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New political party forming

Written on 25 September 2010. Posted in Politics.

“The crisis facing our country needs a new approach,” says spokesman. A new political party with the slogan ‘No taxation without repression’ has been formed by rebel MPs taking a lead from Sarah Palin’s runaway success in America . Although too late to have a conference this year, the new party plan to issue a Press Release stating their objectives. We have been fortunate...

Government ducks Council Tax revalautions

Written on 25 September 2010. Posted in Taxation.

There will be no revaluation of Council Tax bands in England during the current parliament, the coalition government has said. This looks like cowardice but we should welcome the news nevertheless. Council Tax is a badly conceived property tax and investment in a revaluation would have simply provided another excuse for avoiding the real reform that is needed.

World poverty talking shop

Written on 21 September 2010. Posted in Welfare.

World leaders are meeting at the United Nations in New York for a three-day summit (20-22 September) on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the main framework for development policy over the past decade, with the aim of eliminating poverty. Ten years after their launch, and five years before the target date, many of these goals – especially those on child and maternal health –...

Infrastructure projects must not be cut

Written on 20 September 2010. Posted in Public Transport.

Dodgy Dossier reports that the CBI have issued a warning that Britain’s future economic prospects will be severely damaged if the Government goes ahead with planned cuts of £30bn in road, rail and building projects. These feelings were echoed by the Chairman of the Landed Gentry Association who, at a hastily called Press Conference this morning, said,

Swedish election result stalemate

Written on 19 September 2010. Posted in Politics.

The Swedish election result has produced no overall majority for the two main party groupings. The alliance parties (Moderaterna, Centerpartiet, Folkpartiet, Kristdemokraterna), have a combined strength of 49% in the Swedish parliament, the Riksdag. The Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterna) have done badly, with only 30% of the votes, a drop of 5% since 2006. This leaves them no longer the largest...

Whither welfare?

Written on 17 September 2010. Posted in Welfare.

In Britain as elsewhere in the west, the rising cost of welfare has reached the point that governments are looking for reform. Ian Duncan-Smith, for instance, the welfare secretary wants to take all those complex, creaking benefits and merge them into a single, simple system – a system which he plans to call a universal credit. It is a good idea but is not going to achieve anything worthwhile....

We were right about mass unemployment

Written on 14 September 2010. Posted in Economics.

Just two years ago we predicted that unemployment would soon rise about two million. It now stands at 2.8 million, so our estimate was evidently on the cautious side. Nobody in a position of power and influence has so far made the connection between unemployment and land tenure.

Last Night of the Proms

Written on 10 September 2010. Posted in History.

Rule Britannia – but who wants waves? On Saturday the Royal Albert Hall will ring to the stirring refrains of Rule Britannia in the belief that ‘Britons never shall be slaves.’ Far be it for us to spoil the party, but a moment’s thought will show how easily we are beguiled into thinking we are free.

Britain needs a Right of Public Access to Land

Written on 8 September 2010. Posted in Home-Owner-Ism.

An ex-banker to the Queen has urged a public inquiry to allow him to close part of Chaucer’s Pilgrims Way that runs over his estate by telling inspectors they should remember they are not in Zimbabwe or Cuba or Scotland. Timothy Steel who is the former vice chairman of the Queens investment bankers Cazenove has become embroiled in a battle with villagers over the ancient paths across the woodlands...

Labour leadership candidate speaks up for LVT

Written on 26 August 2010. Posted in Politics.

Be prepared! Anyone advocating LVT needs to have ready answers to the objections given here in this article speaking up for LVT. Better still, we need to have a programme for the introduction of LVT that is not vulnerable to these objections. Many of them are actually invalidated if LVT is based on annual instead of capital values.

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