Monday, December 11, 2006
Merry Winterval From Bandit Brown & The Grabbing Goblins
Or a future PM addresses his subjects.
No doubt you'll all recall the recent budget event (it's strange how we now seem to have two of these a year as opposed to only one, which I'm certain used to be the case traditionally). Anyway in the winterval budget, bandit Brown decided we weren't paying him enough in fuel duty and decided to increase the same by some 1.2p per litre.
I attempt to keep an eye on fuel costs, and despite not noticing a connection at the time, recall that the price of petrol at the pump rose by some one point something per litre on the day before the merry winterval budget.
So we've had two increases at the same time, an extra winterval present for bandit Brown, and another gratuitous one for the grabbing goblins of the petrol companies. This is what they must mean by a true partnership between business and government.
The relationship between business and government is a topic for another time, and whilst I'm in favour of the free market, most business that exist and thrive, have usually compromised such principles and accepted some form of subsidy (be it direct money or a more favourable market position) from the government and are in many ways, part of an informal state apparatus.
As you all know, winterval is the ancient festival of sloth, consumerism and consumption. As good comrades, you know the dangers of bourgeois ideology; spending money on yourselves when there are so many others in need is clearly wrong. At this time of year, people travel considerably, not for work, but for their own individualistic purposes, to buy superfluous gifts, and for social visits; as these dangerous and subversive activities cannot be stamped out by physical coercion, it is only right and proper that the government raises taxes on them. It is even better when private companies join in with a gratuitous price rise as this will ensure a harder hit on those selfish enough to indulge in winterval.
This blog clearly salutes our glorious leader and his efforts to suppress winterval, travel should only be used for legitimate work purposes. Any travel for private use must be eliminated by punitive taxation and big price rises for those selfless petrol companies.
Hurrah for socialism.
Hurrah for bandit Brown.
Hurrah for the petrol companies.
No doubt you'll all recall the recent budget event (it's strange how we now seem to have two of these a year as opposed to only one, which I'm certain used to be the case traditionally). Anyway in the winterval budget, bandit Brown decided we weren't paying him enough in fuel duty and decided to increase the same by some 1.2p per litre.
I attempt to keep an eye on fuel costs, and despite not noticing a connection at the time, recall that the price of petrol at the pump rose by some one point something per litre on the day before the merry winterval budget.
So we've had two increases at the same time, an extra winterval present for bandit Brown, and another gratuitous one for the grabbing goblins of the petrol companies. This is what they must mean by a true partnership between business and government.
The relationship between business and government is a topic for another time, and whilst I'm in favour of the free market, most business that exist and thrive, have usually compromised such principles and accepted some form of subsidy (be it direct money or a more favourable market position) from the government and are in many ways, part of an informal state apparatus.
As you all know, winterval is the ancient festival of sloth, consumerism and consumption. As good comrades, you know the dangers of bourgeois ideology; spending money on yourselves when there are so many others in need is clearly wrong. At this time of year, people travel considerably, not for work, but for their own individualistic purposes, to buy superfluous gifts, and for social visits; as these dangerous and subversive activities cannot be stamped out by physical coercion, it is only right and proper that the government raises taxes on them. It is even better when private companies join in with a gratuitous price rise as this will ensure a harder hit on those selfish enough to indulge in winterval.
This blog clearly salutes our glorious leader and his efforts to suppress winterval, travel should only be used for legitimate work purposes. Any travel for private use must be eliminated by punitive taxation and big price rises for those selfless petrol companies.
Hurrah for socialism.
Hurrah for bandit Brown.
Hurrah for the petrol companies.
Labels: Gordon Brown, tax
