The tax-payers are revolting!

I apologise for the lack of productivity here at 'Blog Factory # 666' but we shall hit our quota by means of that fine old socialist (or NuLabour) tradition of fiddling the figures!  Alas, affairs at Elsinore are rapidly approaching a conclusion and "that old common arbitrator, Time" is at a premium.  The production ends on March 17th at which time I will then indulge myself in a nervous breakdown but after that the mighty organ of Duff and Nonsense will once again roar forth the truth to nations.  I just hope they're all paying attention!

For the reasons stated above I have not had much time to read the prints recently but am I alone in detecting the first murmurs of revolt from the tax-payers?  There has been that howl of protest over the government's proposal to tax the use of roads.  Any time now, those Jobsworths from the Town Hall will be demanding entry to our homes in order to tax the improvements we have made to them, to say nothing of filming our environments so as to raise even further taxes on those who have worked hard to buy a house in a pleasant area.

I raise the question now because in the next two to three years there will be an election and the choice will be between that half-mad, nail-biting Jock who has spent (I use the word advisedly)  the last ten years picking our pockets so deftly that only now are people realising it, and then throwing it at bloated, useless Nationalised Health and Education Services which are worse than those of many self-respecting Third World countries; or, 'Dave' Cameron, the dope (-smoking) man-of-a-thousand-faces who leads what purports to be the Conservative party.  He has been very cagey on the subject of tax.  Either he is a lying liar and will turn out to be Mrs. Thatcher in drag (er, not quite the right metaphor but you know what I mean) or he really is as dim as only some Old Etonians can be.  But what a chance for the UKIPs and the BNP-ers if they come out boldly and tell us all that they will privatise everything they can lay their hands on and give us back our money!

Comments

[Clairwil]

No idea about UKIP but the BNP are more likely to nationalise everything if the following is anything to go by.

http://www.bnp.org.uk/columnists/brimstone2.php?leeId=78

'We will re-nationalise essential industries that have demonstrated a systemic failure of efficiency under privatisation and we will also seize back those industries from the corporate pension plunderers who have robbed workers of their pensions with minimal compensation based on their projected pensions shortfalls being subtracted from the current market price.'

[David Duff]

Thus proving yet again my contention that fascists are socialists. The moans and groans from the socialists when I constantly point this out are just some of the things that bring a wintry smile to my usually granite features. After all, as I delight to rub in to open wounds, Hitler's mob called themselves National *Socialists*!

[N.I.B.]

I'd imagine they have some funny ideas about foreign ownership and investment, too. The BNP, that is.

Trouble is, though, people generally hate the idea of privatisation even more than they hate the idea of paying taxes. Why? Because we let charlatans at the Adam Smith (is rolling in his grave) Institute tell us how to do them. Et voila, lots and lots and lots of our tax money is hoovered directly into private pockets.

[David Duff]

"... lots and lots and lots of our tax money is hoovered directly into private pockets."

If I understand you right, 'NIB', you are complaining that money taken from "private pockets" has been returned to "private pockets" but not the *same* "private pockets". This is undoubtedly true but are we to infer that you would prefer the money to remain in 'state pockets'? Nor do you express any opinion on the *original* piece of embezzlement in which the state first dipped its hands into "private pockets".

As to the BNP, in my opinion they have some very *un*-funny ideas and I suspect that they are too dim and socialist (the two tend to go together) to think of giving us our money back.

[N.I.B.]

"Nor do you express any opinion on the *original* piece of embezzlement."

Oh, sorry, is this one of your rules now? "Commenters may not complain about Think Tank fools who dream up botched, massively expensive privatisation schemes, *unless* they display their 'Political Purity' by going right back to first principles."

Commissar Duff has, indeed, spoken!

[David Duff]

Dearie me (er, to quote a phrase!), a bit touchy this morning aren't we, 'NIB'? I was only asking!

[N.I.B.]

My humblest apologies. I'm so, so, so sorry, Commissar Duff. I shan't post my impure thoughts here, ever again. Please, put down that ice pick...

[David Duff]

And you were the one telling *me*, over at Teabag's place, not do the 'funnies'.

Plodding, 'NIB', plodding!

[N.I.B.]

Yes, it was a clunking effort on my part, but... I notice you don't express any opinion on the the acceptability, or otherwise, of stabbing political opponents with ice-picks.

I leave the reader to draw their own conclusion!

[David Duff]

"the acceptability, or otherwise, of stabbing political opponents with ice-picks"

"It would all depend, 'NIB'", he said, fingering the tip of his ice-pick, pursing his lips and narrowing his eyes!