Just an example, many English Premier League clubs are about to lose out in attracting the best players in the world. Why? A 30% drop in the value of sterling and a whopping great increase in UK taxes.

I have to say I am very much in favour of a standard rate tax of around 28% for everyone no how much you earn. At the same time ALL tax shelters and allowances would be scrapped. There would be no loopholes no avoidance schemes everyone would pay 28% of their earnings.

Business taxation would also be 28% (or 33% if NI is scrapped) for every business no matter the size of the business.

A generous personal allowance (£7,500p.a.) will ensure that the lowest paid in our society are given every assistance to avoid the poverty trap.

National Insurance should be scrapped, as it really is just additional bureaucracy to collect income tax. This may result in a small percentage rise in the standard tax rate proposed, but nothing like the 20% government currently takes. More like 5% taking the standard rate to 33% but with no NI.

It is a complete nonsense that the taxman would take more out of your paypacket that you get yourself.

It is highly likely that the government would collect more tax in this manner than by increasing taxes.

As for pensions and investment, the average national pay is about £23,000 p.a. Most people cannot invest more than 20% of this money; therefore the maximum annual tax free pension contribution would be limited to £4,600 p.a.

Death duty should be scrapped; this wealth has already been taxed.

Fuel duty should be halved immediately.

The above measure would eliminate the need to give so many government handouts to industry and all businesses would benefit.

What Gordon Brown did not do was start a program to make the UK self sufficient in energy (petrol, diesel, gas and electricity) and ensure that the UK has the best communications infrastructure in the world (That means every location in the UK had broadband internet access at a minimum of 100Mb/s.

Where would the spending cuts come? Mostly defence procurement. There is no way that the UK can afford costly new Nuclear weapons from the USA at this moment. However, the taxation cuts would eliminate the need for many industrial grants.

The business environment would be invigorated.

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John Berkow? Labour are dead keen to get up Cameron’s nose because they think he got rid of “one of their own”. How petty and bloody stupid! Michael Martin was a useless Speaker and the way he blocked expenses reform was a disgrace. He also let David Cameron be shouted down for five minutes without intervening, as a last petty act of revenge. Maybe Guy Fawkes had the right idea.

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When discusing tax. cuts v. investment, this is how Boris describes the way politicians switch back and forth in the argument, as expediency dictates. Ha ha, the things these politicians do in the cause of self advancement!

We may laugh, but there is a hugely important point being made in this article; it is the 23.6 million private sector employees and good old British business who are the wealth creators, but when matters are hashed out in the Commons, who remembers this?

The public money that Gordon is so eager to spend was created by the entrepreneurs. The PM may give lip service to his support of these people, but how far does that actually go? Gordon reserves the majority of his time pressing his case as our economic saviour. Presenting themselves in the best light seems to be the number one priority of everyone in Parliament.

“…remember that wealth was ultimately created by private enterprise and if they don’t help the wealth creators, they won’t have any money to spend.”

Well said Boris and Mrs. Thatcher would be proud of you.

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Let me refer you to the remarks made on The Late Debate last night with Alastair Steward interviewing Boris Johnson. I have summarised this interview in the forum.

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I’m hardly the first person to point this out, but it’s impossible to see what the current mayor believes in, other than keeping everybody happy in a rather spineless way. These are wasted years for London, they will not see bold moves like those 2 above.

The current is big on flowery words, small on a unifying vision.

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Which is the flaw in the argument that abolition of the Whips would render Government ‘ineffectual’. If Government couldn’t take action without the approval of Parliament (instead of demanding that approval through the Whips), it would be much harder for them to do stupid things, and still fairly easy for them to do sensible things.

Abolish the Whips – bring back Democracy!

Oh, and well said Boris

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Boris rightly points out that as well as being a ruinous burden for small businesses, the cost of implementing this ludicrous scheme will be phenomenal and just another drain on the tax payer.

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