Labour's Budget is Unfair to the Irish
In yesterday's Budget Chancellor Alistair Darling announced that the tax on beer is to go up by 4 pence a pint, the tax on wine is to go up by 14 pence a bottle and the tax on spirits will go up by 55 pence a bottle from midnight on Sunday, 16th March 2008. These are tax raising measures pure and simply and will do nothing to tackle the problems of alcohol abuse.However, the timing of the increases will come as a great disappointment to the millions of Irish resident in both Britain and Northern Ireland as they come into effect on the eve of St Patrick's Day, 17th March, Ireland's National Holiday.One would have thought that the cabinet's one Irish born member, Ruth Kelly, Secretary of State for Transport and Heathrow Expansion, would have interceded on behalf of her fellow Irish people.Of course both the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exhcequer are Puritanical Scots and may not believe in celebrating St Patrick's Day. Shame on them; if it weren't for the Irish the Scots would still be heathens !
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