Chris and Fee have more faith in GPs than perhaps the GPs do themsel...
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LATEST: Think you’re paying less tax now? The withdrawal of Working and Child Tax Credits leaves low earners paying a 73% marginal tax rate, and medium earners paying even more
...And this government says it cuts taxes for poor working households!
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RIP-OFF NEWS ROUND-UP, OUR PICK OF THE LAST WEEK'S MEDIA
Drug firm Novartis tried to 'scupper' trials of a cheaper version of eye medicine
Has Austerity caused the UK’s first decline in life expectancy in 20 years?
Kellogg's effectively paid no corporation tax in the UK in 2013, +more stories...
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YOU'RE FIRED?! We are already nearly the most easily fired people in the developed world
Only the US and Canada make it easier, says the OECD’s Worker Protection Index
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EYE OPENER: Housing Equity Withdrawal took off in 1979. Since then almost all UK growth has suspiciously equalled the amount we took out. Looks like it’s pensions next
Osborne’s new rules allow you to spend your entire pension pot now. Same mistake, different pot
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DID YOU KNOW? MPs are getting a 10% pay hike in May, to £74k
...and in 2010, 137 MPs put family members on parliament's payroll. Now it's soared to 167
GOOD DEBT
PENSION CRAZY
BANKSTER PAY
MPs' 2nd JOBS
TAX IS THEFT?!
FAILING SCHOOLS
AFFORDABLE NHS
1m WORK IN POVERTY
JAIL THE ACCOUNTANTS
RICKETS IS BACK
UN-NATIONALISED RAIL
LOW WAGE BRITAIN
BANK OF MUM & DAD
UK: A PRISONER OF CUTS
TAXING LIES
WATER CANNON BORIS
UNIVERSAL C.. OCKUP
FULL TIME JOBS? WHERE!
Sunday, 30 January 2011
Rip-offs come in all shapes and sizes:Crippling inescapable pilfering that ruin you and offer no hope of recovery. Pensions and investments, with their high charges and low returns, fall into this category, leaving millions spending their final years in reduced and poverty stricken circumstances. Discretionary scams, such as purchases of goods and holidays. A few hundred, or thousand, pounds lost on a non-recurring and avoidable ‘low cost’ flight or fridge or time-share holiday home.Periodic kicks in the...
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Sunday, 23 January 2011
There is a widely held falsehood that the rich subsidise the poor. The poor are poor because they don’t have enough money, and therefore it is supposed that the rich give them handouts via their taxes. There are various fig-leaves to justify this disparity in cashflow. A few truly talented executives justify bumper payrounds for the mediocre herd. And a few truly awful pieces of trash justify the pitiless treatment of all the other poor. But the reasons for who gets what is not my current purpose. My purpose is the question of inequality,...
Sunday, 16 January 2011
The City operates like the feudal barons of the middle ages, who oppressively taxed their peasants but once a year would give away a roasted ox at the village fete. The dimmer citizens would be greatly appreciative of this annual generosity, forgetting that it was paid for by the oppressive taxes imposed by the generous barons. In the twenty odd years that bankers started robbing their own banks by carting out cash in bonus-bags, politicians - in a state of distracted incomprehension - have claimed that the banks should be allowed to make profit because they contribute so much tax. But lets look at the figures here.Whole Financial Sector...
Monday, 10 January 2011
Sunday, 9 January 2011
The ‘tussle for talent’ is the favourite justification given by companies, bureaucracies, and parliaments for generous perks, privileges, and pay. To say the “talent” takes the credit is obvious – that is how they are identified as “talent”. However, whether they deserve all the credit they take is a matter of opinion. The people who allocate the ‘credit’, and thereby define who the ‘talent’ is, are the bosses of organisations. A report released in October 2010 by Income Data Services demonstrates that the bosses are sure of one thing – they themselves...
Saturday, 1 January 2011
“And, being fed by us, you used us soAs that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird,Useth the sparrow--did oppress our nest”William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part IMoney is the key to releasing all the skills and assets in a nation. Which is why those who manage the flow of money, the bankers and financial traders, have been able to enrich themselves in a way no other non-criminal profession has. Possession, after all, is nine tenths of the law. And once you’ve put your money into a bank or an investment, it is de facto in the possession of the banker.You can do a lot of things with money. In fact, that is the entire point of money – you...
“And, being fed by us, you used us soAs that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird,Useth the sparrow--did oppress our nest”William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part IMoney is the key to releasing all the skills and assets in a nation. Which is why those who manage the flow of money, the bankers and financial traders, have been able to enrich themselves in a way no other non-criminal profession has. Possession, after all, is nine tenths of the law. And once you’ve put your money into a bank or an investment, it is de facto in the possession of the banker.You can do a lot of things with money. In fact, that is the entire point of money – you...
