:rant: A GREAT READ FOR ALL OF US FRUSTRATED TAXPAYERS!!!!! :headvswal

 

Have you ever thrown your arms up in despair while trying to complete an official form and asked yourself "Just what is the point of this?" You're not alone.

 

Red tape in Britain has reached epidemic proportions. In just 12 months the Government produced a shocking 3,621 pieces of legislation, running to a total of 98,600 pages. That's 70 times as long as War and Peace! :shock:

 

- That there are 279 different tax forms for businesses alone, asking a total of 6,614 questions.

 

- The notes explaining the Treasury's 'simplified' pensions' regime ran to 1,369 pages.

- And why does the Inland Revenue feel the need to ask us on a tax return, whether we are deep-sea divers?

 

 

- The law allows you to kill or give away a bullfinch - but not to sell or barter it.

 

- A woman from Kilbride was given an ASBO forbidding her from answering the door in her underwear.

 

- A council spent £5,000 planting yew trees to screen a new children's play area. It then dug them up again after health and safety experts advised children could fall ill if they gobbled 'several handfuls' of leaves.

 

 

Red tape and more red tape...

 

- One Police force discovered that it had a total of 1,150 different forms on which to report crimes.

 

- There are 1,300 pages of road traffic law - and that does not even include the law preventing petrol stations selling hot food after 11pm unless they apply for a licence.

 

- Employers must not hold important meetings on 31 October - it might discriminate against pagans, who, of course, celebrate the festival of Samhain on that day.

 

- A motorist in Waltham Forest, East London, was fined for parking on double yellow lines that were not even there when he parked his car. The lorry painting the lines had drawn around the stationary vehicle. :confused:

 

- The following things have been reported to be banned in at least one school: making daisy chains (risk of picking up germs); playing hopscotch (risk of injury); making anything out of egg boxes (fear of salmonella); putting hands up (makes pupils who don't have the answers feel victimised); and throwing paper aeroplanes (might cause eye injuries)...

 

 

:rant: “And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.” (St Matthew 26.33)

 

In just 16 words the Lord separated the sheep from the goats. If only the National Assembly of Wales could be so succinct. But sadly not. On 4 April 2006 it passed the Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (Wales) Order 2006, regulating the size, shape and colour of ear tags on Welsh sheep and goats. It ran to 45 pages.

 

This dictates that the goat must not be moved (from one field to another!)unless it has an ear tag in place, and unless the details are recored in two seperate documents- the farmers own tag register and a movement document that accompanies the animal wherever it travels.

 

 

Nothing is simple, even when its just common sense.

 

Nothing exemplifies this better than the rules and regulations surrounding abandoned shopping trolleys.

You and I might think it would simply be a case of the council ringing up any nearby super- markets and threatening to confiscate and crush any abandoned trolleys in their neighbourhood.

But no! Under the Clean Neighbourhood and Environment Act 2005, the council first has to devise a 'shopping trolley policy' by following these costly and labour-intensive steps:

 

1. CONSULT with the British Retail Consortium, the Association of Town Centre Management, the Association Of Convenience Stores, the police, landowners and local residents.

 

2. PUBLISH notice of its resolution in at least one local newspaper.

 

3. IMPLEMENT the new policy as long as permission is sought from the occupier of the land where the trolley was found.

 

4. STORE the removed trolley for six weeks during which time it may be claimed by the owner.

 

5. CLAIM costs of transport, administration and storage in exchange for returning the trolley

 

 

 

AND THERES MUCH

 

 

Extracted from ‘How to label a Goat’ by Ross Clark (Harriman House, £9.99) Order @ £6.50 (p&p free) by going on http://www.harriman-house.com/goat

 

I’m not selling anything and don’t have a stake in this[/b]- just thought could be great present!!

 

Could be very useful 'putting world to rights' later in the pub!! :duffer:

 

Regards

 

Dave :nana2:

well they gotta find something to spend our tax on otherwise they cant charge us more we are paying for these twats to sit there and come up with these rediculous legislations:rant:

soo true i hate this country. if i just had the money i would move out of here!!

Arrrrrggggghhhhhhh Help get me out of here. Who passes all these insane rules and regulations they most have so much free time on their hands. They should be made to clean our streets and fix up our school's and hospital buildings.

bo**cks ! This is the greatest country in the world ! Beer for the gentlemen , and white wine for the laydees !

bo**cks ! This is the greatest country in the world ! Beer for the gentlemen , and white wine for the laydees !

 

obviously hes an immigrant :rofl: :rofl:

Rejoice brothers (and sisters) for within the hour the new rules on importation of goods from the EU will be announced. You can then buy all duty free goods on t'interweb.

 

HOORAH, we can all drink and smoke ourselves to death for half the price.

Rejoice brothers (and sisters) for within the hour the new rules on importation of goods from the EU will be announced. You can then buy all duty free goods on t'interweb.

 

HOORAH, we can all drink and smoke ourselves to death for half the price.

 

UPDATE.....

 

.....it wasn't passed :tongue: ;)

Yeah I know, DAMN Bureaucrats lining their own pockets and balls to everyone else. Portugal here I come!.