Finally, a good use for those massive screens the BBC have across the country that doesn’t involve sports.
October 2009 Archives
Yeah, I know the math ain’t this simple and the numbers are a bit hand wavy, but hey ho.
news.bbc article UK rates ‘to stay low for years’ mentions a (real?) government goal
to slash the UK budget deficit by £100bn over the next parliament.
Another news.bbc piece talks about The Great British Fire Sale!! (£16bn assets sale).
Now, I grant you this is 2002 data, but the Guardian reckons the working population in the UK is ~28million.
So, let’s put all that together:
- 100 billion minus 16 billion (being generous, assuming we get that price and there are no costs that need to be offset against it)
- 28 million tax paying workers (I’m ignoring income from corporations … just because)
- 4 years (“over the next parliment”)
Helpfully, Google can do the math for us.
£750 per year, per tax payer., for four years. Or about £2 per day.
Note that this isn’t necessarily coming out of your pay packet. It could come from cutting services you use. But, on average, each worker needs to provide or save £750.
Not considered here:
- Corportation taxes
- Interest the government pays on that 100 billion “loan” until it’s paid off
- What we might profit (or loose?) from our investment in the banks
Scott Fotheringham, from carpenteroakandwoodland.com, on timber built supermarkets
Tesco announced plans to spend £100m on research into wind, solar and geothermal power, twice as much as Gordon Brown promised in the last budget. Interesting that Mark Soutar, Head of Environmental Construction for Tesco said that they got more publicity by sticking two little wind turbines on the roof of one of their stores which only powered the signage than any of their other environmental measures.
