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Voters finding Labour's taxing increases are hard to swallow



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Published Date: 07 April 2008
By GEORGE KEREVAN
Labour back-bench MPs are in revolt and the electorate could be next to express disapproval, writes George Kerevan.
THE Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, first met his wife, Maggie, in the Abbotsford Bar in Edinburgh's trendy Rose Street. Rumour has it that he even proposed to her there.

Alas, Mr Darling would have a difficult time making such a d...



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  • Last Updated: 06 April 2008 8:15 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: George Kerevan
 
1

Richardinho,

07/04/2008 00:40:08
10% to 20%? I may not be a maths genius, but that looks like double to me!
I wonder how people will react when they discover their tax has doubled overnight?
2

a proud doonhamer,

Dumfries 07/04/2008 00:46:01
Can the Aberdeen Trades Union Council let me know of the date of the march opposing Labour's elimation of the 10p band? Will the Scottish TUC be organizing a countrywide day of protest to hammer back at the Westminster clowns for their attack on the most vulnerable of our society? Will Red Wendy be reduced to tears by the agony of the vulnerable two year olds whose parents will now have to pay hundreds more instead of buying food and clothing? Will we finally see the abandonment of Labour by their west Scotland masses?

Can anyone answer these questions?
3

donald,

glasgow 07/04/2008 05:12:39
No.
4

Stu_R_20,

Edinburgh 07/04/2008 08:42:48
If these guys aren't the definition of lame ducks I don't know what is.....
5

A Better Way,

Edinburgh 07/04/2008 10:52:08
Between his betrayal of Scotland, by stealing 520 Million Quid from our Government, and his failure to hold a referendum on the EU, which allows the people who vote the right to decide. And his incompetence as a Prime Minister who was never elected by the People of this Nation of Scotland and the rest of the UK. He has run this country into bankruptcy, which even a commitee of Labour Politicians has agreed with. His credentials now only make him eligable to be dragged out of Downing Street and publicly flogged, along with his other traitorous dogs.
6

Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 07/04/2008 10:58:41
The total tax that the average individual pays has more then doubled since this shower of morons came to power in 1997.

Why the hell wer people stupid enough to vote them in? Not just once, but THREE TIMES. Anyone who voted for this shambles of a government needs their brians tested.
7

Joe Macdelta.,

Paisley 07/04/2008 14:21:18
That was a good idea by a "labour" government, to tax the lower paid more, what is next.
Roll on the next general election, Gordon and Co. can try signing on, for a change, what a bunch of no hopers.

 

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