If you're no' a Gordon General Ramblings 07 May 2008 Another weekend’s full bombardment by the Commentariat Parris (who’s gone mad) urges us to surrender now, to give power back to those born to rule. ‘Bring Back the Toffs’. All the others trundle their own shells in. Read more...   Those Who Shout Loudest General Ramblings 07 May 2008 The City is now using its great lobbying power and getting enormous newspaper coverage, for the threat that companies will all rush to Dublin unless they get an even softer tax treatment.   Read more...   Mitchell Offers Therapy Sessions General Ramblings 06 May 2008 for Misunderstood Ministers and Battered backbenchers,   Read more...   All You Socialists General Ramblings 25 April 2008 We’re all socialists now. Except the Government. We’re all working class now. Except the Government. Read more...   Letters from Grimsby General Ramblings 25 April 2008 Infamy. Infamy. They’ve all got it in for me. Read more...   Letter to Alistair Darling Monetary Policy 25 April 2008 25 April 2008     The Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP Chancellor of the Exchequer HM Treasury 1 Horseguards Road London SW1A 2HQ     Dear Alistair   I`d appreciate an urgent response to some of the questions which have arisen in the ten percent tax saga plus a comment on the processes. Read more...   Amendments for the amendment General Ramblings 24 April 2008 What a week! Every day a new offer from the government. Every day what wasn’t possible yesterday is possible today and changes which cost £7 billion yesterday are possible for peanuts.  Read more...   Socialist taxation? Monetary Policy 21 April 2008 Here’s how we redistribute taxation as a Socialist Government   The proposed abolition of the 10% income tax band <http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/apr/20/tax.tradeunions> hurts the poor and has quite rightly attracted widespread condemnation. The government claims that the restoration of the 10% band would cost around £7 billion and the predictable response <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7357085.stm> is that we can't afford it. Here are twelve ways that the government can finance the restoration of the 10% income tax band. They can also help the worse-off citizens by raising personal allowances <http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/tax_expenditures/table1-6.pdf>, which the Treasury's own figures show would cost around £4.3 billion for each 10% increment. Read more...   Robbin' Hood Monetary Policy 21 April 2008 I’m flooded with protests about the abolition of the 10p tax band. They’re right. We are taking from the poor to give to the richer. The compensation via tax credits isn’t and will be fiddly and will produce no gratitude.   Read more...   1979 revisited General Ramblings 16 April 2008 Jim Callaghan discerned a seismic tremor in 1979 which ushered in the age of Thatcher, Free markets, deregulation and sanctified Ground. Read more...   Power to the People General Ramblings 16 April 2008 Sanctimony they name is Lib Dem. Has been every since Gladstone, who believed that the Ace of Trumps up his sleeve had been put there by God. Read more...   Housing horrors and Beckham mania General Ramblings 04 April 2008 This year’s Mandelson Medal for most Promising Ministerial apprenticeship goes to his successor at Hartlepool, Iain Wright, for his brilliant success in getting the bum bill for housing and regeneration (which will do little for either) through the Commons. Aspiring ministers have to show aptitude at defending the indefensible, conning the Commons into thinking their bill will achieve what its not intended to do, and will be beneficial for the poor children and small animals while, in fact, taking millions away from all of them. All a necessary rite of passage to greater Blairite things like forcing single parents to work in coal mines, invading small counties and closing post offices.   Read more...   Letter to Mervyn King Monetary Policy 31 March 2008 31 March 2008     Mervyn King Esq Governor Bank of England Threadneedle Street London EC2R 8AH     Dear Mervyn   We are concerned that the Bank, by its failure to respond to a deteriorating situation by reducing interest rates and boosting liquidity, is losing touch with reality. It either does not understand the situation or puts a desire to stand “unshook amidst a bursting world” before action as a means of sustaining a confidence few now feel.   Read more...   Mini Blair Unleashed General Ramblings 27 March 2008 Speaking beneath the huge murals of French defeats, Pres Sarko gave us a dose of Blair-con-brio what the Pro-Europeans in the audience lapped up. Most lusting after Mme Sarko who looked bored stiff obviously contemplating a lifetime of this.   Read more...   EuroBlair Blog General Ramblings 26 March 2008 You read it here first. Our campaign to put Tony on top is gathering support. It’s now backed by Mandy, Denis MacShane and a man I met on the bus who didn’t give his name. Read more...   Government Brain Health Warning General Ramblings 26 March 2008 Beware the infectious bleatings of ministers like Jack Straw (constitutional Machiavelli), Ed Balls and Peter Hain (ret’d). They’re too terrified and daft to see the benefits of Proportional representation. So they’re rallying round the soft option of the Alternative Vote. Read more...   Blairite or Labourite: Which one are you? General Ramblings 26 March 2008 What`s the difference between Blairites (Yesterday`s Men) and Labourites (Day before Yesterday`s Men)? A Quiz.   Read more...   House Mag Diary House Magazine Diary 26 March 2008 HOUSE DIARY AUSTIN MITCHELL MP   These are the times that try men`s socialism. Polls disastrous. Morale low. New chums wondering if ritual suicide might be helpful. Blairites in the ascendant with crazed proposals to force the disabled back to work (assuming the Poles leave any jobs) or proclaiming the virtues of wealth, Mandy announcing that Gordon has forgiven him, and Tony sucking up more jobs in his flibbertigibbet progress to the throne of Charlemagne II.    * * * Read more...   Bloody Budget General Ramblings 13 March 2008 I was spitting blood in my speech on the budget. Read more...   Thoughts on a Visit to Downing Street General Ramblings 12 March 2008 As I was going down the stair Read more...

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