I have to hand it to the Brown One, his slightly creepy softly softly approach does seem to be lulling the UK voters into a dreamy " it must be OK Gordon says so" reminds me of the snake in Jungle Book.
Of course, what is really going on is just as devious and nasty as anything he perpetrated with his mate Bliar.
Judge them by what they do not what they say.
I'll give you a couple of examples.
Inheritance Tax, a particularly nasty tax this,it is the method by which Brown steals my lifes work from my grandchildren.
In 1997 the average house price in the UK was £68,000, the point at which Inheritance Tax became payable was £215,000 thats 3.6 times the house value.With the house only going 32% of the way towards an Inheritance Tax liability it was way beyond most peoples dreams of their ultimate wealth
Now in 2007 the average house price in the UK is £200,000 and the point at which Inheritance Tax becomes payable is £285,000 and still rising fast, thats now 1.4 times the house value. We now have a situation in which the house on its own takes you 70% of the way to an Inheritance Tax liability, Add a few savings and the assetts that have been accumulated during a life time and guess what it now gets everyone who owns a house. Of course the idle and feckless are exempt but thats how things are in New Labours Britain
In 1997 the average brits view was " its only the rich bastards who have to pay it so I don't care" but oh so quietly the Brown One has crept up behind them, silently sliding in the knife between the shoulder blades and now its going to be them that pay, well actually its their children and grandchildren.
NOW The Brown One wants to steal the contents of savings accounts that have been dormant for more than 10 years as well, I don't know about you but I have savings accounts that just sit there with a small sum of money waiting for a rainy day. so when I need it I will find its been stolen by the Government, yes I know there will be a procedure to get it back, you can just imagine how complex and expensive that will be.
Oh and just to show Browns real intent this only covers private money, he wants the, coincidentally very similar sums held dormant in the State owned National Savings schemes to be exempt.
So the quietly delivered message is I can steal yours but I'm not touching the money that I hold for you.
The more they change the more they remain the same