On 10/10/2012 10:10, brass monkey wrote:
"tim....." wrote in message
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"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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GMM wrote:

My local butchers used to have a counter selling cooked chickens and
other hot stuff. Went in there the other day and it was gone, replaced
by
a 'deli' counter, selling imported cooked meats, olives and stuff like
that. Apparently they concluded that nobody would pay the extra 20%, so
decided to try selling over-priced
imported stuff instead. Oh, and they had to lose one member of staff in
the process.

A bit allegorical really: Nothing they had done over the past couple of
years has been thought through, so nothing has achieved anything useful
...apart from pleasing the Daily Mail, of course.

VAT really has become a complete disgrace - 8.5% and 12.5% were
acceptible.

1/5 extra is not. Especially when you know they are just going to waste
half
of it.

define "waste"

Buying duck houses for one.


I don't recall a duck house being bought on expenses.

What is a waste is the cost of new administration overseeing MP's
expenses, which is more than all the fraudulent claims that came to light.