With the round of tax increases announced in the last budget, HM Government reached the top of the Laffer Curve i.e. the Chancellor has now looted as much money as he viably can from the British taxpayer. If he wants more, he will have to get himself a drill and start going after their gold fillings.
According to a depressingly large number of people, we in Blighty should all now be happier, healthier, better educated, more cultivated and, above all, kinder and more caring.
But we’re not. Certainly those who work in the public sector are not because I detect that the first shot in a ‘War of the Spoils’ has been fired by Local Government unions who have announced a series of nationwide strikes to commence later this month.
“If the stoppage goes ahead on 17 July it will be the first national council workers’ strike since the 1979 Winter of Discontent.
If this is the start of a massive, bitter and chaotic bun-fight for booty in the public sector, then I give all our readers fair warning that they can expect lots of nauseatingly smug we-told-you-so type postings (mostly from me).
