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Rachel Reeves tax grab for woke training & mobiles for migrants makes my teeth itch… here's what Govt SHOULD be doing
AS I'm sure you know, you are taxed on the money you earn.
And you must pay more taxes every time you buy anything or go anywhere or fill your car up with fuel or buy a pint or get your hair cut or go on an aeroplane.
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And if by some miracle you manage to die with a few savings in the bank, they even tax your kids on those.
It's your money. You earned it. You paid tax on it. And then they tax it again. It makes my teeth itch.
However, for many years, you have been able to pass money on to your children, tax free, providing you live for seven years after the gift is made.
But now we are hearing they're even going to tax you on that. Yup. You want to help your kids get on the property ladder.
Well you can't because that infernal woman, Rachel Reeves, has decided that it'd be better if you gave your money to her instead.
I seriously doubt that. Let me give you an example of the problem.
Near to where I live, the local council — which gets a quarter of its cash from the Government — decided to spend £51million on a new park and ride facility next to the busy A40.
It was completed last year and it's very snazzy with 850 spaces, charging points for electrical cars, and attractive spaces where commuters can shelter from the rain.
Lovely. Apart from one small thing: It's not connected to the road network.
Seriously, there's no way anyone can access it, so it's sitting there now, a gigantic blot on the landscape and it cannot be used for parking or riding because neither a bus, nor a car can get into it.
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So they have taken 51million of your pounds. And wasted them.
And they are doing that sort of thing, every day, across the whole country.
And now Rachel Reeves is saying she needs your money more than your children do so that she can waste it on other stupid stuff like diversity training, and pronoun days and treats for illegal immigrants, all of the net zero nonsense.
I don't think Reeves is an unpleasant person. But I do think that she and Starmer and Rayner and Lammy are a bit thick. Lammy especially.
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He can't even go fishing without getting into trouble.
That's why they can't get it into their heads that taking our hard-earned money and wasting it is seriously annoying.
And it's even more annoying when they want yet more money so they can waste that too.
It's really not that difficult to get your head round what needs to be done.
Don't raise taxes. Just spend less.
A TURN OFF TO DRIVING
ONE of my oldest friends lost his driving licence recently, having been caught speeding four times in the last three years.
He sounds reckless, until I tell you that the speeds involved were 25, 26, 31 and 35.
And this ridiculous attitude to people breaking idiotic 20mph limits is just the tip of the anti-car iceberg.
It's now virtually impossible to get a driving test, and if by some miracle you do eventually get a licence, you won't want to buy a car because it bongs at you if you drive too quickly or stray out of lane or take your eyes off the road.
I drove a Toyota recently which had a bonging paddy fit and flashed up a message saying, 'Sit up straight'. What's next? 'Clean your teeth'?
So cars are annoying, you can't drive them at more than walking speed and now comes news that the drink-drive limit is being lowered to a point where you can't pop to the shops in your motor if you've had so much as a sherry trifle.
Plus, unless you can see the bracelet Neil Armstrong left on the moon, your eyes aren't good enough, so you'll have to use the bus instead.
Naturally, we are told this is all to save the NHS from the cost of patching up the victims of car accidents.
But that's rubbish. It's the drive for net zero.
They are making driving so difficult, no one will want to do it.
Welcome to stadium of hate, Sophie
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I WAS astonished to hear this week that after posting pictures of herself at an Oasis gig, the Game Of Thrones actress Sophie Turner was slammed by a follower who said she must have forgotten she's a mother.
Really? So people with children aren't allowed to go out ever?
Honestly, I'm beginning to realise that the world was a much nicer place when strangers weren't able to talk to each other.
Social media is like a gigantic football stadium . . . where the rival fans can sit where they like. There's going to be trouble. And there is.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO tells us that although he's 50, he feels 32.
Yeah, but watch out, mate. I was 19 my whole life.
Until I got to 65, when all of a sudden, I became 109.
NO PET FOOD
A ZOO in Denmark has found itself in a spot of bother after asking local people to donate their pet guinea pigs and rabbits.
So they can be fed to the big cats . . .
We even read this week of a little girl who donated her poorly pony. Which was turned by the zoo keepers into a lion's lunch.
I should explain at this point that the animals are not being eaten alive.
They are 'gently' killed before being turned into food. But I can see why everyone's getting their knickers in a twist.
Because like you, I can't understand why you'd look at your little hamster whizzing round in his wheel and think, 'You know what. I'd like to feed that to a leopard.'
You may say this is hypocrisy as I now spend my days farming.
But I have a simple rule on the matter. I never eat anything that had a name.
DEAD END ON NAME
THE boy wonder Kaleb Cooper, who manages my farm, received word this week that his wife was in labour.
'Right,', he said. 'I'll be there when I've finished harvesting this field.'
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How farmerish is that?!?!
Happily, he finished in time to welcome what for him is baby number three, and then our thoughts turned to a name.
One of our mates suggested it should be named after the field he was harvesting when the call came through.
Nice idea, except for one small detail.
The field was called 'Deadman'.
Despite the interruption, we did get the harvest finished.
And thanks to the drought we've had this year, it was dismal.
Seriously, you could fit all the grain we ended up with in a Hoover bag.
And this, after the appalling wet weather of last year, which resulted in the country's second- worst harvest on record.
A lot of farmers are going to be in a proper financial mess as a result.
But at least we have a government which has their back.
No, wait . . .
