Another Labour tax on families

The Labour Government has confirmed it intends to slap a broadband tax on families before the forthcoming General Election.

The new tax will be charged on everyone in this country with a fixed telephone line.

We should be seeking to stimulate investment in broadband which is so vital for this country to compete effectively in the global market.

But putting yet more financial burdens on already hard-pressed families is not the way forward.

Once again, Labour ministers have got it wrong.

Normal service is resumed

Today marks that special moment when all remaining pupils go back to school following the summer holidays, and some sense of normality and routine returns to the lives of parents up and down the country.

Meanwhile, with Gordon Brown now back behind his desk for almost a week, the now familiar pattern of U-turn and chaos is back at the heart of government.

This is not to say that his line-up of deputies including Harriet Harman, Jack Straw, Alistair Darling and Peter Mandelson did any better whilst they were supposedly “running the country.”

But nobody can quite mess things up as effectively as Gordon “Where Can I Hide?” Brown.

The ongoing Libyan controversy is, of course, self-inflicted on so many levels.

And if he thinks a quick flying visit to Camp Bastion is going to suddenly win support for his tragically flawed approach to the ongoing war in Afghanistan, well, he’s simply more deluded than ever.

On the bright side, at least the countdown to the General Election is now properly underway.

Thursday 6 May 2010 is still thought to be his preferred date but, for the sake of Keighley and Ilkley not to mention the nation as a whole, I hope polling day is much sooner than that