I fully realise it. Gordon Brown spent his whole chancellorship raising the
total tax take from 32% of GDP to 45% and gave the money to local councils
to spend on non-jobs (like an 'awareness' officer, as if we have a choice
who we pay our council taxes to). Some years ago we were in Italy and an
Italian told us that the Germans invent the EU laws, the British obey them,
the French ignore them and the Italians have never even heard of them. But
it's worse than that, Britain leads the world in 'gold-plating', and I'm not
talking about jewellery. This is taking laws from the EU or central
government and seeing how much more restrictive and punitive they can make
them. In the last month there has been a hoo-ha about two police officers
who were friends and arranged their shifts so that they could look after
each others children when the other was working. Even though no money
changed hands their local council decreed that it was a commercial
arrangement and both would have to be assessed by the Criminal Records
Bureau and local council for their suitability for childcare. Fortunately
in that case the central government department concerned for the national
policy told them not to be so stupid. The same applies to parents with
children in social or sports groups who might ferry children from other
families to and from venues, but in that case the requirement for the
assessment stands.
PaulH.
----- Original Message -----
> What you have to realise that that those people slapping tickets on people
> employs not only the slapper-oners but their supervisors, clerics,
> paymasters, the people who "train" them and Uncle Tom Cobbley and all.
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