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Mark Wadsworth Thu May 22, 2008 at 10:21:56 AM GMT
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Let's look at a list* of some of the main things have been made illegal (or might be made illegal) for no good reason (whether such a ban is actually enforced or not in practice is by-the-by) and the two most stupid traffic regulations:
Mark Wadsworth Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 04:43:03 PM GMT
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Ask your MP to sign Early Day Motion 1407, calling for the personal allowance for Income Tax and NIC to be increased to £10,000.
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=35657&SESSION=891
Mark Wadsworth Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 11:22:25 AM GMT
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Excellent, if prices keep falling at
2.5% per month for a year or two, housing will be affordable again!
Mark Wadsworth Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 10:31:23 PM GMT
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If you think about it for a bit and grind the numbers, real growth in the UK economy has only been about 1% a year for the last ten years.
Mark Wadsworth Tue Apr 24, 2007 at 01:00:15 PM GMT
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How will the next PM deal with
things like this?
Mark Wadsworth Fri Apr 13, 2007 at 01:21:43 PM GMT
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...putting John McDonnell to one side for now, whom would people on this site prefer, even if it means choosing the lesser of two evils.
Mark Wadsworth Tue Mar 06, 2007 at 02:50:45 PM GMT
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According to page 9 of the summary, the UK has "virtually eliminated the unemployment trap"
Mark Wadsworth Mon Feb 12, 2007 at 10:31:11 PM GMT
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... for more than half their income. Where did Civitas get this figure from?
Mark Wadsworth Mon Jan 29, 2007 at 09:34:29 PM GMT
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A lot of people (on left and right) say that Scotland should not be allowed to have independence because ...
Mark Wadsworth Sun Jan 14, 2007 at 03:22:41 PM GMT
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The fairest "green tax" would be to significantly increase taxes on all fuel (including red diessel and aircraft fuel) and increase VAT on domestic power to 17.5% to whatever figure is needed to reflect the CO2 that they produce and damage to the environment etc (assuming that anybody knows what the true cost of this is - I certainly don't).
The government should then distribute the total receipts per capita to everybody in the UK as a Universal Benefit.
Mark Wadsworth Sun Nov 12, 2006 at 01:07:03 PM GMT
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Harriet Harmann always starts her answers with the word "Well"
Mark Wadsworth Mon Oct 16, 2006 at 09:14:04 PM GMT
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My old Mum, who was passionately opposed to nuclear anything, once reckoned that nuclear testing caused earthquakes ...
Mark Wadsworth Mon Oct 09, 2006 at 03:07:06 PM GMT
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Can anybody help Platonist who posted the following on ConservativeHome ...
Mark Wadsworth Wed Sep 27, 2006 at 05:14:40 PM GMT
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