Comments on: Media round-up: Taxing times for “Incapability Brown”

By: henry

henry — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:21:17 +0000

I think Mr Gordon Brown is doing a very good job given the circumstances. Oil prices are too high and that’s what’s really hurting the economy world wide. Nobody has the answer in thier pocket. Maybe invade Iran, or Venezuela?

By: bs carter

bs carter — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:28:30 +0000

its all a clever plot by the scottish MPs to bring down the English. I can only hope for Scottish independance asap, so they can all go back and fend for themselves, rather than relying on English taxes to bail them out.

By: William Fowler

William Fowler — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:55:30 +0000

The Rich and Powerful are running away with all the money.

By: Mike T

Mike T — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:17:21 +0000

This piece of political nonsense speaks volumes about the people involved.

First: Brown became so used to fiddling the tax system to maximise his take while hiding the fact behind a wall of
doubletalk and obscure detail (witness the biggest fraud of all, the theft of £5 billion per year from private pension funds, presented in a single brief sentence during his 1997 budget speech as “a change to the payment of advance corporation tax”) that he completely lost touch with the real world. It is glaringly obvious to anyone with more than one brain cell that replacing a 10% tax rate with a 20% tax rate means that the people whose income fell largely within the 10% band will have to pay more tax. If they don’t, why bother to change it?

Second: advance notice of the change was announced by Brown in 2007 (as part of his routine policy of announcing everything he does at least twice). I’m not an accountant or numbers man by any stretch, but saw the result immediately. But our self-styled guardians of the public interest in parliament and the media didn’t spot it until it actually happened. Brain dead, couldn’t give a toss, or cynically waiting to use it as ammunition against Brown and bollocks to those who would have to pay it?

A pox on all their houses, is the only adequate response to their current hypocritical posturing.

By: Loris

Loris — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:54:29 +0000

The tragedy of Brown and his entourge, that thier colapse is taking the rest of the country with it. The lack of vision, compounded with arrogance and sheer crass ignorance is costing the taxpayers billions.

By: Grant

Grant — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:34:37 +0000

Labour are fast becoming dead in the water. Their best hope to cling onto power is for them to oust Brown, and a new leader call an election as soon as they are in office.
Although, surely even the tories couldn’t throw this one away.