Tax dodger turned tax campaigner Richard Murphy has a warped sense of perspective about a lot of things, but it’s rare that he makes it quite so obvious:
BBC News is downgrading budget coverage (and my commentary) for French gunman. Is that really appropriate? Isn't budget more important?—
Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) March 21, 2012
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Lord Tebbit has his say on ‘aggressive homosexuals’:
“Why shouldn’t a mother marry her daughter? Why shouldn’t two elderly sisters living together marry each other? I quite fancy my brother!”
Google-eyed-Dave
HAHAHA. What an arse.
Osborne’s triple whammy as he mugs 5m pensioners with £3bn hidden ‘granny tax’, drags 300,000 more workers into higher tax band and refuses to stop rise in fuel duty
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2118134/BUDGET-2012-Granny-tax-pensioners-Osborne-hits-300-000-higher-tax-refuses-stop-fuel-duty-rise.html#ixzz1pm65Y0lZ
Did not the state penison rise by about £5 pound?
And personal tax allowance made everyone better off by about £250 ?
Not if you are paying 40%, drive a car, have a holiday, drink, smoke, get any means tested benefits, etc. If you are 40% tax payer and have children you are much worse off but if you are 50% tax payer you are much better off.
Budget 2012: George Osborne just created 300,000 new 40p taxpayers
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielknowles/100145852/george-osborne-just-created-300000-new-40p-taxpayers/
Tax-cuts take money out of the economy.
Ha Ha Ha!
Cheers George!
Nice one.
who is richard murphy
Must be honest – I was wondering that, too…
Check out his blog @ Tax Reasearch UK and you’ll soon find out. He’s the patron saint of UKUncut.
Benefits were increased by Osborne by 5% plus, it was the reward to sit on you bum or sleep around and have 10 kids by 10 different man. Work pays!
duz that meen we is OK? n we can get knoct up again soon?
If you are looking for robbery, you won’t find a bigger thief than the PM under whom quantitative easing started. The man who rescued banks which should have been allowed to fail. Who allowed the country to fill up with immigrants who would not assimilate just to gain votes. Who allowed the public sector to dominate our economy to make it into a semi-communist state. Who politicised the police. Who devalued our education system. Could go on all night with examples but you should get the picture by now.
Champagne sociopaths don’t care about the people they just want to discredit their opposition to grab power by any means.
Look at Miliband’s rant at the despatch box today, His speech bore no resemblance to the budget just presented and he just looked stupid.
The grass roots of the Labour Party must eject the odious trolls infesting the party and discrediting all that Ramsay McDonald started
+100 militwit didn’t just look stupid he is stupid.
And I think that’s the first time I’ve used that s word in 20 odd years as I consider it a word only acceptable for very exceptional circumstances.
Gordon Brown, a great Prime Minister, who was guest of honour at the Portsmouth Businessman of the year, when he was Chancellor, along with his Oppo, Fred Goodwin. Who was the Businessman of the year? The biggest drug dealer in the south east and the biggest property developer in Portsmouth, building flats for all the asylum seekers, the Home Office paid us to take in. My cut? Big. Boaz.
Could not agree more but this government has wasted two years and scrapping existing Carrier and Harriers was ludicrous.
Hidden granny tax?
That’s OK, I don’t hide my granny.
ITV News show a 70+ yo ex policeman who will now have to pay extra tax. NO he won’t. MSM have got this wrong. Clearly they have not understood.
Of course he will because Ozzie has frozen his pensioner’s tax allowance for 2013-14 onwards.
I’m not complaining tho if it means my kids in work get extra allowance.
Richard Murphy!!!!!!!????????
Murphy is the guy who was pushed off the top spot for three days by a footballer who was shown to be dead, as opposed to most of them who are walking around brain-dead.
Small businesses are having to resort to loans from rich individuals and “peer-to-peer” networks because some banks are refusing to lend to the sector altogether, according to the Bank of England.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/budget/9157676/Budget-2012-Bank-of-England-reveals-crunch-in-small-business-lending.html
Yep! Same thing happened then as well.
Banks would not lend to small businesses and they went bust due to cash flow problems.
Plus ca change, plus le meme chose
1992 good old Tory years, we put lots of people on dole and got their houses on the cheap.
The reason the banks aren’t lending is that they are still deleveraging the over lending they did from 2002 to 2007. Gordon Brown and Ed Balls let banks lend 30% more than normal loan provisioning allowed because they had bought credit default insurance from AIG et al.
The banks now use synthethic securitisation to transfer the risk of their over extended loans, but the actual loans remain on their books. This enables the banks to pass “stress tests” while having an overextended balance sheetmeaning they are unable to lend to SME’s.
So the banks take money at virtually zero percent from the Bank of England and use it to speculate on the bond, equity and stock markets. This BoE leveraged free punting money does the governments bidding by supporting the markets giving the impression of growth and stability. The side effect is that these bank proprietary traders need to be paid bonuses for supporting the economy with the governments printed money. There are now US$700 trillion of outstanding derivative obligations propping up the systemically bust global banks and insurance companies.
All this would not have happened if Blair, Brown and Balls had not directed the BoE and FSA to leverage bank loans to fund their middle class “no more boom and bust” gerrymandering.
Every socialist administration in history in any country has always ended badly with huge debt and default
> There are now US$700 trillion of outstanding derivative obligations propping up the systemically bust global banks and insurance companies.
It should net to ~zero, as long as no-one goes bu5t…. hehe.
That is what happened to AIG
They couldn’t meet their obligations after Lehman failed and the house of cards fell apart.
It was only when the Chinese suggested taking over AIG (as it was originally established in Shanghai in 1919) that the US government stepped in as they did not want the entire western banking system beholden to Beijing.
Too Big To Fail is more about countries and governments more than banks.
Chuckus, you huhne. Don’t say anymore – you merely expose your idiocy
Bank Loans are NEVER a good idea for small business.
A sound and sensible statement.
… it is much better for people starting their own businesses to borrow the odd GBP 1m from their parent isn’t it – you huhne
From one small business man to a small man, fuck off and get that tunnel fitted you’ve been saving for.
I think Bill Gates would agree it’s best to avoid using banks to borrow.
Sorry you can’t stand the criticism you huhnes. Better run back to Mummy and Daddy – I am sure they will look after you again.
I studied does have a point
You have to actually make a point to have a point.
He does neither and is pointless, like BBITGUE.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/03/21/french-spree-shooter-is-a-muslim-named-mohammed-who-fought-with-the-taliban-in-afghanistan-other-than-that-he-fits-the-media%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98far-right%E2%80%99-profile-perfectly/
French Spree Shooter is a Muslim Named Mohammed Who Fought With the Taliban in Afghanistan. Other Than That He Fits The Media’s ‘Far-Right’ Profile Perfectly
Izlam is a religion of peas!
OBR delusions
http://openeuropeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/budget-which-austerity-cant-touch.html
Notice the big theft in the budget. It’s the theft of the state second pension.
I take it you didn’t opt out?
Anyway, it looks like those that have made existing contributions will keep the existing benefits.
Its just that they will stop pretending that you will get any more by paying NI.
This makes sense if they are then going to merge NI and tax into a single system.
Brown’s hair is Osborne.
Your spelling is Brown.
Someone should slap a tax on pomposity. Murphy would go bankrupt!
The budget is just a silly day when the Chancellor plays Father Christmas.
Richard Murphy as the most influential left wing thinker of 2010-11
Richard Murphy has written more than 350 articles in the last year. He has given speeches at parliament and private advice to countless numbers of Labour MPs. He has worked on various projects with Demos and PCS Union. His latest book “The Courageous State” is near completion and will be ready for September. Thus, Richard has clearly been dedicated throughout the year and has shown an ethic unmatched.
{almighty yawn just posting this. Sorry if you read it.}
Just downgraded your comment, but let me know when your latest book is due for publication.
Your research is better than mine. I just googled him and got “Richard Murphy Architects, Edinburgh, founded 1991 for Arts, Education, Housing, Health, Public and Community Use and Masterplanning.”
Sorry, equally boring.
(What is the difference between ‘public’ and ‘community’ use, btw?)
And who is that pompous git that has the effrontery to call himself Master Planning.
Your lucky, on Google I got “Did you mean Eddy Murphy, American comedic actor, arrested by police for picking up transexual prostitute”
And I knew that couldn’t be right, because Richard Murphy is not a Lib Dem, is he?
Looney leftie Klaxon!!!!
What an utter throbber
The guy is a grade A pillock of the highest order.
His self-importance and pomposity know no bounds.
And he is wrong on 80%+ of the points he makes.
Why is he on the BBC at all is the question we should be asking?
He is just a trade union shill.
The BBC Budget team think they’re X -factor judges, suprised they didn’t show their journey to the studios. Fucking wankers (oxymoron) the lot of them.
Thought Danny Alexander coped very well with hostile questioning from Huw Edwards, Robert Peston, Nick Robinson AND Stephanie Flanders.
No cosy chat with Andrew Marr like Balls and Livingstone recently enjoyed.
So ‘on side’ are BBC with Labour front bench and so aware are they of their complicity that I swear I heard a giggle from Marr when he interviewed Balls recently.
Gonk, have you got all those words in the right order? Missing the word ‘Fondled’.
I see they sidelined Brillo to give Liebor spokespeople an easy run.
Murphy should know that Bad News Sells Papers, and the same applies to online coverage.
A customer walks into Mr. Patel’s newsagents and asks
“Do you have the Star on Sunday with Guido Fawkes’s column in it?”
Mr. Patel replies “Don’t be a prat, it’s Wednesday”.
Well you’re certainly not.
Not while Ed Balls and many of the same old faces are sitting on Labour’s front bench. Labour are unelectable, and rapidly becoming as irrelevant as they were in the early eighties under Foot.
Labour have lost the argument on the economy as badly as they lost the argument on unilateral nuclear disarmament back then, but they still keep banging the same old drum.
I like to bang my old drum but she’s always in Canterbury
This chipmunk was in parliament grinning like a strangled cheshire cat.
Where was that other great load of balls – Gordon? Still looking down someone’s blouse probably.
That’s the first ‘normal’ response I’ve ever seen from him.
Steady as we sink.
We weren’t going anywhere for 13 years, David.
Where were you?
Can we get at least get one thing straight, are you really Dave or Ed?.
David is the one who says things which make people laugh at him.
Ed is the one who could read the bloody telephone directory, and people would laugh at him.
Unfortunately, when dealing with a tweet, impossible to tell which twat.
Where were you you and your tweets/comments you feckin’ twat Milliband when your leader Brown was ruining the country !! Feck off for good.
PS! Glad Rover beat Sunderland last night!!
Could you go on a Grand Day Out?
Don’t bother coming back.
Just wait until Marie Le Pen is on a state visit to Downing Street.
People who don’t love the religion of pe*ace and tolerance are loonies, fruitcakes and loons. And closet r*acists.
We’re really short of wind farms – any of you like to turn your grouse moor into a nice little earner?
“A Pension Pilfering P Posing as PM”
I’m really sorry to have to tell you this but gordon already holds the record for that title.
He cold bloodedly robbed pensioners of £5billion a year. Nobody has managed to better his record and nobody is ever likely to.
ho gives a toss about 6 dead frogs
I dont
The parents of the children might……
You’re a naffing sicko, I hope the Frenchie boys do to that Al Quada fascist what the US Seals did to the porno lover Bin Laden. Summary justice that’s what he deserves.
Hark at her….
BBC researcher –
Thank you for calling. Yes we do need ordinary, TV licence fee sort of people for Newsnight, tonight. let me take some details.
Did the child benefit cut affect you?
- Naw, i still get it.
Ok – Do you gain from the 50p-45p tax cut?
- Naw, I’m on a lot less than that.
So, you are very upset that the rich got a tax cut?
-Suppose i is, yeah.
And you’d like to complain?
-Yeah!
And you drive?
- No
But you do smoke?
No
- Are you about to buy a £2 million house?
Eh?
look mate, i think you’re wasting our time.
You’ve hit the nail on the head as always Q!!
Anyone who understands the whole history of the persecution of the jews understands the purpose of anti semitism. It was not just Hitler who hated the jews. Just about everyone did! It is a sad stain on humanity!
“It was not just Hitler who hated the jews.”
No shit? Really? You know what, I always thought those death-camp guards were against it. “Got in Himmel! Ve hav to gaz ze juden again! What is mit der Hitler? Na ja, I suppose ve vill have to kill der juden. Dammit. Ich hate doing zis.”
“It was not just Hitler who hated the j*ews.”
Ah, I always wondered how he got away with killing 6.5million of them, all by himself.
What a twerp!
This Murphy twit needs to get a grip…talk about inflated sense of self-worth. He seriously thinks any of us give a flying rat’s monkey about his budget commentary?
That would be the white Christian right wing gunman the BBC kept telling us about the other day?
They were keen to big up the Sarkozy playing the race card qngle before it was revealed a mad mullah was behind it. I’m surprised they are still carrying the story now it no longer fits their preconceptions.
The story’s on their home page, but doesn’t mention the words “muslim” or “islam”.
So it wasn’t a muslim killing children in the name of islam..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17462604
with a name like that and training from al-Q there isnt much doubt about that though.
Tell you what though, this is a fair load of mathematically close to impossible bollocks:
“Afghan officials told the BBC he had been jailed in Kandahar for planting bombs in 2007, but escaped in a Taliban-led break-out in 2008.”
So he was doing that 5 years ago when he was 17. But he was in prison in France for robbery or somesuch crime when he was 18/19
Mr. Murphy I was unaware of until now, but I can see he would be well up on many a BBC Producer’s iPhone list for impartial commentary, so his dropping must have been cause for much soul-searching.
However, getting this other sweetheart’s justifications out (it was for… the children… well, not all of them, obviously, but the ones some value more than others, and deliberate targetting is much nobler than unavoidable collateral when Daddy is using junior as a human shield) seems pretty much essential news for the nation’s treasure.
Don’t worry, the BBC will work a right wing racist gunman who kills an innocent family of immigrants into Holby City next week. Just to reinforce the phoney, lying narrative, you understand.
That’s it – TWO – every day until success.
BTW – what will the Mussos do to the BBC dept for poo and p00fter related issues when they take over?
Probably chuck the beeboids off the top diving board at the Olympic stadium, with no water in the pool of course.
The BBC keep bigging up the evil Tory tax cuts for the rich…except I haven’t heard Balls or Red Ed say they’d reverse it.
It’s that blank sheet of paper again.
Rachel Reeves stated if Labour had Budget tomorrow they’d reverse it.
But day after tomorrow would be different and they’d have to have a big think.
“Tax dodger turned tax campaigner”
You left out the word “fellow”.
fellow refers to men.
Are you suggesting that women can’t also be dodgers who turn to campaigning when there’s more money to be found on that side of things?
Surely that is a chauvinist assumption?!
Bigot!
eh? We’re 20+ minutes into the 6 O’Clock News and no child-murdering muslims spotted yet…
We’re still trying to work-out how far-right white extremists forced the pe*ace-loving tolerant Muslim to do it.
We’ll broadcast when we have the details.
Best look towards French television BBC, they have interviewed an Imam, who explained for the gullible viewers, that the gunman like his fellow believers, felt excluded from racist and unhospitable, French society and thus turned to extremism as a “cry for help and understanding”. Poor lamb.
I don’t know about anybody else. I don’t give a toss about his colour or his beliefs. He killed innocent people and especially children.
Sad that Fr ance no longer uses her guillotine.
Rightwingers are constantly demanding that Muslims start acting more like them but when they do they complain. There’s no pleasing some people.
Jimmy you get more ridiculous by the day.
People who kill children and innocent people are just that killers.
Right or left is irrelevant.
“give a toss … about his beliefs”
Well its useful to know and work out what we’re up against.
Not quite a useless idiot like Richard Reid, but a late convert to radical islam. On the whole he’s been too busy getting pissed, clubbing and shagging until the age of about 18, when he got locked up for 18 months. Complete psycho.
Fuck off Jimmy you brainwashed apologist.
Apparently one of those antiwar types like jgm2
Awwwww, Jimmy’s upset because he was wrong on Iraq.
Which channel were you watching then?
Right-wingers don’t make their women cover up, refuse them education; permission to work, drive, choose their own partner or speak to any males.
Women in fundamentalist Islamic countries are treated worse than dogs and yet the usual left wing equality protagonists remain silent.
Mo’hamed, mo’ problems.
Right-wingers don’t m
“Did not the state penison rise by about £5 pound?”
Indeed it did. My friend was overjoyed to get the rise. Unfortunately the rise amounted to the princelly sum of 2p after the thieving gits deducted most of his rise from the element of Pension Credit he was entitled to.
tsch! The money for India’s space programme has to come from somewhere!
- and Wind Farms – don’t forget Wind Farms!
And the £32billion countryside-wrecking HS2 rail link, that no-one wants. No one except my developer chums, and me, because I’ll get a big fat backhander and a non-exec job with the developers when I’m kicked-out of No.10 in 2015.
The HS2 rail link has all the makings of a Millennium Dome white elephant.
It’s a ridiculous sum of money for shaving a few minutes off a journey. Why not just invest the money in the current rail-line infrastructure and make sure there are enough trains running that are frequent, reliable and affordable.
The Government should just admit they were wrong, cancel the link and avoid months of endless arguments. E
The main beneficiary of rail upgrades and ticket subsidies are to the price of houses of people living within commuting distance of rail stations.
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They don’t even have to admit they were wrong. Just cancel it on the grounds of cost. ‘We can’t afford it’.
Nobody could argue with that while we’re running 125bn quid deficits.
And cancel those fucking aircraft carriers too. And if the contractor insists on being paid the full whack in compensation then remove them from the preferred bidder list and bar them from future government work.
How will all those those taxis in different Indian cities get around without those GPS units that our money for charitable purposes bought.
Today’s Lesson: Dumbarse pollies would do well to stay off the social media.
I notice that Channel 4 news also seemed to have forgotten that it’s a Mohammaden who murdered those poor Jewish kids in Toulouse. seems to be something affecting the lefty news networks.
Here’s a bit from C4′s news website yesterday
“…Inevitable comparisons are also being drawn with Norwegian gunman, Anders Behring Breivik, a far-right extremist who shot 69 people at a Labour camp on the island of Utoya after killing eight in a bomb attack in Oslo last August. While some theories have suggested the French killer may be led by a terrorist gang, the bulk of investigators’ enquiries are said to be operating on the basis that he is also a lone wolf….”
Who is drawing comparisons? C U nt z like the BBC and Channel 4 who were having wet dreams is what a nasty white boy who liked Nazi’s
Soon as it turns out to be a Mohammaden mong, they seem to forget all that hatred stuff.
Shut the fuck up complaining and pay your license fee honkey!
militwit has abandoned his failed ‘nhs has ceased to exist’ bandwagon in favour of today’s ‘pensioners are going to be bled dry by the budget’ bandwagon.
He only needed to go and ask his mother whether that was true to have discovered it wasn’t and that he is on another hiding to nothing.
He really is a greater idiot than gordon. And I never thought to see the like!
Militwit abandoned his “failed NHS” when he turned up at a football match instead.
Just shows us where his priorities lie.
He was expressing his wholesome support for skivers who pull sickies.
This is obviously an important voting group that labour need to court now that they no longer represent the Real Working Classes.
Not a ‘French gunman’, a Muslim gunman
Like Guido’s blog, we have a hangup by which we are unable to say certain words, – they turn into something else.
So – for instance musso turns into Right wing extremist n4zi loving z1onist th4t goes around sho0ting people.
And pay your telly tax – no excuses!
Dear BBC.
You are a complete and utter waste of licence-payers money.
You are deluded if you think that the majority of people would pay the TV tax if we had the choice.
*Tumultuos applause*
Done without perfect politeness and without giving anything away. Excellent.
Looks as if I was suffering from Shirley Williams last night.
Tumultuous
The bloke is a complete pseud.
By the by. was gordon in the HoC for the Budget today?
I felt sure he’d want to know that pensioners and businesses were finally being treated fairly after the way he robbed them blind.
No. No, I stayed away. It just brought back all the memories. Fond memories of my last ever budget, in 2007, when I doubled income tax for the lowest paid.
Och, such hap*py days. Oh, how I miss them. We’ll nay see their likes again, och the noo.
Yes indeed I’d forgotten about the 10p tax debacle. Labour just never really loved the lower paid did they?
As gordon showed with his pyjama parties for murdoch at Chequers; his natural home was with celebrities and the like.
Didn’t he always end up in the kitchen at parties, with a carrier bag and a house brick.
As Ken Livingston pointed out, poor people vote Labour. Therefore, we in the Labour Party try to make as many people poor as we possibly can, and once they’re poor we strive to KEEP them poor.
That’s why we let in millions of Poles. To keep wages low and unemployment high.
Don’t forget to immigration increases wage competition AND boosts rents!
Richard Murphy was spot on. Why waste air time on yet another mad follower of the “religion of tolerance”?
Wtf is Richard Murphy ????
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/01/491672.html
I suspect he’s this specimen.
He talks on UK tax at the Occupy Conference at the Citadel of Hope.
Ego bigger than gordon’s!
Ha ha ha ha!
“A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage..”
Non-corporate. Non-Commercial. VIA SKYPE.
Ha ha ha ha haa! The socialist mongs are out of ideas.
“Socialism is the future! Down with capitalism and big business! It offers us nothing!
Posted from my iPad”.
It’s a retired accountant pretending to be an economist by all credible accounts.
According to Wiki he makes kettles and toasters and steam irons
He’s a property owning rent-seeker. i.e. typical marxist leech.
The budget is an important issue, but compared to the murder of three soldiers and a number of Jews, including children, shows what a fucked up sense of priorities lefties have. If the culprit had turned out to be White, far right, Christian fundamentalist, the BBC and other far left outfits would have forgotten all about the budget and concentrated their attention solely on the gunman. Unfortunately for them, it seems the guilty party is actually a follower of Mohammed. I wouldn’t be surprised if they did a piece about him that claimed he committed these murders because he’d been abused as a child, and make a less than subtle suggestion that we should feel sorry for him.
Doesn’t really matter what he claims he is. He is first and foremost a killer of innocent people and of children.
All people who kill try to justify themselves by claiming a religion or deprived childhood or something.
The stark truth is some people are just missing basic decencies like a conscience and hence become killers. They can be any colour any creed any gender.
Unfortunately for them, it seems the guilty party is actually a follower of Mohammed.
There’s your answer right there. It’s no longer news because nobody is surprised.
Gordon Brown. I unhumbly apply for the position of Archbishop of Kirkcaldy.
Gimme it! Gimme!
Within a couple of weeks the opinion polls will still show Labour unable to get a significant lead in the polls, DESPITE the budget.
Osborne could have put taxes UP by 20% and Labour would still not be trusted with the economy.
Well who would trust militwit and balls with the economy?
I wouldn’t trust them with a 5 year old’s weekly pocket money.
They come from the school of ‘ spend and print money to get yourself out of trouble’ or to put it another way ‘ use your credit card to spend wildly and worry about repayments later’!!
I suspect madoff was more frugal and economically sensible than the current labour crew.
Madoff knew it was an unsustainable ponzi scheme.
You get the feeling the “borrow your way out of debt” crowd (not just the left) have no idea how daft their plans are.
You maybe right about the present gormless labour crew.
But I suspect gordon knew exactly what sort of ponzi scheme he was creating and glorified in it!
Stick a turnip up his botty nell, he deserves it.
Turnips are far too useful to be wasted in such a way!
Looks like the TwAT is back.
He was crowing earlier that he didn’t get something wrong like he usually does.
stick one up AC1 too while you’re at it.
http://www.endoftheroadfilm.com/
The most curious thing about the budget was Osborne’s explanation for dropping the 50p tax rate; apparently this tax band raises virtually nothing for HMRC (£100m), then the claim that the rich will pay 5 times this amount in stamp duty (still virtually nothing?).
And having said that the introduction of this band caused people to move income into the previous tax year, surely revenue would be maximised by raising the rate a little further, to cause taxpayers to move income into the current year. By his own logic this would raise several hundred million in the current year, rather than encouraging the deferral of income to 2012-13.
Given that this band of taxpayers has the freedom to move income between tax years suggests they have their roots in the UK, and will be here next year too, awaiting the pre-election giveaway.
I meant to say deferral to 2013-14, when the 45p band comes in
I think the most curious thing about this budget was the rather incoherent rant militwit launched against it without being able to make one single salient economic point in his own party’s favour.
It was the worst opposition statement in response to a budget that I have ever heard.
Worst – agreed. Curious – no. Ed was entirely predictable.
I just begin to lose faith when such an important matter is backed by flimsy argument. The increased VAT we are already paying negates much if not all of the £170 tax break for basic rate tax payers. The budget documents show VAT receipts are now £18bn a year above the peak of £80bn under Gordon Brown.
We need to pay down the deficit, but let’s be honest about who is paying what
Just like Andy Vermin during the so called emergency healthcare debate. Labour have absolutely nothing to offer.
Yes exactly.
But it’s a sad day for democracy and the real working classes when labour proves themselves to be so lacking and insupportive of the very people they were originally founded to protect.
Poor people, working class people.. grotty little shits, all of them. Racist, mainly, and horribly white.
Dismal, shitty, horrible people.
Hey, – Hatty, – remember me? the bloke you pandered to to get my vote, – you shiftless, shameless, lying, two-faced bitch, – the mirror image of your bullying leader, – the Sanctimonious Son of The Manse.
Miliband: Same old Soundbites
The 50p tax rate probably raises more than 100 million in accountants fees, and thus they are it’s major beneficiary.
50 percent is an incentive tax
you have no idea do you – what a huhne
What you fail to understand is that anyone earning £150K+ (and who is therefore subject to the 50% tax), hires a fucking accountant. The accountant will – as part of the job – advise on tax avoidance. It’s what an accountant does. It’s their job.
Put taxes up, more people use accountants, more people get advice on tax avoidance, less money goes to HMRC.
He’s a thicky. Leave him wallow in his ignorance.
Just remember that the Banks don’t need to lend to businesses, since they can lend to Osbone-head and fund the deficit, and earn money for (not even) old rope!
Abolish the PSBR, prohibit fractional-reserve banking, the banks will be redundant, no bonuses, no bail-outs and proper money.
No economy either.
http://vimeo.com/34152503
But what does Robert Peston think about it?, err, but does Robert Peston think?.
End of the Road has signed a distribution agreement with prestigious UK based film distributor Mercury Media! Mercury is renowned for distributing many great titles, such as the Academy Award nominated IOUSA.
I see cameron is planning a cabinet reshuffle very shortly.
I wonder if labour is going to follow suit. They desperately need a new shadow chancellor . He could appoint theshrillyvette but that would create some inhouse domestic hostility. Perhaps he should offer the job to vince if he would agree to jump ship.
It’s a bit difficult nowadays to find real working class mp’s to fill the shadow cabinet jobs when nearly every labour mp nowadays is at least a £millionaire.
Amateurs !
Labour are utterly despicable.
The real problem with labour is that they have become the butt of jokes, the party clown, the dinner party idiot.
Labour seem to have forgotten their own Granny Tax from 2010: http://bit.ly/GK5uCs
Modded for drawing attention to VAT receipts?
Think yourself lucky to get off so lightly, people have been knee capped for drawing attention to Vat receipts (EEC none-payment of).
You’re very lucky to have been moderated on a blog that extols the virtue of free speech!
It should never happen!
Watch it all, he hides in a fish & chip shop
I think you were right to ditch the chicken suit this time.
SAUSAGES, MAD, TORIES, RICH 4X2′S, SAUSAGES, NEWTS, BORIS, SAUSAGES,
You should have gone to specksavers.
Check the local mosque. LOL
He’ll be with his terrorist friends
Night Sweeties.God Bless.
B0wden?
More of a c’unt I would say.
Thank fuck for that, the Nell, Psycho Cat and Billy show have fucked off at last.
The bird booted off the Apprentice is rather tasty, shame the show is shit and Alan Sugar is a twat.
That shitty show is one of the reasons I don’t have a TV. I couldn’t even stand the trailers for The Apprentice.
Shame you watch the BBC.
What a total tosser!
- ever again!
LieBore was bad – but we (at least I) did expect better – and what we have is ?
Total fuct up twattage – talking tripe, STILL wasting money, – high fuel tax, ridiculous ‘green’ taxes, nestling into the warm cosy tits of the EUSSR, – and risible Broad Band.
“It [the Lisbon Treat] strengthens the voice of national parliaments
and governments in EU affairs. It is a good treaty for Britain
and for the new Europe. We will put it to the British people in a referendum” – Labour election manifesto, 2005.
You’ve lost the argument, and now the plot.
LieBore is Rotten
Lib – useless
Tories – shit on you (unless you’re ‘one of us’ – and that means, buddy, – landed or influential gentry.)
Never trust any politician!
Cut the amount the state loots for you from other peoples wallets has he?
In case you missed it the Kony bloke became the second internet entrepreneur this week to go postal on youtube. The condition apparently is called brief reactive psychosis. No word on why it seems to afflict people who make amateurish web videos.
Are they following the example of that Labour MP who filmed himself in his underpants?
I think he’d need to shed a pound or two first don’t you?
Who, Bryant?
If you’re that interested I’m sure he’d lend you a pair to sniff. You dirty bastard.
Is that what you get upto TAT?
Rachel Reeves making a Hunt of herself again on newsnight.
French Gunman or Mozzed-up Gunman?
There’s as big a difference between those as between an Englishman and the “british” mozzy terrorists who planted the 7th of July bombs in London.
There’s more to nationality than a piece of paper in the sweaty palm of some stone-age paedophile fresh off the transportation de jour from arsewipeistan.
Whats the difference between Richard Murphy (inconsequential accountant from Norfolk) and Baroness Ashton (EU Foreign Minister). Not much. They both spout totally inappropriate garbage which denigrates the sitaution in Toulouse. They should both be put out of work.
Iain Dale just earned his first credibility, in my eyes, by confronting some hideous labour bint with some much needed honesty on sky news!
Ann Botting is a bit of a purr.
“Ann Botting” is a media whore, as is the host of this place.
I’m a media whore
excellent contribution in the light of a national emergency
it seems the rich can call others as benefit cheats beause of their dependency on the state whilst the rich’s dependency on the state is far greater – without the population the rich would have nothing – no exploitation, no wars, no one to do their dirty work for them
I would think Paxman with Danny and Rachel will be a future classic , “you dont know do you ” ….. “whats your view on corporation tax , you must have a view” . I know some have a go for being harsh , but in fairness hes only getting an answer that is of suitable quality , perhaps lesson is dont go on major news show with cockwaffly answer .
News papers seem not to have liked it . That in part though is the problem , we are enduring steady as she goes , thinking it would be light at end of tunnel stage by now , i mean I can partially cheer my self thinking bloody hell if we had labours plan where would that £36bn in interest be comming from ? , but then knowing theres few years of sorting yet to do , you have to comprehend just how bad labour left things .
Just read feb borrowing double expectations , that doesnt sound good .
when does EU figs come in ?
Ben Bernanke wants EU banks to clean up and toughen balance sheets , dont stop there Ben tell em to cut our £50mn a day subsidiy and start making some cuts , womb chamber must be nearly ready (sobs) , I dont think I can ever be happy so long as high quality expensive spin is comming from that place .
let me tot up
sold 400 tonnes half of gold reserves at $1400 oz less than todays spot price
set national debt to over £1trn
lost EU rebate
Voted for increase EU subs to £50mn a day from £36mn day
managed to hide 5mn unemployed on benefits
sold rover for £1
Ended boom and bust …. and we have watch ed and ed show with poverty laden line of “too far too fast” … i think I need a lie down
I became an avid reader of order-order, especially during the MP’s expenses scandal.
In the last few months I stopped checking the site as frequently.
There has been a definite shift in the articles posted – and the link to the Daily Star is not a good move.
For me, the main appeal of the site was that it was NOT mainstream media.
But thanks anyway GF, I did enjoy it while it lasted.
Tax the old folks and reap a few hundred millions
(A drop in the bucket while Dave borrows billions?)
But, whatever you do, just don’t cut foreign aid
That’s cast-iron, it’s ring-fenced, a promise Dave made
And, Hush! Don’t dare whisper that word “immigration”
It’s a nice little earner, is courts translation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17463036
now that osborne has re-affirmed that the population are here to keep the rich happy I can’t wait for the day when the population stands up against them, these arrogant, delusional tyrants in government and their public sector footsoldiers
I was going to fire up my Twitter account and comment on Murphy’s vile, evil and self-centred comment. But then I thought: “Why sully my account with his particular brand of evil?”
Turned on the telly and Osborne is on, why did I get that sinking feeling thinking oh hell Gordy is back, between him and Camoron , it looks as if Bliar and Gordy have returned, were really screwed.
Osborne getting a right kicking from the press for his rich friendly budget
Its amazing how pensioners and the disabled caused the financial and banking crisis in this country even though most of them live in poverty. There’s no wonder Osborne gave something back to the wealthy, they must be having a very hard ttime.
How exactly are MPs coping with austerity?
MP’s and austerity two words that can never be used together, time to stop paying MP’s, helping the public is supposed to be a calling not a profession.
Speak up George we cant quite hear you.
Its quite a good idea. Why should the pensioners live high on the hog while sending the bill to their grandchildren?
Mr Brown did much more for the pensioners. The Hunt!
They put an equivalent of 7s or 34p rise on tobacco and now suddenly they have found that booze is bad for you, who’s making money out of this scam and how!.
These things are not good for you. Nanny and Vince know best.
Off to bed now,
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