Sunday, June 24, 2007
Gordon Brown is now Leader
To my complete and utter amazement Gordon Brown has been elected leader of New Labour. In his maiden speech he said that he would address issues such as health, education and affordable housing. Given that the definition of "affordable" has been hijacked by property developers to mean "You must be having a laugh if you think you can afford this".
It is heartening to know that there are thousands of people out there earning more money than the rest of us but paying only 10% tax. Alongside the pensions bombshell, this is another fine achievement by Gordon Brown.
It is heartening to know that there are thousands of people out there earning more money than the rest of us but paying only 10% tax. Alongside the pensions bombshell, this is another fine achievement by Gordon Brown.
Labels: British Politics, New Labour, Property Developers, taxpayers
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Who are the biggest State scroungers?
I checked out this short article in Socialist Worker.
It caused me to question who are the biggest State Scroungers - big corporations or the disabled and the unemployed. Funny that a banker, David Freud, is pointing the finger here!
Now check this out, on his own admission when working for the Channel Tunnel he commented in hindsight
""We were predicting that on Eurostar there would be 21 million passengers (annually)," admits David Freud of Warburg, the investment house which sold Eurotunnel shares to the public.
The actual figure was less than a third of that.
"So the traffic forecasts were not just out by a little bit. They were completely potty; they were nowhere."
Source BBC
This man has reviewed welfare reform insisting that private interests kick the unemployed and disbled back to work. Oh well, there is a saying, if you point your finger at the funeral it will drop off
It caused me to question who are the biggest State Scroungers - big corporations or the disabled and the unemployed. Funny that a banker, David Freud, is pointing the finger here!
Now check this out, on his own admission when working for the Channel Tunnel he commented in hindsight
""We were predicting that on Eurostar there would be 21 million passengers (annually)," admits David Freud of Warburg, the investment house which sold Eurotunnel shares to the public.
The actual figure was less than a third of that.
"So the traffic forecasts were not just out by a little bit. They were completely potty; they were nowhere."
Source BBC
This man has reviewed welfare reform insisting that private interests kick the unemployed and disbled back to work. Oh well, there is a saying, if you point your finger at the funeral it will drop off
Labels: corporate, Economics, money, politics, scroungers, taxpayers
