Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-30-2010

[andrewducker]

• Public to be given power to veto council tax bills. Stupid idea. We already have that power - we can vote them out.
  (tags: tax uk EpicFail)
• Complex benefits system to be replaced by one payment.
  Could be good, could be bad. Certainly, anything that makes the form-filling simpler is a good thing.
  (tags: welfare uk politics)
• Tokyo's 'oldest man' had been dead for 30 years
  (tags: death japan news wtf)
• Big Five Personality types affect women's approach to childbirth
  (tags: personality children psychology)
• A rebuttal to the gerrymandering claims made by Labour
  (tags: politics uk)

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm.... I know quite a few women who are fairly neurotic and delaying having kids!

Vote on council tax

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

This morning on R4 a govt spokesman mentioned casually that the cheapest way to have these referendum would be when people were voting for councillors anyway.

[skington.livejournal.com]

Because making it easier for people to decide that they pay too much tax worked so well for California.