More than two-thirds of all income tax, the biggest single source of income for the Government, now comes from fewer than one in six of the country's 31 million taxpayers.
The figures also reveal that, assuming a total population of 65.5 million people, more than half the population pay no income tax at all. 
 The Labour Party (don't let names deceive you) proposes to tax more, but if some of these top payers decide to clear out and have nothing further to do with  fantasisers, how in hell with the socialists raise the money they want to fritter?
What we have been doing over many many years is to subsidise the ridculously low wages people earn in this country, enabling industry to pay out even more of their profits in dividends.
The quality of managment in this couyntry is poor and has always been based on the principles of a quick profit with lower spend on research, design and equipment and a Labour Party filled with class hate.

Just finished watching "The Fall"on TV. Notorious for its sexual violence and ending up as a shaggy dog story in which the villain gets away with murders We desperately wanted this villain to be caught and in fact the lady police Superintendent had the perfect opportunity.
You may remember that she was standing in a hallway at the police station looking at her recently painted fingernails. At that moment the killer was being brought in for questioning. They looked at each other as they passed by. At the end, the killer phoned her to tell her that he was escaping and in doing so he mentioned her red fingernails. All she needed to do was to get his name and bring him in.
Pity that. Now we have to watch another series in which he can kill a lot more women.

IS GOLD THE ANSWER?

You may have noticed that the price of gold has risen since our beloved Gordon Brown sold our gold reserves because urgently needed more money to give away to his potential voters. The price is now stratospheric and going upwards. Its not just the Greeks bearing gifts but also the need for more gold bangles in India and the fact that  people round the world have lost faith in their own governments abilities to actually run their finances. So this is the situation. Everybody is buying gold bars or Kruger rands to bury in their back gardens in case of a total financial collapse.

If such an event were to occur, how would hoarding gold help the average citizen- or even the quite wealthy ones? Old Git remembers that just after the last war people exchanged all sorts of expensive possessions for basic needs such a food or clothing or heating materials. A Gold bar might have bought you a few eggs or a bunch of carrots.

Farmers would become the major holders of gold reserves. Basically it might become pretty useless stuff. If you are really worried about a total collapse of world economies you might be better off stocking up with tinned food