The Telegraph, quick out of the blocks reckon £158 extra a year (£14 rounded up a month) and they set off the scaremongering with the fact that people will cut back on their food to subsidize their luxury goods (broadband, sky, mobile phones etc).

I think there is something wrong with society that they will think about a shiny iPhone contract ahead of the food on their child’s plate.

I looked at my shopping bill for last week and the week before, the VAT I paid for a weeks shopping for my family came to £1.10 (for the Christmas week shop) and the 78p for the week before.  I know this because where I shop (Booth’s), they tell you what is taxed and what isn’t (after you’ve bought it of course).

I do like my fresh orange juice (VAT Rated), that is the only item on my weekly shop that is taxed (I could buy oranges and squeeze them myself but it’s not cost efficient).

Avoiding tax on your weekly shop is easy.  STOP BUYING READY MEALS, STOP BUYING CRISPS, STOP BUYING CHOCOLATE.  Processed foods attract tax, make things from scratch for yourself and you’ll find that your weekly shopping bill is taxed less.

The VAT going up is nothing compared to the hikes that rail users are incurring and road users are incurring on their fuel bills.

Less tax, less state interference will help everyone.

As someone with no holiday’s left until April, I am now condemned to work these 3 useless days between Xmas & New Year.  What a complete waste of my time and company resources.

Oh well, here’s hoping for a 3pm knock off.

In other news Bookstart gets reinstated… ffs

The one linked below is ‘Sharp rise in serious flu cases prompts jab question’, immediately you think the worst case scenario, pandemic.

Yet the 3rd paragraph of the article states, ‘But the total number of cases is in line with what would be expected’.

So they made a non-event article with a headline of lies.  We pay for this shit…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12075039

http://bbc.in/gOUwh1

Is stuff like this really news?  The Liberal left do not like the Conservative right, well really, what would anyone expect?

I think Lembit Opik is a bit of a cock, but I found my self nodding along during BBC Breakfast to what he said, that these revelations in the Telegraph will hinder MP & Constituent relations as MPs will now not talk frankly to the voters, the Vince Cable article yesterday was important, but the fact that a Lib Dem MP thinks George Osbourne is a toff really isn’t news to anyone…

I don’t like people where I work, but for the sake of the business I have to get on with them…

Tomorrow, George Osbourne doesn’t like the way Nick Clegg parts his hair EXCLUSIVE!

UPDATE: In the same paper…

The left hate Sky because they can never control it, the BBC on the other hand…

It’s hardly surprising that some Liberal MPs are not to happy with some of the draconian changes they are being forced to implement.

What I find a disgrace is the papers and tv media’s outcry because an MP dared to say what was on his mind.

MPs will no doubt return to saying the opposite or avoiding the questions from next week…

http://bit.ly/ih2e8N

http://bit.ly/ggiZDw

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8

As an ex-drugs minister I find it astounding that only now can he stand up when he has no power and speak his mind about this situation that we find ourselves in and to my mind he still has it completely wrong on all counts.

Having listened to Nicky Cambell give him the rub down on 5 Live this morning and the kicking he got on BBC Breakfast at the hands of an expert, I find it quite amusing that he hasn’t yet slunk away back to his constituency to lick his wounds.

Anyone with half a brain would come to understand that legalising hard drugs is just wrong.

Drug production in foreign countries is illegal, the government would be dealing with criminals, that in itself is enough for me to make my mind up as to whether we should make it legal.

Our welfare system already entices lots of immigrants to the streets paved with gold, it would be worse if the streets where paved with white powder.

Bob also said that to control the drug the government would distribute it via pharmacies or doctors on prescription.  My question is how is this going to get rid of the underworld element?  The drug will still have social implications attached to it regardless of whether it is legal or not.  So those who don’t want to be seen as drug users will still hide the fact in the way that they do now.  As these drugs will be on prescription, then surely that means people will be denied the drugs on grounds.

Poorly thought through, poorly presented, yet another labour idea that would have enslaved the masses into government control at cost to taxpayers.