PIC ‘N’ MIX
Posted by Stelios Theocharous January 22, 2011 - 5:49 pm
I think sometimes the fairest tax the UK government can put up is fuel tax because in the end it equally affects everybody, however it doesn’t mean that these extortionate prices we currently pay with another 4p a litre coming in April is fair.
The United Kingdom is currently in debt and just the other week it topped £1 Trillion, and if your not sure what that looks like on paper it this….£1,000,000,000,000
Figures suggest that it increases by £7000 every second, and it is a known fact that it will take decades not years to shake of this debt.
The unfortunate thing is that it is the ordinary people that have to pay for this enormous debt, mostly our customers through buying food, putting petrol in to do the school run or even when they pop onto the bus.
I seen on the news today that a environmental campaigner was in favour of the 4p duty increase in April because he thinks people will start using cars less and use more public transport. I was watching it thinking what an absolute tool, public transport is going to be too expensive too, with fuel being energy and all that.
However the global crisis with food is getting worse all the time, last year and this year we have global catastrophes which have pushed food prices further than anyone imagined. First there was the poor harvest from USA, then Russia had a very poor harvest, so we were all waiting for the Australian wheat harvest to come through and drop the global wheat price a little and then La Nina rainstorm struck and you all seen the news.
We all have to accept that we live in a world where food now competes with energy on many different levels, you may not like it but we have no choice. People invest there money into food commodities including wheat, corn and coffee to name a few and those people investing want to make money on there return.
There is a lot of people blaming the coalition government, although we owe that much money as a country we have to remember we are ‘still’ a very wealthy country and when we go to supermarkets there is still food on the shelves and we can still afford to buy them.
Campaign Group FairFuel UK are campaigning hard to the Government, they say that we might even see fuel blockages like we had in 2008. I wonder when the camels back will break?
Its all about priority, what deserves what more than the other? the answer is yours.
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Very interesting.
UK is the 6th richest country in the world worth $2,279,000,000,000 not bad for a island the size of a postage stamp. The problem is that this government don’t care about poor folk they are just disposable porn’s in the master plan to make the rich richer. Problem is that when you own a fish and chip shop its these porn’s that make up the majority of our customers. Folk in our trade seems to think they are above the average Joe and that they are high and mighty business men. Well wake up and smell the roses guys NO CUSTOMERS NO MONEY
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7133943.ece
They have never had it so good. Almost four-fifths of the new cabinet are millionaires, according to an analysis by The Sunday Times.
As the government prepares to wield the axe on public spending, research reveals that 18 of the 23 full-time cabinet members have seven-figure fortunes, collectively worth about £50m.
Many of those with the biggest assets are little-known figures whose wealth is self-made. David Cameron, the Old Etonian prime minister, is relative small fry: his £3.4m estimated fortune puts him only in sixth place in the ministerial rich list.
The coalition cabinet is at least £15m richer than its Labour predecessor when property values, business interests and shareholdings are taken into account.
Top of the list is Philip Hammond, 54, the new transport secretary, with an estimated fortune of £7.1m. He made the biggest slice of his wealth through the property developer Castlemead, which he co-founded before entering parliament in 1997.
Hammond’s 85% stake in the firm, plus dividends over the past five years, add up to £3m. He also owns a £2m mansion — complete with tennis court and swimming pool — in his Surrey constituency and a £2.1m house in Chelsea.
Caroline Spelman, 52, the environment secretary, has assets with her husband worth about £5m, including a red-brick mansion with a sweeping driveway near Solihull in the West Midlands valued at £2m.
In third place is the chancellor, George Osborne, 39, who is tasked with slashing Britain’s forecast £156 billion budget deficit. He benefits from a 15% stake in his family’s upmarket wallpaper business, Osborne & Little, a firm valued at £12m.
Although Osborne owes much of his wealth to inheritance, other cabinet members have achieved financial success by their own means. They include Jeremy Hunt, 43, the culture secretary, who co-founded an educational publisher called Hotcourses after an earlier venture exporting marmalade to Japan flopped.
The company employs 180 people, with Hunt’s stake valued at £3.25m. Along with other income and property, his net worth is estimated at £4.4m — although a friend claimed this was a “massive overestimate”.
The Liberal Democrats also have their fair proportion of cabinet millionaires. Chris Huhne, the energy secretary, is a former student radical who ran a business assessing financial risk before switching to politics. He once invested in an Egyptian gold mine, but property accounts for much of his £3m estimated fortune. Huhne, 55, owns a Regency house in south London, valued at £1.8m, as well as five buy-to-let properties and a constituency home in Eastleigh, Hampshire.
The deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, 43, a banker’s son with a highly paid lawyer wife, is reckoned to be worth about £1.8m. This is based on homes in London and his Sheffield constituency and the sale of a flat in Brussels that Clegg used as an MEP.
David Laws, 44, the chief secretary to the Treasury, is also a millionaire thanks to a seven-year career as a senior executive in investment banking at JP Morgan and Barclays. City analysts conservatively estimate his wealth at £1.3m.
More familiar names who sneak into the top 10 are William Hague, the foreign secretary, and Ken Clarke, the justice secretary, who earned £150,000 a year as deputy chairman of British American Tobacco before returning to the front bench.
Theresa May, the new home secretary, makes it onto the list by dint of the fact that her constituency property alone is valued at about £1m.