The Stamp Duty threshold has finally been increased, which many feel is long overdue after the relentless rise in property prices. However, if you have been paying attention you will of course remember that Council Tax is due to be rebanded to reflect the increased value in house prices. So this is nothing more than a con trick.
Old people will get a few quid more, but don't forget that they're about to be shafted sideways when their council tax bill goes up. Brown knows he's not only going to get this money back, he's actually going to make a few quid.
Fuel duty is frozen. Well it's already the most extortionate rate anywhere in the world, so there's actually not much more they can add to this before total anarchy breaks out. By anarchy, I mean a few lorry drivers stopping on a motorway to block it, before the initial wave of public sympathy runs out and they realise that they have been neglecting their core business responsibilities of murdering female hitch-hikers and dumping them in lay-bys in rolled-up carpets.
Mind you, the poor old hauliers can never win becuase the government's best friend, BMW man, is never going to give up his car. Never - no matter how much fuel costs because it is, in every sense, his penis and the only thing about him of any interest, miniscule as it is. He'll pay whatever it takes to sit in a queue of traffic in a suit and what he thinks are designer sun-glasses, thinking he looks cool. Every single person in the world, except for other examples of his archetype, can see instantly what an absolute cunt he so obviously is.
Smokers have been hit hard yet again, with an additional seven pence duty added to the price of twenty cigarettes. Few people have sympathy for smokers, so it's easy for Brown to raise this as much as necessary to balance his temporary, vote-winning freezes. Fags of course, will never go back down again, even if the election is won. However, it is of little importance because France is more than happy to sell millions of billions of fags to day-tripping idiots every year.
Tory leader, Michael Howard commented: "Their only answer is to tax, to spend and to waste - to get people to vote now and pay later." He's right of course, even if he is secretly cursing himself for not having got there first, but what does he suggest? We'll have to wait and see. Meanwhile, the Liberals have made all sorts of wildly attractive, yet practically untenable proposals, safe in the knowledge that they'll never have to put any of them into practice.