Gordon Brown - The Taxman Cometh & Newton Here I Come!

30/03/2009 by Steve Tierney.

Gordon Brown - The Taxman Cometh
Our Prime Minister is truly a master of squeezing every penny he possibly can from anybody who has the temerity to be productive.  It never ceases to amaze me the new and devious ways he invents to get our cash.  All of our cash.  Not just the rich, not just the middle-classes, he taps each and every one of us, siphoning off huge portions of our hard-earned pounds.  It wouldn’t be so bad if he did something decent with it like actually improve our schools or hospitals.  But Labour’s idea of ‘improvement’ is to set up a body of overseers and introduce a stack of tick-box forms.  Even when he hands money to the non-productive section of society he dresses it up as a generous boon from the government.  Notice he never mentions that he has created a benefits trap.  Anybody unlucky enough to have fallen into it has little chance of ever escaping.  Another ‘client’ for the government’s ongoing social experiment.  It got me thinking.  He loves the inheritance tax because as far as Gordon is concerned you shouldn’t even be able to escape his icy grip in death.  He loves borrowing because that lets him tax people who haven’t even been born yet. 

That is our Prime Minister in a nutshell.  Tax the Womb.  Tax the Tomb.  It never ends.

Newton Here I Come!
If you’ve read any of my earlier blog entries you probably know that I am standing as the Conservative Candidate for the Roman Bank and Peckover Ward of Cambridgeshire’s County Council.  The ‘proper’ campaign starts at the end of April.  I’ve been out and about in the area since I was selected last year making sure people get to know me and I have a good understanding of the views and concerns of my neighbours in the ward.  Over the last two weeks I’ve been delivering my “In Touch” newsletter to the people of Leverington.  I’ve finished that now and this week my team and I will be in and around Newton delivering door-to-door there.  If you live in Newton and happen to see me, please do feel free to say “Hello!”  If you’ve got any views or comments, I welcome the communication!  I hope I didn’t miss anybody but if you live in Leverington and for some reason have not received your “In Touch” newsletter, please let me know and I’ll drop one in to you personally.

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