No, nor do I really, which is why I haven't signed up to the campaign or put anything about it on my sidebar. Darling seems a pleasant enough guy and I'm not in favour of persecuting anyone (Robert Kilroy-Silk excepted).
That said, I can't agree he's merely doing what every other Chancellor has done:
(1) He's going to raise alcohol duty by 2% above inflation for the next four years. Talk about "sliding down the razorblade of life."
(2) He's put 55p on spirits, a significant jolt to the Scotch whisky industry.
(3) He's doing all this at a time when we're losing 27 pubs a week, a national disaster in its way. If ever there's been a time to treat them gently, I feel this is it.
What three otherwise sensible people have said about Webside Gleanings
It is a treasurehouse of the bizarre and the offbeat, and it could quite easily eat up 30-60 minutes of your day every day unless you approach it with caution. So - be cautious, be self-disciplined, but do go and have a look. It's a gem.
A charming compendium of the amusing, irritating and obscene, often in the same link. Its cross-eyed editor is an unsung genius who provides a happy meeting place on the net for the disillusioned, the slightly sociopathic, and people with a laptop who have a long time to wait for their train. A familiarity with the more arcane reaches of Church history may help the reader with the less obvious jokes.
It's like wandering into an emporium with lots of choice trinkets and ornaments that you never knew existed and would look just lovely on the mantelpiece.
Not only is it difficult to know the truth about anything, but to tell the truth when one knows it, to find words that will not obscure or pervert it, is in my experience an exhausting effort.
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I do not approve.
No, nor do I really, which is why I haven't signed up to the campaign or put anything about it on my sidebar. Darling seems a pleasant enough guy and I'm not in favour of persecuting anyone (Robert Kilroy-Silk excepted).
That said, I can't agree he's merely doing what every other Chancellor has done:
(1) He's going to raise alcohol duty by 2% above inflation for the next four years. Talk about "sliding down the razorblade of life."
(2) He's put 55p on spirits, a significant jolt to the Scotch whisky industry.
(3) He's doing all this at a time when we're losing 27 pubs a week, a national disaster in its way. If ever there's been a time to treat them gently, I feel this is it.
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