With Rachel Reeves's stern words from Downing Street on Tuesday, many are wondering if she’s about to hike income tax. It seems pretty clear she’s about to put some sort of tax up in the autumn Budget. Reeves’s justification for doing so is that “the world has thrown even more challenges our way”; it’s the usual guff, as though an act of God were the only reason the UK’s economy is in disarray. But the Government is also wasting astronomical sums of money and has no excuse to tax the nation more. Behold, here are 10 examples of what we’re currently being charged for, totalling £23 million (and there’s a lot more where that came from). These are university studies, either funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council or the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship.
£4,092,635 – The Centre for People’s Justice, University of Liverpool (Apr 25-Apr 30)
The Centre is a “coalition of over 45 organisations from community, business, philanthropic, cultural, artistic, charitable, legal, government and university sectors”, led by the University of Liverpool Law School. It “pursues change-making research that responds to the public’s need and desire for fairer, safer and more inclusive societies”, and offers “Social Justice PhDs” – just what UK taxpayers are crying out for!
The project, which began in
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This kind of nonsense is precisely why I gave up my “little” post-retirement job a few months ago and now have a life of leisure, which is simplified so that I pay as little tax as I possibly can.
As a child, my parents taught me that there are two main ways of having more money: earn more, or spend less. It’s obvious that Theeves never learnt that lesson since she’s destroying the means of earning more and refuses to spend less.
I’m now operating both: my income is reduced, but so is my spending on VAT-attracting goods and services. I refuse to fund this Marxist Government’s profligacy any more than I absolutely have to.
And that is how an economy dies.
I read the titles and it makes me want to cry. They could be in a foreign language and would make as much sense.
I think the prevalence of art in these pseudo-studies is because the (post-)modern definition of art no longer relates to any particular ability to do anything (like painting pictures) but is basically do whatever you want (and then call it art). That’s evident in a statement like
creating benefits and opportunities for researchers, engagement practitioners and a wide range of research, cultural and community organisations
I mean, isn’t this absolutely great? Taxpayer-funded research to create benefits for tax-payer funded researchers, what more could the public possibly want? Only misers would want taxpayer-funded reasearch to create benefits for the public!
“creating benefits and opportunities for researchers, engagement practitioners and a wide range of research, cultural and community organisations”
How would Da Vinci describe how he worked and the benefits of what he produced.
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Presumably, that he worked as painter to produce paintings commissioned by people who wanted to have a painting of something because that was what he did.
Then there are all the anti white racist and delusional trans promoting programmes otherwise known as DEI throughout the police, judiciary, civil service and the rest of the public sector, worth a few million, Ukraine, Chagos, COP 30 and all the other net zero nonsense including subsidies for renewables, millions to France for doing nothing about illegal immigration from their shores, millions in overseas aid everywhere because reasons, millions to Ed Milliband’s travel budget. And so it goes on…
Follow that money. These waste of time, low IQ, White/Anglo phobic ‘projects’ are in the main money laundering exercises and propaganda. Endless government leads inevitably to this not so glittering scum of bird exrement floating on the polluted pond of secular culture.
my guess is that’s just the tip of the iceberg
I was thinking it is just the edge of the black hole.