I keep thinking about the Google thing. The tax avoidance. They cynical use of Euro rules and regulations to pass intellectual property (cos they don’t own or sell anything physical) through to Ireland for tax purposes, even though my clicking takes place in London rather than Dublin.

And as much as I think about it, I don’t get too upset about it. I should. Its immoral (possibly) its robbing England of tax money, which costs me, personally, and its little hypocritical of a company founded on a ‘moral’ ideology and on being ‘young and hipster’ and kind of anti-establishment big biz. ‘We do things right’, they claimed. And still I can’t get as upset as I do with Starbucks or even Amazon.

Because Google is free. Costs me (and you, and you, and you…) not one penny ever. And I use it every single day, repeatedly. And they hadn’t broken any laws. If, with our most amazingly complex and impenetrable tax laws, they can’t make some applying to this situation; more fool them.

So let’s say that the ‘Italian Deal’ of about 350 million quid, is right and is about 200 mil more than the UK one, which George Osborne thought was some major fucking coup, tosser that he unquestionably is. So 200 mil. And we have a population of 60 mil. So each person in the UK has been ‘cheated’ out of about 4 quid. Over 10 years. Let’s say only half the population use Google, so those who do are paying 80p a year for a brilliant and unfailing service that they use all the time. If Google did start charging (heaven forbid), we’d happily pay a fiver a month. Of tax paid income. So you’d need to earn £7 or £9 a month to buy it.

And we’re moaning about £8 over ten years. Well, you are, I’m special.

The government costs us billions each year to run and we don’t get anything like the benefits we do from google. In fact if they had elections tomorrow I’d vote for Google to be the next president. Even though we don’t have one.

So less of your whingeing. It could be worse. If you google ‘Donald Trump’, it says ‘billionaire, loud-mouthed, comb-over-king, quiz show host, racist, xenophobic tosser… who stands a good chance of becoming the most powerful man in the most powerful nation on the planet’.

Well, it should do.

Happy Friday

A xxxx