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New Stealth Tax for 2012 Firms with more than 10 parking spaces will be taxed £250/parking space initially rising to £350/space after 2 years.
Swine flu scam NHS checks on who gets the antiviral Tamiflu are so lax that scammers are getting hold of vast amounts of it and selling it off at car boot sales.
Cleaning up MPs' expenses the Brown version MPs have voted to double their subsistence allowance to up to £9,125 per year, and it can be claimed without providing receipts.
What bloody military covenant? The Ministry of Defence is trying to swindle wounded soldiers out of compensation payments and wasting taxpayers' cash on frivolous appeals.
No policy, no direction, no consistent advice If you ever wanted a prime example of New Labour's total inability to run anything, take swine flu as the classic example. We've been told everything from "Everyone will get it but most people won't notice it" to "Tens of thousands of people will die and the country will shudder to a standstill", depending who's chasing the headline. The only certainty in the whole mess is that Labour's 'consultants' will rake in millions of pounds of taxpayers' cash.
The latest 'problem' is that giving Tamiflu to enough people will create a mutated version of swine flu which will make antivrials ineffective.
Wouldn't you just know it? Micromanagement by E. Balls, the Education Minister, was a big contributor to the collapse of the SATs system last year. Balls has been lying and trying to cover up his contribution (how very New Labour), but the truth has seeped out finally.
It's only taxpayers' cash The Dept. of Culture, Media & Sport has a £100 million Brown Hole in its accounts due to "hopeless" management.
Our Money The government has blown £12 million on a campaign to cut knife crime, and derived lots of spin & publicity from it, but achieved . . . absolutely nothing after a whole year.
U-Turn Gordon Brown's "root & branch reform of Parliament" has turned into a total waste of time rush job with the teeth drawn, leaving just soggy gums to suck on swindling MPs.
Cowardice in the face of the truth Rather than do the job himself, Gordon Brown has revved up Labour toady Lord Foulkes to smear General Dannatt for daring to expose the government's failure to give the Army proper support in Afghanistan. A smear campaign is Brown's preferred alternative to trying to justify his deliberate betrayal of the armed forces throughout his period in office.
You can tell there's a general election looming . . . The government spent £540 MILLION of taxpayers' cash on spin and 'nanny state' advertising in 2008/09 up 43% on the previous year.
Bad News Buried Parliament is breaking up for a 3-month summer holiday, so trot out the bad news. No. 1, tax revenues are down by £32 billion, so any spending plans G. Brown announces to buy votes will be either hot air or something which will have to be paid for with massive tax increases.
No. 2., the National Audit offices has refused to sign off on the accounts of half a dozen Whitehall ministries, including the Treasury, the Department of Work & Pensions and the Ministry of Defence. The reasons cited include failure to deal with massive levels of fraud, incompetence and overpayment, buying IT systems that don't work and spending cash not authorized by parliament. And the Equality & Human Rights Commission, which is notorious for its terrible standards of management, was guilty of making executives redundant, giving them a huge pay-off then hiring them again at a vastly inflated salary.
Fairness according to Jack Straw and the Ministry of Injustice The government has sneaked out another swindle by stealth. Anyone who becomes a victim of violent crime and makes a claim to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board will lose 10-25% of the award if they have speeding convictions.
Catch 22 Lives! The government is bumping people who make home improvements, such as double glazing and insulation, into a higher Council Tax bracket. And anyone who doesn't make home improvements is branded an energy-guzzler and required to pay more Council Tax, stamp duty and inheritance tax. The guzzlers are also to be offered loans to pay for improvements with the false promise that the money they save on energy bills will more than handle the loan repayments.
Government Double U-Bend U-Turn #1 Gordon Brown had admitted that General Sir R. Dannatt got it right (and he was lying) and more troops and decent equipment are needed in Afghanistan.
U-Turn #2 Defence Sec. B. Ainsworth has ordered his minions to end the Ministry's self-serving and unpatriotic sleaze campaign against General Dannatt.
No sense of decency at the MoD The government is wasting a fortune on spying on injured troops, abusing anti-terror laws, hoping to cut their compensation payments. It is also trying to intimidate troops into not making claims in the first place via threatening letters.
"But we knew that already, dear." Jacqui Smith has admitted she was never up to the job of Home Sec. She's not even qualified to run her own home and the only reason she got the job was that G. Brown was trying to ingratiate himself with New Labour's Wimmin.
It almost makes sense . . . Gordon Brown, Lord Sleaze and those arch scroungers the Kinnocks are backing T. Blair for the job of President of Europe. So they'd like to see a war criminal in charge of an organization which is a byword for stupidity and corruption? Figures.
Do the boys a favour All the failed bankers who wrecked their companies with criminally reckless mismanagement have enjoyed the taxpayer's hospitality at Chequers courtesy of G. Brown. Which explains why New Labour has been so soft on the banks Gordon looking after his mates.
Even his own side doesn't support him Gordon Brown says he's given the troops in Afghanistan enough helicopters. The Labour-controlled Commons Defence Select Committee says he's lying and that he's also lying about what the Army's ageing helicopters in Afghanistan can do (when they're not out of action being repaired).
Everything goes back to 2004 and Chancellor Brown cutting the MoD helicopter budget by £1.4 billion.
Another swindle on the way The government plans an Energy Stealth Tax of £92/year to pay for hugely expensive wind turbines, which won't supply enough electricity to keep the lights on. And customers are warned to expect to have to pay £700/year more by 2050.
"Don't ask me, gov." In a debate on the one-sided extradition with the United States, as applied to the British hacker Gary McKinnon, the Home Sec., A. Johnson, admitted he's too thick to understand the issues and he just does what he's told by his advisors. The Home Office used to be one of the "Great Offices of State" which had to be run by a person of stature. Evidently, not any more under New Labour.
Truth hurts, so avoid it at all costs The Science Community Representing Education sounds like a grand organization. Pity it's just a bunch of stooges, in the main, who are prepared to hush up the dumbing down of GCSEs to avoid embarrassing the government with the truth.
Tell 'em anything, then forget it In 1997, Tony B. Lair said he didn't want his kids to grow up in a country where pensioners have to sell their homes to get long-term care. In 2009, Health Sec. A. Burnham has never heard of T. Blair and he thinks anyone with a couple of bob is fair game for another New Labour Stealth Tax of 20 grand to fund part of their old-age care.
Public funding of political parties by Stealth New Labour has created an army of politicians; MPs, MEPs, MSPs, Members of the Welsh, Northern Irish & London Assemblies, local councillors, their advisors and other staff; which is now some 29,000 strong and costs the taxpayer £500 million per year in salaries and expenses. Which amounts to taxpayer funding of party politics on the sly.
Brown disregard for the lives of British troops War is on the verge of breaking out between the heads of the British army and G. Brown and his stooges at the Ministry of Defence, including Brown's IRA-supporting Defence Sec. Brown systematically starved the army of cash while Chancellor and the stooges have always been too busy fighting imaginary future wars to focus on the ones the army is having to fight right now. Which has led to the present calamity of British troops in Afghanistan fighting and dying while having to cope with inadequate numbers, highly inadequate equipment and non-existent political planning for a country with endemic corruption, where democracy is irrelevant.
Stealth Tax Warning The latest government tax scam comes from the Climate Change Dept., prop. E. Miliband. Anyone without loft and/or wall insulation, and full double glazing, will be punished with higher Council Tax payments and a higher rate of stamp duty when they sell their inferior property.
Offenders will be encouraged to take out loans to pay for upgrading their home with the false promise that the money they save on their energy bills will more than cover the loan repayments.
MERIT doesn't matter; New Labour is interested only in SEX and SKIN COLOUR The latest government target is aimed at increasing the number of females and members of ethnic minorities in the Honours Lists. All 'non-white female' is the ultimate goal.
It's only taxpayers' lives This rotten government would rather waste millions of pounds on things like promoting gender equality for Afghan women than spend money on protecting the lives of British troops fighting there by giving them decent equipment.
It's only taxpayers' money The government is paying £1 million to Nigeria to upgrade a gaol there so that Nigerian criminals convicted here can be sent to a prison which doesn't violate their human rights. Only under New Labour could we have been dragged into such a tangle of craziness.
Stealth Tax Warning Not enough people are buying passports. The Home Office is 400,000 purchases short of its target and there's a £32 million Brown Hole in the accounts. So instead of redeploying or sacking surplus staff, the Home Office is going to put up the price of a passport by 7% to £77.50 in September. So no danger of the real world intruding into staffing levels at the Home Office, then?
More muck under Mandelson's carpet £16 million of taxpayers' cash blown on the report into the collapse of MG Rover then Lord Sleaze redacts the report into invisibility. The taxpayer was fleeced, the Labour party wasted a ton of our money right before the 2005 general election, usual suspects walked away with their pockets bulging with millions but none of that can come out until after the next election.
G. Brown and his special advisor, Baroness Vedera, are to blame for the collapse of MG Rover, say the 'Phoenix Four' (the guys who got loadsa loot). When Chancellor, Brown put the mockers on a Chinese rescue deal.
Something to recall when Brown starts lying again about spending our money . . . "Let us dismiss the notion that spending on health and education will be protected. There are good reasons why they won't and shouldn't. Don't believe the shroud-wavers who tell you grannies will die and children starve if spending is cut. They won't. Cuts are inevitable and perfectly manageable." Steve Bundred, chief exectutive of the Audit Commission
Still broken, no fix in sight 4 million people are still worse off after Gordon Brown abolished the 10p tax rate in his final budget 2 years ago, grabbing a headline without working through the consequences. A fix was promised but New Labour economics took over.
More Balls Over 70% of the jobs created since New Labour took over have gone to foreigners. British jobs for British workers? Yeah, right!
Total Balls Schools Sec. E. Balls reckons that the economy is stronger than it looks and Labour is going to spend BILLIONS on his latest scheme for messing the education system about. Proposition 1. is a political lie (and E. Balls knows it, being partly responsible for the Brown Slump) and as far as Proposition 2. goes, the Audit Commission has found that the BILLIONS of pounds thrown at the education system by New Labour have been SQUANDERED. So all Balls is offering is more of the same old lies and maladministration.
U-Turn Home Sec. A. Johnson has abolished the compulsory ID card plan. They are now something to be flogged to young adults, so that they can prove that they are old enough to buy booze, and given away to pensioners to keep the system turning over and cash flowing into the pockets of the Labour party pals running the manufacturing operation. Which has devoured £215.2 million over the last 6 years.
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