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Government ministers have destroyed their own moral authority. You can't shove gay weddings and bloody pointless windmills down the public's retching throat and then lecture them about morality; you can't waste their wealth and that of their children and grandchildren on saving your chums in the banks and then lecture them on fiscal responsibility, you can't give the BBC a monopoly of £4bn a year in TV Tax and then condone their arrangements for their richest fat-cats to not pay tax but condemn the poor widow for the tenner paid to her window cleaner, and you can't sell the nation's sovereignty to a faceless supernational power for a mess of pottage and expect people to heed your words. While Blair, Hoon, Irvine and Straw are allowed to walk free in England, while Brown and Balls continue to profit by their malfeasance and while the entire political class is more remote, more separated from the people than ever before you have no firm ground on which to stand and deliver moral pronouncements. Ministers are mired in the ordure of corruption, peculation, patronage and placement, besmirched by deception and mendacity and fouled with the filth of their mutual self-protection at our expense. They have all the moral authority of sewer-rats.
Not often I use the "c" word, but I did when I heard what Gauke said yesterday. People who live in glass houese ehAs you said, excellent and accurate rant
BUILDERS’ cash-in-hand earnings only remain outside the tax system until they arrive at a place that sells beer, it has been claimed.After Exchequer Secretary David Gauke called small cash payments ‘morally repugnant’, tradesmen were swift to remind the minister that pints are taxed pretty fucking heavily.Plasterer Tom Logan said: “Whatever cash I might earn is going back into the system within half an hour, even less if we pass a boozer on the way home.“I understand the tax on a pint of beer is something like 38%. Also crisps, pub pool tables and Status Quo songs on the jukebox are tax magnets, I’d imagine.”Beer raises over £21 billion in taxes annually, most of it from men in overalls who are ‘winding down’ after a hard day’s tea-drinking.Builder Stephen Malley said: “It’s not like we’re spending this money on cocktails in St Lucia like some non-domicile corporate fat cats.“I’d like to think our beer duty is going back into the NHS, and will one day help to replace my swollen liver.“And as far as being ‘morally repugnant’ goes, I even urinate in customers’ sinks when they are out, just to save on the water usage associated with flushing toilets.”
Tradesmen's earnings 'only untaxed until they get to the pub'Quote from: The Daily MashBUILDERS’ cash-in-hand earnings only remain outside the tax system until they arrive at a place that sells beer, it has been claimed.After Exchequer Secretary David Gauke called small cash payments ‘morally repugnant’, tradesmen were swift to remind the minister that pints are taxed pretty fucking heavily.Plasterer Tom Logan said: “Whatever cash I might earn is going back into the system within half an hour, even less if we pass a boozer on the way home.“I understand the tax on a pint of beer is something like 38%. Also crisps, pub pool tables and Status Quo songs on the jukebox are tax magnets, I’d imagine.”Beer raises over £21 billion in taxes annually, most of it from men in overalls who are ‘winding down’ after a hard day’s tea-drinking.Builder Stephen Malley said: “It’s not like we’re spending this money on cocktails in St Lucia like some non-domicile corporate fat cats.“I’d like to think our beer duty is going back into the NHS, and will one day help to replace my swollen liver.“And as far as being ‘morally repugnant’ goes, I even urinate in customers’ sinks when they are out, just to save on the water usage associated with flushing toilets.”
