As brownian Labour's cack-handed incompetence at economics and finance has cost us universal, flat-rate payments in for families it is only fair that universal flat-rate payments out for families should be abolished also.
First up must be the BBC licence fee. The abolition of a flat-rate charge on any family with a television would go to compensating in some small fashion the loss of universal benefits. Agreed the BBC enjoys universal dislike and distrust, but now that we have been driven from our universalist mind-sets, its charges are unacceptable.
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"its charges are unacceptable. "
Oh yes. Especially when you have to watch the glee they display with the latest nulab (sorry, oldlab) 'shudder' cabinet.
For God's sake, what a bunch of losers poncing about as new faces! And they'd all been tied up with the debacle of causing the current situation, where now, real businesses have to sort themselves out. And I don't mean the banks either.
Opposition via expenses is the norm for Red Ed - hence mr and mrs balls, who are squeaking, noisy and avoidable little lightweights.
The one I can't understand, Scrobs, is the shadow solicitor-general. Scotland, or whatever she is really called. She was a public disgrace before the election, why on earth has the Labour party continued to disgrace itself with her now?
The others are much of a lowish muchness, but she was convicted and fined for breaking the laws she herself piloted through Parliament. Why does Labour insist on a shadow solicitor-general with a criminal record? And, by many accounts, a poor mind.
Kill the licence fee with technology. Ditch the TV, get a PC home entertainment system, watch evrything on iplayer/on demand sites. No licence required. If enough people did this the Beeb would die.
Actually, we don't know whether the bbc's charges are unreasonable, because they've never been tested in the market.
Possibly if people had the choice, some of them would be quite happy to pay whatever it is now.
What's unacceptable is that it is a hypothecated tax - the only one in existence as far as I know.
@Anon 0755: that is why the bbc is investigating the idea of a PC tax.
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