Tories to RETRY bill to make you pay for your NHS Fri 15 June
As the SKWAWKBOX covered on Friday, Tory MPs made an attempt to pass a bill yesterday to allow NHS patients to be charged for their treatment – a move described […]
Tag Archives: taxation
Should Labour take Britain out of Europe?
A couple of weeks ago, Labour voted with Tory rebels to pass a motion demanding a cut in Britain’s contribution to the EU budget, after David Cameron had indicated that […]
How to ensure a living wage or better without increasing prices
I sometimes wonder at the lack of imagination shown by many of our politicians on key issues, and the ensuing willingness to accept the status quo. Or perhaps it’s that […]
Cameron CPC2012: a litany of lies, hypocrisy and misdirection
I have to confess, I’ve been dreading David Cameron’s speech to the 2012 Conservative party conference over the last few days. Not because I feared he’d be convincing or would […]
Every finger Osborne pointed was 3 back at the Tories
I’ve been a bit out of circulation since yesterday evening because of work travel, so maybe someone else has already done this. But maybe not. Most of the media reports […]
Rees-Mogg’s BBC QT 38%/1%/26% – what he WASN’T telling you
The record rains earlier this week led to a curious situation where a block of flats was evacuated because of a flood. You might think that a flood wouldn’t present […]
A radical socialist idea: abolish corporation tax?
I wrote a couple of days ago about how taxation should properly be seen as a rent that is paid for the privilege of living in a well-structured, orderly society, […]
‘Tax freedom’ – is tax really oppression, or more like rent?
A commenter on my blog mentioned the ‘tax freedom day‘ announced regularly by the Adam Smith Institute, a right-wing policy think-tank that aims to extend free-market principles. The principle of […]
It’s all about demand pt 2: why most companies won’t flee proper tax or a living wage
This post is probably not going to be read as widely as my post at the weekend about Danny Boyle and the message of his Olympic opening ceremony to the […]
The radical imperative: who dares, wins
There’s some necessary scene-setting in this post – context that has to be grasped for the main point to make sense. I don’t think this is going to be my […]