"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."

- Cicero - 55 BC

OBVIOUSLY, NOT A LOT!

LOL

I thought you were quoting GB until I spotted the bit at the bottom

Read on Ceefax that the Govt were planning to print more money to 'normalise things' - nothing learned from recent history there then ;)  what were our Govt doing at school?  surely they studied history at some point? 

Love it,
was it Brutus or Mark Anthony who did something about their leader!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chris

And Scotland!!, trying to put a tax on Chocolate :-D

MMM

I listened to a Radio 4 discussion on numbers just before Christmas, one of the things I gleaned was that if this Govt hadn't changed the criteria for the BMI, we would have no more people considered to be fat or obese than the French or the rest of Europe    So in this country you don't have to weigh as much to be considered Obese

Talk about massaging the figures!!!  

Sadly most people can't see when the Govt are using something as a smoke screen :(  The country is on it's uppers, the banks have lost all our money and our savings aren't worth saving,  but never mind that, lets tax chocolate - because some people eat too much of it!!  as if that would put the real chocolate munchers off!!

> as if that would put the real chocolate munchers off!!

completely agree.. clutching at straws :-(

LOL

In answer to the title Margot - zippo, zilch nadda :(

Tax on Choc................; -0
Smoke screens out again....

kayc

    > as if that would put the real chocolate munchers off!!

completely agree.. clutching at straws :-(

works in denmark, where they have always had an extra tax on cakes, biscuits, and sweets.
and veg etc is cheaper. not many fat people over there.

good idea really

GB Divorced Prudence a long time ago and has turned us into an almost bankrupt country ...those of us old enough to remember previous Labour Governments will not be surprised

This country is on its knees... I'm not sure some folk realise how bad this could get... we could all be living in caves and eating our own chickens to survive soon.

As for taxing chocolate - yep, getting the priorities right again! it would be funny if it weren't so desperate

Now call me cynical, but wasn't there a report this week about the sales of chocolate rising due to the credit crunch?

Apparently people are buying chocolate instead of going out!

Maybe the Govt saw this as well and wanted a piece of this.
:(

re the taxing of chocolate, the Govt have never suggested this, it came from a Scottish doctor whose motion at BMA conference in Scotland was to "call for a tax on chocolate" the motion was defeated anyway.

My misunderstanding sorry, should read things fully and not skim :)

Actually thinking about it most chocolate is already taxed you have to play VAT on it

>Now call me cynical, but wasn't there a report this week about the sales of chocolate rising due to the credit crunch?

>Apparently people are buying chocolate instead of going out!

Maybe that's why they're calling it the credit crunch?  :-D :-D

> Maybe that's why they're calling it the credit crunch?  :-D :-D

would that not be the credit Crunchie :-D

OOOH Yes please! :-D :-D