Two items in today’s newspaper illustrate perfectly the problem we face as citizens* in our own countries today. First, there’s this in which;
the Prime Minister makes clear his intention to “give something back” from a stronger economy.
Later on we find this where we learn that
Lord Mandelson is still paid £8,600 a month by the EU despite leaving his Brussels post two years ago and earning hundreds of thousands in royalties from his memoir…
Firstly, it’s that ‘give back,’ that really tells the tale. It is time that governments were informed that what they are so graciously ‘giving back,’ is, in actuality, not theirs to give – it belongs to us in the first place and they have no right to take it unless we agree. Taxes are the price we pay for the maintenance of the society in which we wish to live. There is no inherent right for governments to tax their citizens unless those same citizens agree. There is also no inherent duty for a citizen to pay tax, unless he agrees to do so for what he and his fellows agree is a common good. (It should also be the case that should a citizen decline to be taxed he is also deemed to decline any benefit from his fellow citizens’ taxation.)
Next, the revelation that the fat cats of the EUSSR bureaucracy have given themselves privileges denied to the citizens of EU countries demonstrates all that is wrong with this anti-democratic, bureaucracy-ridden rerun of the Soviet Union. it should be noted that it is not just the elite who receive such privileges, all Eurocrats have arranged privileges for themselves above and beyond those of the taxpayers who fund their lifestyle. Inflated, inflation- and recession-proof wages, artificially low rates of taxation, special schools for their children, staff-holidays at tax-payer expense, non-accountable expense allowances… the list goes on.
It is time and beyond for ‘we, the people’ to take back the powers we have thoughtlessly surrendered. Let’s have a Tea Party UK!
*Actually, I’m not a ‘citizen’ of anything, I’m a subject of Her Majesty, and proud of it.
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Count me in Bravo !
Me too.
People could have voted for UKIP but they didn’t!
One has to presume they would rather be under the yoke of the EU?
The ones that really didn’t like it have already voted with their feet. Look at this site alone, virtually a total diaspora.
I did CO, not that it made any difference! I’ll join, Bravo
bravo –
It seems that as soon as politicians get their hands on our money, suddenly and magnanimously it becomes their personal largesse to distribute as they see fit.
I don’t know that a Tea Party UK would achieve anything more than splitting the UKIP vote – I’m sure those in government would be very pleased indeed to see the influence of those who disapprove of the EUSSR further diluted.
Yes, there is that problem. However, the Tea Party in the US are registered Republicans, so it follows that their equivalents in the UK should join the Tory party. Kill two birds with one stone – strengthen the right of centre political base and move it in the right direction?
bravo –
That would only work if the Tory party were Eurosceptic – alas, it isn’t. I would love to see a really good case made for our continuing membership – every week, the Economist bangs the Eurodrum, but they do not tell me why it is such a good thing, and for the life of me, I cannot see it myself.
Nor I Squarepeg, nor I.
Always remember, if voting ever changed anything it would be made illegal
Democracy does indeed have its downsides. 🙂
And in today’s newspaper, we have this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/8025009/The-great-parking-fine-scandal.html
‘Manager.’ Bureaucrat is what is meant. We need to remind these people that councils are elected to provide services to local citizens, not to provide jobs for bureaucrats.