and have a good pension pot built up over the years.
So if I was asked to pay more tax, I’d probably leave the money in my pension fund to avoid the tax and then not spend it. After all, I may have bought a new washer-dryer, but my large purchases these days are few and far between. So how does that benefit the country?
After I sold my first company in 1972, I had an offer from a large American company to go and work for them, at an enormous salary. If we increase taxes, all of those brains thinking up new ideas, will be on the first plane out.
No wonder we need a new runway in the South East.
Elvis’s Underpants Go On Sale
According to this article on the BBC, they should make about ten grand. And they haven’t even been washed!
As the stain is at the front, perhaps some fiendish scientist will recreate his sperm and sell it to silly women all over the world.
You do wonder how many women, who saw Elvis, are still of child-bearing age.
The Anonymous Widower 