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I'm a councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth; this blog mainly covers that, sometimes general politics and policy and occasionally anything else that takes my fancy.
Tag Archives: VAT
Darling’s last pre-Budget report
The earliest post on this blog is from 24 November 2008 on the benefits of low taxation (actually the blog wasn’t public until nearly a month later, on 17 December, but that was the oldest surviving test post). In it I suggested that the temporary VAT cut probably wasn’t that good a measure, and that
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Full council meeting – some people do think Gordon Brown saved us all
Last night saw Wandsworth’s last full council meeting of the year. My main part was speaking in a debate on the results of the business survey carried out earlier this year. It showed that business confidence was declining (even though it was carried out before the news started to turn really bleak) but Wandsworth was
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Posted in Politics, Regeneration, Wandsworth
Also tagged Council, delusion, Economy, EDO, Gordon Brown, recession
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The benefits of low taxation
Today Alistair Darling will announce that Labour have finally seen the benefits of low taxation. Or has he? The BBC is currently reporting an expected temporary reduction in VAT to 15%, along with the introduction of a new higher rate tax band and the postponement of various other changes. In other words, we’re increasing taxes, not
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Posted in Politics
Also tagged Conservative, council tax, Darling, Gordon Brown, government, Labour, Politics, tax
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