Bill Nighy and his chums have picked on add time to launch their proposal for a new tax on bankers. Among other things, the Robin Hood Tax would be used to “fund crucial action against climate change”. Like what, exactly? A PR campaign to restore the battered reputation of the IPCC? A bail out for Toyota so it can continue to make its defective ecoboxes? (To read more, click here.)
Re: The Robin Hood Tax is a terrible ... I mean brilliant idea
Posted by Alastair Constance on 10-02-2010 16:06:
Hi Toby, I appreciate your comments on the Robin Hood Tax and to a large extent you're absolutely right. That said I think there's a massive opportunity for companies to show the way by adopting a similarly tiny tax on their own transactions. An example would be Ethical Currency (www.ethicalcurrency.com) who already do. If companies and consumers voted with their business then a critical mass of 'The People's Will' might just be reached. We know what that has achieved historically.
Alastair.
Re: The Robin Hood Tax is a terrible ... I mean brilliant idea
Posted by Sacha on 10-02-2010 21:35:
Toby, can't think of any other way to get hold of caroline, can you get her to ring me 0208 364 2677, flushed phone down toilet and lost all my contacts...
Re: The Robin Hood Tax is a terrible ... I mean brilliant idea
Posted by Stepney on 12-02-2010 17:11:
Why can't some of the revenue raised by this be spent on making more primetime TV programmes about the Prime Minister?
Perhaps an hour on a Saturday at 7:30pm, 30 minutes of what's going on in the Brown house every weekday at 7:00pm and then a 3 and a half hour Gordon Brown omnibus on Sundays at 2 in the afternoon?
I think this would be as good a use of the money as spending in on the poor polar bears.
