From: "Neil Francis", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I will gladly put up with the whole list of "minor discomforts" that you
>mention,
Minor now - as I say lets see how the people fare when the
food runs out on Tesco's shelves. We are already having the
'for the sake of the children/disabled/sick/elderly' arguments
thrown around because of this dispute.
>Neal, for an opportunity to teach the politicians a lesson
>that, even when they are the elected government, they do not have a
>mandate to do what they like for five years - only a mandate to deliver
>what they promised in the manifesto and an increased taxation was not
>one of the "promises"!
They do - thats the system we are all happy to sign up to
be able to carry on with our lives. The manifesto is a high
level blueprint - the low level detail of running the system
is left to your elected government. If you don't like it kick
em out next time round. Steve has been rattling on about
basic taxation theories all along this thread. If anybody
could not work out that less direct taxation did not equal
more indirect taxation to balance a countries budget and
provide the services we all demand then they want to go take
some basic maths lessons. It may seem unfair that specific
indirect tax is seemingly piled into specific areas but
wherever you put it you are going to piss someone off.
>As for the statement that "things should be done by peaceful protests",
>our protest marches were peaceful and look where that got us!
Exactly the point I made in my 'Irony' reply further up the
thread. I agree with you that shooters tactics have indeed
got them nowhere. The irony referred to is that after two
complete bans in the space of a decade we still have the
same people effectively running UK shooting now as then. You
know the response received when a suggestion was made to
remove one of these people. So why do shooters so eagerly
support the direct action of truckers whilst not even
having the stomach to take any equivalent action
in the privacy and safety of their own domain? There is
an old saying, derogatory in nature, - 'If you can't do -
teach'. It seems we have something similar here - 'If you
can't do - support'.
>I am looking forward to this "situation" developing nicely into a
>General Strike, followed by General Election, so we better give an
>unmistakable message to the Tories that they better watch their step
Am I reading this right - you _actualy_ think the Tories
will be voted back in at the next election?
Neil Francis
Trowbridge, UK
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No, but Labour have a huge majority and that doesn't help as they
can get anything through they want.
The point about taxation is that I did not feel that put out with
the 24% level, and I don't think it was a major issue. It was
just a popularity stunt to lower it to 23%. By so doing the
Government have made a major issue out of fuel tax, which could
have been left as it was if income tax had remained at 24%. But
then the budget would have been boring and Gordon Brown would
not have been such a popular chap. You can't buy friends,
especially with their own money.
Steve.
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