Dim Dave Loses in Nailbiter Tussle!

Just a quickie before I depart for a night in Brighton with the little 'Memsahib' (and don't bother with the joke, 'NIB'!) but in the low game of politics you have to hand it to 'ur wee Gordie' for stiffing 'Dim Dave' (and that other public school twit who pretends to be a shadow chancellor) by announcing, right at the very end of his budget statement, a 2p cut in income tax.  'Dim Dave' deserves the humiliation and no amount of bluster about it being a con-trick will leave him looking anything other than a wet-behind-the-ears amateur.  He should have followed the sentiment of his party, if he couldn't manage to understand the economic benefits of low taxes for himself, by declaring in favour of tax cuts from the very beginning but instead he followed the advice of his equally useless spin-doctors who warned him that Labour would smear such a  policy with scare stories that the Tories would decimate the NHS.  Now, his cowardice has resulted in him being "hoist with his own petard" - and where have I heard that recently?

Before anyone rushes to tell me that 'ur wee Gordie's'  tax 'cut' is anything but a cut, don't bother, I know, but it is still brilliant politics and leaves 'Dim Dave' looking utterly useless.  Perhaps he should ask a 'hoodie' to come and hug him for comfort!  Mind you, the other people who are going to look equally stupid are the drones on the Labour benches who cheered the announcement to the rafters.  They have yet to realise that the people who will end up paying more tax are the poor, now that the 10% band (introduced by 'ur wee Gordie'!) has been abolished.  The latest estimate I heard was that some one on wages of £8k - £15k pa are likely to be £250 a year worse off which is a big hit on that sort of income - and Labour MPs cheered!   

Feeling depressed at the knowledge that our 'Mother of Parliaments' is filled with people who would struggle to run a parish council? You should do - you voted for them!

Comments

[Planeshift]

Spot on.

I'm one of those few people who will be marginally better off, but I'll only waste the money on beer anyway. However I didn't vote for them, won't vote for them next time and most of the country didn't either. Its our electoral system that put them in.

[David Duff]

Well done, 'PS', but do remember, money is never wasted! Or to be precise, it is never wasted if you spend it on goods or services (including beer!) because it circulates and thus everyone earns. It is true that if you buy gold and bury it in the garden that does hardly anyone any good, except the gold producers! Very occasionally that might be a good idea, but not today, I think.