Chris and his wife lament the effect today's economic cuts will have on tomorrow's hopef...
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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!
Monday, 28 March 2011
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Just because you aren’t rich doesn’t mean you aren’t rich-pickings. Just as in nature, so it is in the marketplace. The biggest of the beasts feed on the smallest morsels. The largest elephants munch on the delicate little leaves of trees, the biggest whales suck up microscopic plankton. One of the great secrets of Britain is though the rich have almost all the wealth, it is ordinary Britons from the moderately well off to the poor who have most of the cashflow. From the banks, insurance companies, and energy companies, with boards adorned by chivalrous...
Friday, 25 March 2011
Sunday, 20 March 2011
Regulatory Fines – the most lucrative investment a bank (or any financial services company) can make
London, New York, and Chicago are the World’s main financial centres. There was a time, only a decade or two ago, when this was principally because of the need to communicate. The Lloyds Insurance Market’s lifeblood was the stream of insurance brokers walking along Lime Street to sit, in offices and restaurants, with the underwriters negotiating and administering insurance policies. Exchanges from stocks and shares to futures and options involved traders massed together in large open halls shouting deals at one another. The reason for these...
Saturday, 19 March 2011
Sunday, 13 March 2011
The rotten secret hidden inside “The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations”:Jesus’ reference (Mathew 23:27) to certain individuals as “whited sepulchres” compared them to white painted tombs – pristine on the outside and full of rotting decay inside. Among the whitest of legislative sepulchres is “The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008”. The foulest corpse in this graveyard of ‘fair practice’ is the reference to “the average consumer”. The legislation states that a practice is only “unfair” if it brings...
Sunday, 6 March 2011
"Why are you so negative about everything in your blog?" said a little voice. "Say something nice before springtime". So I set myself the task of finding a benevolent salesman. The one I came across, the one that always works in the interests of the public, is the Estate Agent.For those of us who own our homes, the value of our house probably forms the bulk of our personal wealth. Apart from living in it, we use it to borrow money cheaply by re-mortgaging, and we hope it will make a big contribution to funding our old age should we downsize to...
