Entries from Steve Hemingway tagged with 'politics'
How much do you pay in green taxes?
I'm too lazy to write anything, so I cribbed this from the Taxpayers Alliance site....
National Insurance - a tax on workers
The Tories are having a go at the other lot for putting up NICs, again. The other lot point out that the Tories did it when they had a chance. They also point out that unemployment does not seem...
Local campaigning
Grant Shapps is the MP for the constituency immediately to the south of Knebworth. It's interesting to see how this is put together. Note that there is plent of coverage of hospital (preventing the closure of), post offices (ditto),...
The budget
Darling's budget was the usual politics-as-theatre show that so damages politics as a means of deciding about things in a grown-up way. As usual it comes down to individual bloggers like Wat Tyler and independent pressure groups like the...
Government of the people, by the disintegrating, for the bankers
Read This article by Simon Jenkins. He points out that banks and bankers have done very well indeed out of the bailouts that have characterised the response to the 2007 credit crunch. I agree with everything that Simon Jenkins...
Not so much Robin Hood as Robbin' Blind
A tax on FX (and possibly other) financial transactions is spectacularly bad. Generally all new taxes are bad, as at least the winners and losers from the old taxes have their gains and losses capitalised and stable. This article from...
Democracy Club - go to a meeting near you!
View Locations of Democracy Club events TONIGHT. All welcome in a larger map Read all about it here....
Let try to help Gordon 'get it' (Web 2.0 or whatever)
Slightly amazingly, 10 Downing St. decided to approve my proposed petition: "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Allow comments to be made on all YouTube videos uploaded by 10 Downing Street.". You can see it on the Downing...
They Need Your Money
I thought it was just me, but actually almost everyone who watches these HB YouTube videos hates the woman. Click on the video to get to Youtube and follow the links to related videos. I think it's because she...
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