This short video about dealing with bureaucrats really made me smile, I hope you like it! Posted on a wet and dismal May Bank Holiday.
Category: Political Stuff
Taxpayers Alliance Video
How long do you work for the tax man?
I believe this [see YouTube video below] should be an advert run between television programmes, then people might realise that being better off is not necessarily about earning more, it is equally about paying less, and without a shadow of doubt the elephant in the room on this one is, Taxation, by our Government.… Read the full article
AV Referendum
Being interested in the history of our nation, and one who feels we have no need to apologise to anyone for our doings in the past. I don’t much like the way we have to fit in with everything the EU decides, and I’m convinced that if we get a vote in favour of AV, the tendency will be towards more coalition type government, which in my view will cause us to slide yet further down the league of nations.… Read the full article
Woodland Concerns
I read with some interest the concerns of the Woodland Trust in an email sent to me earlier in the week, they [Woodland Trust] were raising the issue of the present Government’s [ConLib] commitment to sell some considerable acreage of forestry to the private sector. I have some serious doubts about this policy, not least because I have extensive knowledge of an estate in the west Yorkshire area, presently in the hands of a “private” concern.… Read the full article
Summer Solstice
Yesterday saw the start of summer time and to celebrate the event nature produced a dramatic sunset over the northern sky at Parlington, here is one picture from a collection I captured as the sun set! For those interested the image below is a satellite view of Parlington showing the sun rise and set along with the moon rise and set.… Read the full article
An Interesting Take on Climate Change
The Cock Beck in Full Flow under Aberford Bridge
The debate over man induced climate change continues with the new [ConDem] government making PC noises about costs associated with combatting AGW [Anthropogenic Global Warming]. To me the idea that they can do anything or that it is expedient given the evidence is a huge fabrication, but it keeps on rearing its “Hydra”, using a different head for each imagined fear: Sea Level Rises; Increased precipitation; glacier melt; artic ice sheet reduction; etc.,… Read the full article
Ready Set Go! Election 2010
Day two of the 2010 election campaign, and as I drove up past a rather sinister looking Triumphal Arch, see picture above, I took a few moments out to grab a shot of it. I believe it was trying to tell me something, it was erected as a rejection of the policies of Lord North and the monarch George III, with their unpopular civil war against the American Colonialists.… Read the full article
Approaching the General Election
The looming prospect of a General Election, leaves me in a quandary, I am desperate to see the back of the labour party, but I am equally unconvinced by the somewhat wet Conservative opposition. Labour have had thirteen years, and by any measure, we can see the wrecked economy, you only need to consider that the Government’s share of national spending has moved from around 36% at the time Labour took office in 1997 to around 52% today.… Read the full article
The Sting, the Pig and a bunch of MP’s
I watched that excellent film, The Sting, starring Paul Newman, (now sadly the late) and Robert Redford the other evening and it reminded me of the recent Channel Four Despatches programme in which Stephen Byers, Patricia Hewitt, Geof Hoon and Margaret Moran were set up in an undercover operation to reveal the murky goings on by our MP’s, using their influence to affect an outcome for a fee.… Read the full article
Why You’ve Never Heard of the Great Depression of 1920!
The following talk by Tom Woods at mises.org, is a refreshing take on dealing with a recession in a manner that does not involve government spending yet more of the taxpayers hard won earnings! The entire talk lasts around 47 minutes but is well worth listening to. The frankness of economic theory that the speaker exspouses makes me realise how the UK Government has made serious mistakes on our behalf with the quantative easing madness that has followed the equally horrendous bail out of the banks.… Read the full article