The path to a career in journalism is paved with the cow pats of innumeracy. I have never met a hack who didn’t go a lighter shade of pale green when presented with the need to do sums. Expenses excepted, obviously.
At school I would faint when ever I hear the words: “Now class, if Janet has 13 lemons and Jack is a Khazakstani yak farmer ...�
However I am proud to say this has stood me in good stead to explain the budget.
If Gord-con has 13 sweets and you have 13 sweets and he gives you his sweets and you give him yours you are no better off than before.
That is unless you have driven to school in a large portions 4x4 or a Bentley Fat Wallet. In which case as you were concentrating on your sums, the Last King of Scotland kicked you in the continentals and ran off with half your sherbet lemons.
This, I imagine, he has been told to do by the science teacher in order to make the sky better.
The higher rate of VED is not a green tax. It’s a vote for Gordon tax. A slimy attempt to pander to the masses who have been taught to hate 4x4s. The victims of poor sciece and The Guardian.
It will not take a single luxury car off the road. Because if you can afford to pay for a Range Rover HSE you can afford another fiver a week in tax. Which actually nicely covers the sort of money you will have saved in income tax. You don’t have to be mad to work here but...
I own a Toyota Hi Lux. I won’t pay any more. Why? Because it’s pre-March 2001 and so like a huge number of big 4x4s used by people like me for recreation it is not subject to tax banding. So people on bicycles wearing banana hats can smirk as much as they want but I haven’t been hurt.
As for you Master Brown, take 500 lines: You can fool some of the people some of the time...
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