Post Tagged with: "Incompetence"

Here’s what’s next

Serves me right for wondering. Via Lloyds Action Now: Lloyds Action Now (LAN) is an association set up by shareholders for shareholders to recover our investment losses as a result of the disastrous merger of Lloyds TSB Bank with HBOS. We now know Lloyds directors and advisors, the Government, the […]

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Red Ed – already trying to rewrite history

N.B. Tim Hewish is my Parliamentary Researcher. I asked him to comment on Ed Miliband’s conference speech. I have just listened to Ed Miliband’s first official speech as leader of the Labour Party. I am struck by the attempted hoodwink he is trying to pull. He talks about the optimism of […]

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Global Cooling and the New World Order – Telegraph Blogs

My amazement at the arrogant incompetence of those who wish to manage others’ lives already scarcely knows any bounds but now we shall have to watch which way the environmental research money flows: Bilderberg. Whether you believe it’s part of a sinister conspiracy which will lead inexorably to one world […]

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It pleases HMRC to jest

Via CentreRight: The Revenue’s power grab: what’s yours is mine first. Just as taxpayers finally lose confidence in the ability of the Revenue to calculate PAYE correctly, HMRC offers to take the matter out of our hands and present us with a fait accompli. The power grab implicit in the latest […]

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The case for tax simplification

As the tax fiasco continues, we might ask what is to be done to prevent this in future. I am not surprised amounts of tax were miscalculated. I personally worked on a project to encode a corporate tax return for electronic submission when we found the rules were incompatible. It […]

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Labour’s legacy

A new video from the Party: Sayeeda Warsi, Co-Chairman of Conservative Party, has written: Labour’s incompetent handling of our economy will hit all of our pockets. The cuts to come are Labour’s cuts. So, it’s only fair that the people responsible should share some of the pain. That’s why today I […]

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Equitable Life update

At 13:00 today, I attended a busy Westminster Hall debate on Equitable Life secured by Nicola Blackwood MP, to which the minister, Mark Hoban MP, responded. Nicola covered the situation incisively. Many of us made an exception to sign the Equitable Life pledge during the campaign and we do expect […]

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