VAT Changes

when there are budget leaks should not somebody resign. Where are all these exclusives coming from, who is saying what to whom, is there a yacht moored on the Thames outside Parliament where dinner parties are being held and conversations being recorded. We must be told.

As for your namesake on the Today programme this morning, hey of course it's alright to tell us what is going to be in the crisis budget this afternoon. I mean it doesn't have any effect on the financial markets.

Also nice that he should pick-up on my theme that if you no longer pay a banker a million pound bonus then you don't half lose some income tax and national insurance, that money has to come from soemwhere.

I wonder how soon the VAT changes are meant to come in because I know that it is not easy to change any computer systems without encountering a few problems.

I hope that Alistair has checked with all the systems analysts as to whether or not they can implement the necessary changes in a timely fashion. Oh to be a consultant today, it will make the year 2000 bug a cake