Gordon Brown And Rubbish Taxes
THE Daily Mail’s front-page headline says it all: “RUBBISH TAX WILL BE DUMPED.”
It’s a decent pun on Gordon Brown’s tax on household waste. And the pay-as-you-throw tax will be dumped.
The Mail has the scoop.
Or as the BBC puts it:
Trials of a scheme to tax householders who throw away too much rubbish are to forge ahead, Downing Street has said.
The Mail, of course, didn’t say which rubbish tax Brown would dump, only that he will…
May 5th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Wish they’d give a rebate for those who recycle stuff –hey - would that include NuLab? After a launder and a spell in any High St. charity shop they could emerge as - drumroll -the NuTory
Where can I copyright that plan? I am a disgusting Old Tory capitalist type after all
May 5th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
You might have some problems in convincing a judge that this was your intellectual property; s/he’d probably point out that pols have been doing it since the dawn of time.
Might be worth a try, though…
May 5th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
I thought that Rubbish Tax referred to the recent decision to tax the lower-paid sector of society more harshly by abolishing the 10p rate, henceforth to be known as The Prole Tax.
May 5th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
A little song my children made up and used to sing while wheeling out the bin
‘we are the been men, been men, been men
we are the been men,
mission bin accomplished’
Nu labour has been and gone with the rubbish.
May 5th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
How can you have a Rubbish Tax, isn”t the removal of rubbish what we pay the huge Council Tax to include??????
No wonder Britain is the most taxed Country in the Worls.
May 5th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Anyone bin noticing NuLabour’s interest in measurement -
weightwatching and wastewatching rubbish
weightwatching and waistwatching obesity.
Nulabour has bin picking on some householders? Now whose vote does not matter?