A rare day at home. How quaint. Although now i have seen just what the other half of the Country gets to do on a Sunday it's going to be rough justice next weekend.
Cleaning cars, walking to the pub, DIY, walking the dog you name it I have seen it all outside today, semi-detached Suburbia as it was once so eloquently put.
So what make me so different?. Why not for me the gentle stroll to the pub with a few mates and a few sherbets and then home for lunch?. What went wrong for me after the Doctor held me up in front of mother and said "it's a boy Mrs James"?.
I can't answer that, but fate intervened in my early years and meant I left home at 15, this was the start of a fierce independence that has never left me and continues to haunt me even today. I became self-employed in my mid twenties and "Madame Own Boss" has had me in her spell ever since. Not for me holidays in the sun and lazy days spent appreciating the finer elements of life on this planet, nope, for me there has been 7 days a week work, continuous unrelenting work.
Now, I hear "think of the money" from a few of you shouting in the background, well let me assure you if it was for the money then i have wasted 25+ years of my life because successive governments, the tax man, the vat man and uncle Tom Cobbley and all have seen to it that for my effort there is little to show, admittedly it is building up again after a huge hit 3 years ago, that saw me in a David and Goliath battle (yet again with the gov) and but for the help of a guardian angel i was out for the count but got given the opportunity to take it all forwards, which is where I am now, but this has now taken a heavy toll, as you would expect.
So if you are considering being self employed then let me give you a little taster of just what it's like to get your name above the door in current day Britain.
A good friend of mine just earned £720.00 for driving a lorry all week, he was away for two nights. The lorry is paid for without any finance outstanding. The lorry earned its happy boss £2700 + vat for its weeks toil. Immediately that is reduced to £1980 by my friend for his hard work driving the truck. If you then go to fuel at £1.20 + vat per litre you get a bill of £1200 + vat. That leaves our truck owner with £780.00. Then take out £100 a week for insuring the monster and wear and tear and road tax at £1200 a year.. and you start to see that our man has his name on the door but very little else to show for his efforts.
Now the astute of you will say there is a recurring theme here, e.g : tax. You are of course right, this is the sharp end of successive governments blind alley approach to the small business, I have taken trucking as an example here but it is the same in any small business, if it isn't road tax its business rates (or money for old rope in proper English) there is no incentive to go out on your own and be an entrepreneur, the Government will take all your profit and give it to anyone and everything except put it back into the infrastructure you need to carry out your business, roads, telecom, hospitals, schools etc.
The whole Government bandwagon has been rolling since William the Conqueror days so, successive in-breeding has led to an "expected entitlement" to become an MP.
If your face doesn't fit in the corridors of Oxford it's Hasta la Vista baby for you, no matter how good your business skills or fitness to govern, in fact the powers that be in Westminster WANT this to be so because power corrupts and nothing corrupts like absolute power, it's a game of cat and mouse with these upper class twits trying not to get caught by the press or their watchdogs with their hand in the till and even when they are caught they get pensioned off.
At some point the real people of this Country will have to say enough is enough, hopefully before another treasonable little note of contempt is left on the treasurers desk announcing "the money has all gone".
Labour had 12 years and screwed it up, Con-Lab have made more u-turns than a Polish Truck driver at Spaghetti Junction in a white out.. so where to next?.
Well, how about we head uphill and select the next PM elect from the level headed and less interbred Northern hemisphere, after all let's call a spade a spade, if they sat on their asses like i did today and did nothing we would still be better off with them than this load of business ignorant numbskulls.
Cleaning cars, walking to the pub, DIY, walking the dog you name it I have seen it all outside today, semi-detached Suburbia as it was once so eloquently put.
So what make me so different?. Why not for me the gentle stroll to the pub with a few mates and a few sherbets and then home for lunch?. What went wrong for me after the Doctor held me up in front of mother and said "it's a boy Mrs James"?.
I can't answer that, but fate intervened in my early years and meant I left home at 15, this was the start of a fierce independence that has never left me and continues to haunt me even today. I became self-employed in my mid twenties and "Madame Own Boss" has had me in her spell ever since. Not for me holidays in the sun and lazy days spent appreciating the finer elements of life on this planet, nope, for me there has been 7 days a week work, continuous unrelenting work.
Now, I hear "think of the money" from a few of you shouting in the background, well let me assure you if it was for the money then i have wasted 25+ years of my life because successive governments, the tax man, the vat man and uncle Tom Cobbley and all have seen to it that for my effort there is little to show, admittedly it is building up again after a huge hit 3 years ago, that saw me in a David and Goliath battle (yet again with the gov) and but for the help of a guardian angel i was out for the count but got given the opportunity to take it all forwards, which is where I am now, but this has now taken a heavy toll, as you would expect.
So if you are considering being self employed then let me give you a little taster of just what it's like to get your name above the door in current day Britain.
A good friend of mine just earned £720.00 for driving a lorry all week, he was away for two nights. The lorry is paid for without any finance outstanding. The lorry earned its happy boss £2700 + vat for its weeks toil. Immediately that is reduced to £1980 by my friend for his hard work driving the truck. If you then go to fuel at £1.20 + vat per litre you get a bill of £1200 + vat. That leaves our truck owner with £780.00. Then take out £100 a week for insuring the monster and wear and tear and road tax at £1200 a year.. and you start to see that our man has his name on the door but very little else to show for his efforts.
Now the astute of you will say there is a recurring theme here, e.g : tax. You are of course right, this is the sharp end of successive governments blind alley approach to the small business, I have taken trucking as an example here but it is the same in any small business, if it isn't road tax its business rates (or money for old rope in proper English) there is no incentive to go out on your own and be an entrepreneur, the Government will take all your profit and give it to anyone and everything except put it back into the infrastructure you need to carry out your business, roads, telecom, hospitals, schools etc.
The whole Government bandwagon has been rolling since William the Conqueror days so, successive in-breeding has led to an "expected entitlement" to become an MP.
If your face doesn't fit in the corridors of Oxford it's Hasta la Vista baby for you, no matter how good your business skills or fitness to govern, in fact the powers that be in Westminster WANT this to be so because power corrupts and nothing corrupts like absolute power, it's a game of cat and mouse with these upper class twits trying not to get caught by the press or their watchdogs with their hand in the till and even when they are caught they get pensioned off.
At some point the real people of this Country will have to say enough is enough, hopefully before another treasonable little note of contempt is left on the treasurers desk announcing "the money has all gone".
Labour had 12 years and screwed it up, Con-Lab have made more u-turns than a Polish Truck driver at Spaghetti Junction in a white out.. so where to next?.
Well, how about we head uphill and select the next PM elect from the level headed and less interbred Northern hemisphere, after all let's call a spade a spade, if they sat on their asses like i did today and did nothing we would still be better off with them than this load of business ignorant numbskulls.
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