Post by tiddles on Apr 14, 2012 15:38:02 GMT 1
www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/greenock/articles/2012/04/11/427024-mp-in-vat-cut-call/
When the Thatcher regime introduced VAT on electricity and gas, the Labour Party went wild and vowed to remove it if they were elected. Move forward to the Bliar/Brown government and did we see the VAT taken off utility bills? Did we buggery but I didn't notice Mr McKenzie or ANY of his nodding dog pals utter a word about it.
Now we see Mr Mortician gazing into a central heating boiler as though he knows something about it. I'm sure Mr Duddy would like to see VAT reduced to 5% for home improvements, indeed I'm sure he'd like the taxpayer to give him a subsidy as well.
Sorry, Mr Duddy and Undertaker, I'd rather see VAT being taken back to 17.5% at least for everything and removed from utility bills altogether and perhaps then the elderly and low paid will not have to think twice before they buy a bottle of Irn-Bru or a packet of toilet rolls.
When the Thatcher regime introduced VAT on electricity and gas, the Labour Party went wild and vowed to remove it if they were elected. Move forward to the Bliar/Brown government and did we see the VAT taken off utility bills? Did we buggery but I didn't notice Mr McKenzie or ANY of his nodding dog pals utter a word about it.
Now we see Mr Mortician gazing into a central heating boiler as though he knows something about it. I'm sure Mr Duddy would like to see VAT reduced to 5% for home improvements, indeed I'm sure he'd like the taxpayer to give him a subsidy as well.
Sorry, Mr Duddy and Undertaker, I'd rather see VAT being taken back to 17.5% at least for everything and removed from utility bills altogether and perhaps then the elderly and low paid will not have to think twice before they buy a bottle of Irn-Bru or a packet of toilet rolls.
