to think that you need to stop what you're doing right now and read this article. And I mean need.

[granted]

I posted this on the Politics section but it deserves a much wider audience:

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/07/tax-city-heist-of-century?commentpage=last#end-of-comments

Quite possibly the best newspaper article I've ever read.

So, if I'm correct on this, David Cameron is planning to to shift taxes under the tax act so that his rich and ultra-rich friends benefit and middle/working classes are squeezed til the pips squeak.

I'm hopeless at large scale finances and politics BTW.

That's a pretty good article. George Monbiot is fantastic, he came to my bookshop a couple of years ago and his talk was amazing.

There isn't enough space on the whole Internet for me to articulate the rage I feel about the way we have been and are being fucked over by this government and its croneyism (sic?). Or the last government, come to think of it.

Correct, ChilledChick.

"Tories look after the rich and screw everyone else."

Quelle Surprise...

I wonder how many terms they'd need before they felt safe enough to help the poor by providing large institutions for them to live in, where they will be given manual labour, beaten daily and told that they are poor because they lack moral virtue of industriousness...

Its quite scary really

Each day brings some new outrage. Condems are morally bankrupt. It beggars belief that they can get away with this shit.

Thanks, but I almost wish I hadn't read it. I'd leave this country now if I wasn't too poor to go anywhere :(

Makes an even bigger joke out of today's "surprise" tiny levy on the banks, doesn't it?
Surprise my arse. My bank sent out a letter in December, warning of harsher penalty fees from the beginning of March. That'll more than cover the little bit of extra tax.

My bank has started charging me to have an account with them.

Fuckers.

Can't close it and move elsewhere until I clear the over draft unfortunately.

This is just terrible, so glad you brought it into AIBU you could expect it of the Tories but why are the Liberals rolling over as well - oh yes Clegg must be sucking up to get a seat at the table

cos gordon did such a fantastic job we are all in the land of milk and honey now

Thanks for posting - brilliant article.

Unfortunately, Marmy, whether Gordon Brown did a crap job or not (or indeed Tony Blair) doesn't actually make any difference to whether this sort of tax policy is going to be popular. Many people don't like what Labour did but that doesn't mean they agree with everything (or anything) the Tories are doing either.

Holds head in hands If I had the money I leave this country in a flash, oh the fucking irony! I am dreading what he's going to do to us over the next 4 years. May as well just bend over now. [fuckinghateCameronsmiley]

Ooops that wasn't supposed to be in bold.

There's now only one option. That's voting Green. It will have to become a serious contender.

Might make a good name change?

Voting Green is good. I really don't want another revolution. Revolutions, on the whole, aren't very nice.

We are leaving, getting our arses in gear now. Roll on Aug.

How often do you think they let Nick Clegg out of the gimp cage?

Oh god it's George bloody Monbiot, please do not take this shite seriously.

Have the rats started appearing yet? Do I need to jump ship?

Thanks for the link.

Really fucking scary. I've tried to play down my DH's rants about the Tories for months (because of wishful thinking) and this makes me want to cry.

Thanks for posting.

happiestblonde

Some of George Monbiot's writing is rhetoric which if you don't agree with it I can understand you labeling it as shite. However, you can't really argue with the numbers, or if you can, say that instead of an ad hominem dismissal of the man who wrote them.

Why not, happiestblonde?