I know my rights.

No taxation without representation.

I pay my taxes.

Then I pay more.

Its all very well for George Osbourne to get all smug and complacent about ‘how well the economy is doing’ due to a few obscure economic criteria which affect not one ‘real’ person in this country. George has never had a proper job in his life. Unless ‘slagging off Ed Balls’ is now a vocational university course that I missed on the UCAS form. George arranged that we (the tax paying public) should buy the Royal Bank of Scotland and what a shrewd investment that was, on our behalf as they’ve now lost £40 billion in total and will never be able to repay the debt. But still manage to provide a nice bonus for their hard-working staff. Who were guitly of mis-selling virtually everything from dodgy insurance and unrepayable mortgages, to crack cocaine, 2nd hand Reliant Robins and double glazing.

Yet George isn’t the problem. In this particular context. Only in most others.

The problem is this ‘mansion tax’ that the Lib-Dems and Labourites keep banging on about. The ‘brain-child’ (though he apparently has very little brain and I don’t think was ever a child) of Vince Cable. The uber-tosser Lib-Dem business type person. Who first levelled the concept as ‘a tax on all homes valued over £1million’. Tax ‘the rich’.

But ‘the rich’ wouldn’t be seen dead in a mere 1 million pound home; their houses cost loads of millions. A one million pound house is half of London properties. Whereas the best house imaginable, a castle with a moat in 98 acres of Derbyshire countryside, up north, can be had for £427,995, including the servants, footmen, butlers, maids (see ’12 years a slave’ for full details). Thus they’ve now upgraded it to a house over £2 million being subject to this tax, should those total unfeeling bastards ever, heaven forbid, become our government. Though technically, I s’pose, Vince Cable is ‘government’ or ‘half government’ due to the folly that is ‘the coalition’.

So basically, this horrendous proposition, this outrageous suggestion will charge people 1% of the value of their house over 2 million quid. Every year. Just for having the thing. Income is unimportant; if the house is worth 3 mil, you pay 10 grand a year just for living there, you fucking rich, southern, cockney bastard!!

Yet to pay that 10 grand, you’ll need to earn 20 grand. Assuming that these people are high rate tax payers. Thus effectively its a 2% tax before you start. Let alone the consideration that ‘no man should ever be taxed twice… unless its vat… or fuel duty… or any of the others’ that we’re cleverly suckered into paying.

Mansion tax is a hateful idea conceived by hateful men. If it is implemented I shall be forced to move (even though I don’t have a 3 million pound house; but that’s not the point. If only I knew what the point was?) I shall go to the third world. Or ‘Leeds’ as its known. Maybe Barnsley, Liverpool, Grimsby, where everything is cheap. And nasty.

At least Manchester United Juan a game at last.

Happy wednesday

A xxxx