Mar 14 2007
A glimpse of the future - the light bulb police and higher Council tax
Gordon Brown has started to show us his vision of Britain under new management.
In place of Blair’s grandiose??agreements which enable him to travel the world many times putting targes in place which are unlikely to be hit, we have micro manager Gordon telling us to change?? our lights bulbs and replace many of the fittings.
In the world under Gordon the homeowner will be beseiged from all sides by government. There is the threat of new higher bands for Council Tax, to charge the pensioner in the two bed flat in central London more as well as the hard?? working executive family in the good house in the shires.
There is the likelihood the valuer will call, to see if your latest home decorations and new conservatory have pushed your house into a higher band, so they can tax your design flair and effort more.
Then the green inspector will call, to see if your bulbs and boiler are compliant,and to check if you are overdoing it on the thermostat.
He may trip over the TV licence inspector, if you dare to live without a TV to watch the BBC.
This government does have such winning ways with the public!
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John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
Maybe we need to hand over a set of house keys to the government just in case they want to pop in when we are out?
So if I understand the plans correctly:
- They’ll monitor everywhere I go, by means of their road-pricing GPS bug,
- Make me carry ID so I can prove who I am,
- Check every transaction I make by accessing my credit card records,
- Arrest me if I cite passages of the bible,
- Insist my kids are taught gay fairy stories in primary school, and call me a hate criminal if I object
- Send questionnaires to my 12 year old asking if she has penetrative sex when she gets drunk,
Whilst all the time taxing me to death, sending my sons to die in pointless wars they won’t participate in themselves and regulating and restricting me at will, and saying “Well, if you’ve nothing to hide, you’ve nothing to fear” even though they manage to get the attorney general to slap injunctions on anything they don’t like the look of which incriminates them.
A very unappealing prospect but the way Cameron is talking can we really expect any salvation from the Conservatives?
All of your points are frighteningly true - as are the ones raised by Stuart Fairney.
Can you please give a guarantee that when we get in at the next election we will dismantle this Orwellian structure piece by piece and return to something resembling rationality and common sense?
We need a bonfire of regulations - not rhetoric that we fail to follow up. Where are the Shadow Cabinet statements and commitments to end this sort of thing? If they are being made then they are not being made vocally enough to reach the politically active - let alone to the voter-in-the-street.