Tories call for 10 pc rise in tax on drink
The Conservative Party, in their never ending attempts to ape the left-of-centre in the UK, are now going for collective punishment. Because some people cannot handle their drink, everyone who drinks is going to be fined another 10pc on the cost of their booze. Instead of going after the cretins who are violent drunks we all have to suffer. Fair?
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Update: My beloved suggested it might not be the wisest move to announce that a punative tax before the election. Even better this is a punative tax that will hurt everyone, whatever their income, equally. Not the most intelligent way to get elected methinks.
Update II: The Sun declares it Pint Potty.
Update III: Iain Dale promises us that this ludicrous idea, his words, has not been accepted by Cameron.
Update IV: Taking Liberties takes a shot at this idea as well.
Update V: Simon Heffer writes about this and things get ugly in the comments.
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Very much a sign of the times. My wife, K T Dodge (nee Kim Benson), now has herself a blog over at blogsplat. We are starting out with the easy blogger system so we can later transition her to an MT blog. Today she has written a pretty neat post on audiitoning for acting gigs which bizarrely involves “shaking like a jelly.”
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We all know that Muslims in the UK feel persecuted. They tell us so, frequently. But The Telegraph looks at the evidence and comes to a different conclusion. The arrest of Middle Eastern medics in connection with the car bombings raises…
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Envirofascism for the simple…
A page 3 girl was just on Sky talking about climate change. She had a basic grasp of it and was concerned because “the weather changes all the time.”
She was on plugging her tips for saving the planet.
When asked if it should be compulsory by the host: “yeah I think we should get the the government involved and it should be compulsory.”
The IQ of a fence post and still able to grasp the envirofascist message. So young, so pretty and yet so authoritarian.
Would it surprise anyone to know that Camoron wants to meet her?
The actress in the house had this writer in stiches as she mimicked the idiot.
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John Wesley presents 14 Ways To Procrastinate Productively posted at Pick the Brain.
Lexi Sundell presents Road Reiki For Travelers posted at Energies of Creation.
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