Well, it’s easy to decide what to winge about this week. I was so incensed by Gordon Brown’s budget that I wrote a letter to the Daily Mirror. Not that I especially like that paper, but I thought I had a better chance of getting it published there than in the broadsheets as they might find the letter a bit simplistic and to-the-point – I was going for succinct. I guess I could have tried the Mail or the Express but they are just too right wing and Middle England for me. Mind you, it’s scary when you start wondering if the Tories might be the lesser of two evils… Sod it! I’m going back to being an anarchist.
Old joke for you:
Q. how do you know when a politician is lying?
A. their mouth is open
Anyway, here is the letter:
“I was quite flabbergasted to hear in today’s budget that income tax is being cut by 2%, while only last night the government announced a poxy 2% cost of living wage increase for public sector workers as it’s all they can afford apparently. Mind you, according to the Bank of England the current inflation rate is a mere 2.8%, but where they get this figure I don’t know. Have they factored in things like council tax bills (up 4.7% in my area), house prices, petrol prices… I could go on.
I am sure I am not the only one that doesn’t mind paying tax as long as we know where it’s going and isn’t being wasted on bureaucracy (well, I can dream!). This tax cut is just a cynical vote-catcher in my view and is balanced out by the abolition of the 10p rate for low income earners and the usual increases in indirect tax increases elsewhere.”
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