Well it was when these comedians were on stage.Cast your mind back, if you will, almost twenty years.
Margaret Thatcher is about to walk out of Number 10 and hand the keys to the Grey Man of politics on the right, who up to now is best known for saying of his fifteen per cent mortgage rates "if it isn't hurting, it isn't working".
And a much younger and slimmer John of Gwent is about to find his employer for the past eight years won't be his employer much longer. An awfully nice yankee chappie by the name of Rumsfeld demanded that in order to "solve the bearded nuisance in iran" problem they should arm the bloke next door with a lit of d's in his name to the teeth. Having done so, the company finds Uncle Sam declares the chap in question a bad boy, so he doesn't pay the bill.
Thus started my career as an independent IT freelancer. And my first invoices carried a 15% VAT demand. But not for long. For it would come to pass that when faced with the considerable outrage over the Poll Tax, the solution oput forward would be a £140 a head refund, to be paid for by a 2.5% increase in VAT.
Well taxes have a habit of sticking round. Income tax was a vehicle designed to fund the Napoleonic War and I think that's been over for a while but still I see "actors" making money each year telling me to get my return in. And similarly VAT stuck at 17.5% for fifteen years after the Poll Tax bit the dust.
But listen carefully this afternoon, folks. Because a 2.5% INCREASE in VAT was needed to fund a £140 cashback on the Poll Tax. So what is going to go up, and by how much, to cover the VAT handout ?
And when Diddy David stands up and rants, will someone please remind him who it was that put it up all those years ago, and why, and what was said at the time.
unable to recover the costs of all the weaponry it sold to a chap by the name of Saddam, who at that time was infintely preferable to the bearded bad guy next door who came out of exile i
Margaret Thatcher is about to walk out of Number 10 and hand the keys to the Grey Man of politics on the right, who up to now is best known for saying of his fifteen per cent mortgage rates "if it isn't hurting, it isn't working".
And a much younger and slimmer John of Gwent is about to find his employer for the past eight years won't be his employer much longer. An awfully nice yankee chappie by the name of Rumsfeld demanded that in order to "solve the bearded nuisance in iran" problem they should arm the bloke next door with a lit of d's in his name to the teeth. Having done so, the company finds Uncle Sam declares the chap in question a bad boy, so he doesn't pay the bill.
Thus started my career as an independent IT freelancer. And my first invoices carried a 15% VAT demand. But not for long. For it would come to pass that when faced with the considerable outrage over the Poll Tax, the solution oput forward would be a £140 a head refund, to be paid for by a 2.5% increase in VAT.
Well taxes have a habit of sticking round. Income tax was a vehicle designed to fund the Napoleonic War and I think that's been over for a while but still I see "actors" making money each year telling me to get my return in. And similarly VAT stuck at 17.5% for fifteen years after the Poll Tax bit the dust.
But listen carefully this afternoon, folks. Because a 2.5% INCREASE in VAT was needed to fund a £140 cashback on the Poll Tax. So what is going to go up, and by how much, to cover the VAT handout ?
And when Diddy David stands up and rants, will someone please remind him who it was that put it up all those years ago, and why, and what was said at the time.
unable to recover the costs of all the weaponry it sold to a chap by the name of Saddam, who at that time was infintely preferable to the bearded bad guy next door who came out of exile i
