One of our more responsible tabloid newspapers, the Daily Express, has launched a campaign against inheritance tax----Death tax. Mr. Brown’s manipulation of the tax’s threshold means that 4 out of 10 households now fall into the inheritance tax trap. Middle England is being fleeced by this unjust and totally immoral tax whilst the Treasury (Gordon Brown) gleefully rakes in £4 billion a year by exploiting the misery of bereaved families. The Daily Express is calling on its many readers to add their names to a petition on 10 Downing Street’s official web-site in the forlorn hope that Princess Tony and Prudence Brown will actually listen to their pleas for justice on this contentious issue. Some hope! As an example of how seriously our leaders take petitions on their official web-site we only have to look at their response to 600,000 (could be more by now) signatures on the petition against plans for road pricing. Downing Street actually invited people to post their views. Despite being the biggest response ever, the roads minister Stephen Ladyman said it was ‘nonsense’ and he wouldn’t be taking it seriously. How’s that for arrogance from one of our overpaid servants?
It now appears the public are to be asked which laws they would like changed. Suggestions can be made on a new web-site set up by the Law Commission. Sir Terrence Etherton, the High Court Judge who chairs the organisation which advises the Government on legislation said “We are trying to improve people’s lives by making laws more up to date and fair”. That is what he said, but don’t get excited, because there isn’t the slightest chance he actually means what he said. There is not the slightest chance that any changes in our laws put forward by the paying public will be acted upon. Yet one more gimmick in the name of ‘consultation’. Sir Terence did admit that new legislation will only be brought forward if it finds favour with the Lord Chancellor and other ministers! So we can disregard that latest ‘gimmick’, because any idea that mere taxpayers could have a say in framing laws is anathema to those in power.
If there was any chance of the Government’s paymasters (taxpayers) actually imposing laws that suited them, life in Britain might make a lot more sense than it does under the rule of our present bunch of thieves and liars. Since Princess Tony swept to power well over 3000 new laws have been passed, of which we have little knowledge, and few of which have any value. How different it might have been if taxpayers had been asked for their ideas on law-making and seen their ideas implemented. Just for a frivolous exercise let’s consider what would be if we paymasters had a real say in the legislative process.
Left to the popular vote the death penalty would be introduced tomorrow. Foreign criminals and illegal immigrants would be deported immediately with no chance of appeal. Did anybody read anywhere in the New Labour manifesto anything about an open-door policy on immigration?
We would be allowed to use deadly force against intruders in our own homes and the minimum sentence for burglary would be five years.
Law abiding taxpayers would not have introduced 24hr drinking laws or allowed foreign gangsters to operate super-casinos in our big cities.
The Human Rights act would never have made it on to the statute books, thus denying Cherie Blair and her buddies the opportunity of making fortunes and the Treaty of Rome would have been torn up and put where it belongs i.e. the dustbin.
The plethora of Health and Safety regulations would have been extensively reviewed with the majority being discarded for the nonsense they are. A strong law on trespass would have been introduced (as that in the Republic of Ireland) thus preventing travellers setting up illegal caravan sites on private land. Fines of a £1000 for putting the wrong kind of rubbish in the wrong kind of sack would be scrapped. Catholic adoption agencies would not be forced by law to hand over children to gay couples, thus going against their faith. It is interesting to note a proposed law against ‘arranged marriages’ was quietly dropped because it would have run counter to the faith and culture of Muslims. NHS administrators, the idiots responsible for the running of our hospitals and the introduction of MRSA therein, would be charged with corporate manslaughter and locked away for the sake of the nation’s health and well-being.
Taxpayers would have voted for a reduction in MP’s salaries, expenses and pensions (especially their gold plated pensions) and taken away the right of MPs to vote themselves an increase whenever they felt like it. Before 1911 Members of Parliament carried out their duties to the nation unpaid! Now there’s a thought!! And on and on we could go. Start making your own list in the unlikely event someone in power might just listen. I’m sure the majority of voters in this country could put forth eminently sensible and workable laws for the overall safety and well-being of the nation, all it needs is simple common sense----something that is sadly lacking in the House of Commons.

Yours in Adversity `The Taxi Driver'.