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 Price Of Wheat
The BBC is reporting that the price of wheat is going up, due to the bad weather.
Do I care?
Not really! As wheat and its dreaded gluten are a poison to me.
God Gives Her Verdict On Romney
It would appear that God is throwing everything she can at Tampa to try to stop the Republican Convention picking Mormon Mitt as their Presidential candidate. Read all about it here.
Those Exam Results
Rod Liddle in The Sunday Times says what all of us have been thinking about the GCSE results. They can’t go on rising without any visible means of support for ever.
After all teachers like results to improve as it makes them look good and if they get worse, then teachers look bad. It is better that kids find out they’re not the new Jane Austen or Stephen Hawkins at school, where hopefully teachers can do something about it.
It probably why understanding of statistics is so bad in this country, the first set they come across are massaged in their and their teachers favour.
What Right Has This Man To Condemn Gay Marriage?
Cardinal O’Brien is getting all Catholic churches in Scotland to read out an anti-gay marriage letter. He must be going very near the anti-discrimination legislation, so he might find that he gets interviewed by the boys in blue. And I don’t mean Rangers supporters.
In a way, it’s all rather sad, as he is effectively saying that we don’t want certain types of people in the Catholic church. To some religion is important. Not me I hasten to add. But it has caused so much trouble in this world and still does.
In my view, churchmen and other religious leaders should stay out of areas like race and sexuality. And probably politics and football too, except as voters and supporters! Except of course, when they are trying to calm a difficult situation. Here he’s pouring petrol on the fire!
I would also say, that can anybody who has never been married, make a sensible statement, about the joy that relationship can bring.
Farewell Neil Armstrong
It’s all very sad that he’s passed away, but then we all have to go at some time.
Our eldest son was born in the Middlesex Hospital in London, as they left for the moon and was in the births column of The Times on the day they landed. I still have a copy of the paper.
The strange thing was that from the time our son was born to the time they landed on the moon, no babies were born. But when they landed all hell broke loose and they came one after another. Everybody had more exciting things to watch, than give birth.
I remember they asked a mother, if her baby born just after the landing would be called Neil. She said no! He’s being called Paul.
Today would also have been C’s sixty-fourth birthday. But tomorrow is also our middle son’s forty-second.
If Scotland Votes For Independence, Where Do Orkney And Shetland Go?
Only now, with the referendum on Scottish Independence now being seen on the horizon, do people start to think about the real problems of the vote and what happens afterwards.
This article in the Guardian lays out the problems of the northern islands. This quote is given.
All the Shetland ever got from Scotland was dear meal and greedy ministers.
It may be true and I have heard something similar all over Suffolk, as people always feel that other areas of the UK get better treatment. In Suffolk’s case that usually means Norfolk.
Somehow, we must find a better way to spend taxes all over the UK.
RIP Tony Scott
I did see a couple of Tony Scott‘s films, but I wasn’t a great fan.
RIP Tony Scott
However, I’ve never seen a cinema put something like this on the front.
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