Monday, 24 December 2012

Queen's Christmas Message Hails Taxpaying Stars

From the BBC

The Queen is to pay tribute to the nation's taxpayers in her Christmas broadcast.

She will hail the "splendid year of taxpaying" and highlight how the taxpayers allowed rent-seeking parasites like Olympic athletes to train off their hard work, doing a load of events that no-one watches except to have their own deluded sense of British greatness reinforced.

During the address the Queen will say: "As Britain hosted a splendid year of taxpaying, all those who worked hard all year were wondering why the hell they were having £11bn taken from them under threat of violence for a 3 week festival of hop, skip and jump.

"By trying to give them and their families a better live, they allowed the rest of us to live in luxury for doing a lot of pointless things".

9 comments:

James Higham said...

[Chuckles to himself and wishes Mark Merry Christmas]

Ian Hills said...

...her majesty then parachuted in to the stadium from her helicopter.

Mark Wadsworth said...

JH, ta and likewise, but this was The Stigler's post.

IH, that bit was faked.

Unknown said...

"all those who worked hard all year were wondering why the hell they were having £11bn taken from them under threat of violence for a 3 week festival of hop, skip and jump."


The trouble is, the people werent thinking that at all. They were busy feeling good about themselves because somebody they dont know, who happened to be born on the same land mass as them, ran faster than somebody else they dont know, who happened to be born on a different land mass than them.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Unk: "somebody they dont know, who happened to be born on the same land mass as them, ran faster than somebody else they dont know"

What about Mo Mowlam?

Graeme said...

when will the National lottery be renamed the Voluntary TeamGB Tax ?

Mark Wadsworth said...

G, no, that's a tax on gullibility. Which seems fair enough to me.

A K Haart said...

Ha ha - as sharp and acerbic as ever. Keep it up.

Merry Christmas.

Robin Smith said...

Agreed. Bread and Circuses. Gladiators. They are not even the best ones. They are the best rent seeking gladiators.