Rip-Off Britain is still alive and well !

Just because car prices have seemingly come down and some goods in the shops seem to be a little cheaper (thanks to 'on-going sales'), it doesn't mean that we don't still live in Rip-Off Britain. Stealth taxes, including the recent Council tax rises averaging 12.9%, outrageous house price inflation, high fuel taxes and transportation costs across the UK are all indicative of a continuing Rip-Off Britain scenario that has afflicted this country for the past 50 years. The burden of TAX is now the most pressing concern for all living in the UK ...and it won't stop there. Brown has got his maths wrong and I can foresee tremendous rises in stealth and direct taxes in the Budget due this Autumn.

Paul M (aka.Sid) Editor Rip-Off Britain

So what can YOU and I do about it? Apart from complaining - probably nothing.

Even voting has become a sham with a 'two party hose race' - there is nothing to separate the two main parties as far as I can tell.

With 60 million people living on a small island, inflated by thousands and thousands of economic migrants and an infra-structure so fragile that a mere sneeze will bring down industry and create chaos (Re: Blackout in Canada & USA), the objective of people should be to regionalise this country and give ALL Counties the ultimate power over central government. Ask anyone in Cornwall, Wales or Scotland what THEY think, and they'll soon tell you in no uncertain terms!

A radical solution would be to somehow start REDUCING the birth rate of the UK to some degree of 'normalcy'. However, with the population living well beyond the bounds of 'three score & ten' this could take decades to achieve, especially compounded with mass migration into the UK because of sloppy immigration rules and bogus asylum claims.

With an expected influx of 200,000 Eastern Europeans LEGALLY coming to the UK next May when countries like Poland, Lithuania, etc., join the E.U. it's hardly surprising that 15,000 Brits are abandoning the UK EVERY WEEK to start a new life either somewhere in Europe, Canada, Australia & New Zealand.

So there we HAVE a solution! It's 'silly season' so you asked for it!

Let's all sell up and move out of the UK for good - only if we could find work abroad that is!

Ireland is a good bet - there's no Council tax, they speak English and there's only 3.5 million people with little crime to worry about. Then there's France of course. Twice the size of the UK with about the same population as the UK.

Perhaps I'll take the ferry across to France and claim asylum from Rip-Off Britain there!