What's the solution? (genuine question with no barbs attached here Norcon - we've had our little play for today )The government grabs over 50% of what we earn in some form of tax or another.
Yet thats not enough. Thay have to borrow billions.
So the biggest back hander they give you at the end of the day is debt.
Crikey, I'd forgotten about that little beauty What was the name of the fella who originally led to the use of this phrase?Could be deemed sexist and therefore offensive.
Can you turn them off with the flick of a microswitch when everything is up to temperature?Its all them condensing boilers gushing out bloody plumes of thick white smoke that is definitely causing the Global warming, I would say bring back the real log fires!
Can you turn them off with the flick of a microswitch when everything is up to temperature?Its all them condensing boilers gushing out bloody plumes of thick white smoke that is definitely causing the Global warming, I would say bring back the real log fires!
Three cheers for smog. Hip hip hipCan you turn them off with the flick of a microswitch when everything is up to temperature?Its all them condensing boilers gushing out bloody plumes of thick white smoke that is definitely causing the Global warming, I would say bring back the real log fires!
No, but you get the real smell and smoke!
If its not due to global warming where are all these floods coming from, we never had this many in the past.
Whether one believes the global warming theory or not it seems to me that polititians have missed a trick here. They could introduce an "Unnecessary transport " tax which would please the envoirmentalists and result in much less fueloil being burned in ships as tat was shipped back and forth across the globe and would also keep jobs and manufacturing at home or would that policy effect the 1% of billionares who make their fortune from trade?He was reasonably firm in that it was suggested to Thatcher back then that the rise of China was inevitable and given the population which was expected to rise (as wealth grew) despite the child ban would drain the '1st' world of resource and there would be a shift of power towards the East.
The global warming scare was a way of trying to reduce dependency on natural resources and also try to slow China's development. (currently increasing consumption of energy at the rate equivalent of opening coal fired power stations a week)
Whether one believes the global warming theory or not it seems to me that polititians have missed a trick here. They could introduce an "Unnecessary transport " tax which would please the envoirmentalists and result in much less fueloil being burned in ships as tat was shipped back and forth across the globe and would also keep jobs and manufacturing at home or would that policy effect the 1% of billionares who make their fortune from trade?He was reasonably firm in that it was suggested to Thatcher back then that the rise of China was inevitable and given the population which was expected to rise (as wealth grew) despite the child ban would drain the '1st' world of resource and there would be a shift of power towards the East.
The global warming scare was a way of trying to reduce dependency on natural resources and also try to slow China's development. (currently increasing consumption of energy at the rate equivalent of opening coal fired power stations a week)
An additional lorry tax per road mile would certainly encourage us to use local produce instead of shifting food around the country. The roads would last a lot longer, car journeys would be faster, and almost certainly a lot safer. So lots of benefits, you might lose the economies of scale and you wouldn't be able to demand out of season fruit and veg, but we got on fine like that thirty odd years ago.
The road haulage industry is a powerful lobby though and certainly a load of jobs in the business. But forcing large trucks off the road using taxes would almost certainly be beneficial for all sorts of reasons.