Holidaying in Mallorca not only becoming more hassle but also more expensive. | miquel angel canellas
Palma19/10/2024 10:30Updated at 11:01
On June 19 I wrote an article on the Bulletin website which began: “Apart from the seven euro ETIAS EU visa coming into force next Spring and talk of frequent flyers being penalised in the UK to help offset emissions and climate change it has now been revealed that should Labour win the election in two weeks time, which is currently looking highly likely, Air Passenger Duty (APD) will be raised which means that travelling by air and therefore holidays to popular destinations like Mallorca will become even more expensive.”
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TDBloody foreigners. Commies! Every last one of 'em. Good job we left that mess.
Well we all know which way Wales votes and always has done whilst milking the English. The Welsh Government receives £120 of Barnett-based funding for every £100 per person of equivalent UK Government spending in England and yet the Welsh still hate the English.
The irony is thick here. Everybody needs a scapegoat for whatever they don't like. "Socialism" is rarely applied in its actual definition, and has become a derogatory term that encompasses almost anything objectionable. It's become quite subjective. Like "foreigner". For example, the Americans believe that public healthcare is "socialism", but by that same definition, so are public schools, roads, water, sewers, and really, any infrastructure provided to the public by the state. Ironically, even the Tories will defend the NHS, clearly a "socialist" state-run entity. So, when there's something you don't agree with, you can always blame it on "socialism" or "foreigners", or failing that, secret mercenaries from the planet Xetox will do. In any case, it's "them". And you can always justify it because "they" weight the same as a duck.
Thanks Zoltan, when I need advice from a person from a former communist state, I will be sure to call you. Furthermore, VAT on private schools will bring in no money and put a strain on the existing terrible state school system. If you don't see that, then you are a socialist, and I would expect that of you.
TDYou're clueless if you think the labour party are socialist. And why should private schools be exempt from VAT when they are private businesses?
The other lot were dreadful, however Socialism is the politics of envy, hence VAT on private schools, tax increases on IHT and CGT. Socialism is about levelling down not up. Churchill and Thatcher summed it up nicely. Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. W Churchill The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money. M Thatcher
TDYes of course, I forgot the last lot were saints in comparison. GBP200 million given to cronies (check spelling) for PPE still stockpiled in a Turkish warehouse at UK taxpayers expense. Amongst others, many others. In Spain it is called 'corruption', in the UK 'Tory party business as usual'
It will all get worse, socialism is despicable and this lot are the worst ever. Taxing everyone in sight to pay for their own large pensions, give bone idle train drivers huge pay increases and funding the NHS (which is the worst healthcare provider in the first world and should be scrapped). I know several university grads in finance and computer science who are leaving to go to work in the US. The brain drain and exodus of multi millionaires will be huge. Meanwhile Starmer and his croneys will keep taking their free clothes and corporate hospitality whilst taxing the rest of us to death and allow hundreds of thousands of immigrants to pour in. Awful government.