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Shahla
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 Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 6:31 am Post subject: The British state is at war on terror, poverty, manufactur |
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The British state is at war on terror, poverty, manufacturing and light bulbs...
FAT TONGUE placed firmly in cheek, the British chancellor Gordon Brown pulled off his greatest feat of magic in 10 years of trickery at Westminster on Wednesday.
"Abracadabra," he shouted for 54 minutes...and poof!
Nothing had changed except the detail and the press coverage. He got the headlines alright. Even the press knows to watch his sleight of hand these days.
Now that's magic!
The detail's so dull, in fact, that only London's army of financial hacks could spin it out to 20 pages packed with "analysis". Gordon Brown's swag-bag was £1 billion lighter in 2005/6 than he had projected. Now he reckons he'll nab £1 billion more in 2006/7 than he forecast 12 months ago.
A billion here...a billion there...who cares? The Cabinet Office alone will spend £2.4 billion this year. On what, you might wonder new mugs and biros?
But discussing policy doesn't come cheap. Keeping the New Labour leaders in tea and biscuits will cost 9% more in 2007/8 than it did during the last fiscal year.
You gotta keep the troops' strength up, of course and war never came cheap. Now Westminster is waging war on terror...poverty...light bulbs...and what's left of British manufacturing.
The only thing sure to benefit is inflation. Everything else cancels out.
So what if Gordon Brown knocked 2p off the basic rate of income tax? He more than doubled the tax rate on your first £2,000 of taxable income...
He cut 2% off corporation tax, but excluded anyone investing in plant...
R&D firms got a £100m tax cut, but the punitive charges on North Sea oil & gas firms remain. Better to trade "carbon credits" than squeeze the last few drops out of Britain's domestic resources. Offshore hedge funds trading these 21st century indulgences will now enjoy zero tax...
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