Regular readers of Iain Dale’s Diary will appreciate that if the former Conservative Party candidate had ever been successful in getting anyone to elect him, he was not destined to be part of any Tory government’s Treasury team (although given Gideon Osborne’s anonymous performance since his adventures on the Russian’s yacht, perhaps he would have squeezed in).
Those of you who are among the 2 million regular daily readers of Iain’s blog will know one of his recurring themes is to bang on about “Gordon Brown’s catastrophic sale of our gold reserves at the lowest point in the market.” So just how wonderful was this amongst Chancellor Dale’s budget proposals today….
Announce a sell off of many of remaining government assets, including surplus land.
Bless.
I realise that facts are never permitted to interfere with a piece of what you consider to be prize snidery, but ‘Broon’ flogging off *our* gold at the bottom of the market was entirely voluntary. A bankrupty sale of state assets over the next three years will not.
Which would be a ‘fact’ if it was true that we were ‘bankrupt’ (or even bankrupty, which sounds like a pleasant was to spend a Sunday afternoon), but becomes less of a ‘fact’ when you know that we are not. Taxing the rich till the pips squeak sounds a much sounder alternative to giving away your assets at bargain prices to the very same rich speculators in order to give them a profit on the land. Why am I not surprised which you would prefer. You’re so bloody subservient.
Still, it’s nice to see Dale doing his Violet Elizabeth Bott impression, he’s going to scweam, and scweam, and scweam again because the Chancellor has lifted his chums tax rates. Ah, dee dums.
You really must try and shuffle bravely into the 21st century,Councillor. No-one can tax the rich until the pips squeak because long before it gets to that stage they will have decamped to sensible, and more attractive and civil, lands where they have the good sense to welcome rich people – knowing that there is more than one way to skin a cat. ‘Broon’s’ tax hike will, I promise, produce less actuall cash for the Treasury.
Duffy, are you really the last sad sod, somewhere in a dark enclave of England, who hasn’t been able to work out that Gordon knows how to skin that poor old cat in more ways than you could even dream about.
You really are a sad old bugger.
If Gordon could skin the cat as you suggets then we probbaly wouldn’t be quite so far up the creek sans paddling device. I have already had friends who are not in the 150k plus income bracket depart for foreign climes a sthey were so fed up with the UK as a result of Nu Lab
I plead guilty to one of your designations – “old” – but none of the others.
Your huff ‘n’ puff routine above does not disguise the fact that there will fewer and fewer cats to skin whatever ‘Gordie Broon’ dreams up. Assuming, and its a big assumption, I admit, that you are a thoughtful and dedicated socialist who wishes to collect as much tax money as possible in order to re-distribute it, then you would urge your government to set a tax rate to fit that aim. Or, perish the thought, we might suspect that you are just an class-hatred humbug who wants to impoverish and drive away the rich merely for its own sake, and bugger the frail and the needy. Which is it, Councillor?
Duffers, grammar, boy, grammar! It is “A class hatred humbug”, and I am not keen on buggery, of anyone, but particularly the frail and elderly, so you can reast easily over your horlicks tonight.
jaymason, it was ever thus. It’s the weather, stupid, for most of them, strangely, plus the equity they were able to cash in on their inflated house prices.
I’d love to know where all these pip-squeaked masters of the universe who are threatening to decamp are going to go, because I’d like to go there myself. Where are these lands of freedom and ambrosia? Dubia perhaps? Shanghai? Oh dear, we seem to have a problem…
No problem, Bryn. I just googled “world tax havens for the rich” and the very first hit was this:
http://taxcafe.co.uk/tax-havens.html?gclid=CO220OXshpoCFQKaFQodPytTFA
Perusing further, I would definitely look hard at the Seychelles (who wouldn’t?), or, if you wish to remain Anglo-Saxon-ish, try the state of Delaware.
The rich are spoilt for choice.
Delaware? The Seychelles? That would be one hell of a commute to work every morning for me, and it’s an awfully long way from my clients, so I’ll will pass.
I will also pass on the “Professionally printed 185 page tax saving book with full colour cover”. Wow – professionally printed! With a colour cover! How do they manage that for nearly thirty pounds?
I’ll also pass on the accompanying FREE! E-BOOK! detailing a bridge I can buy in New York…