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King Charles has at long last taken action against Andrew. Andrew has become a ‘Commoner’ – just like you and me.

This should mean living like a Commoner, ending the life of privilege and entitlement.

So, when he moves to Sandringham, he needs to be allocated some accomodation – it’s not for him to choose – possibly four bedrooms. Small enough for him to manage.

His major pubic funding needs to end. He should be told that the King will kindly match the State Pension until he is of pensionable age, and he also has his naval pension. Around £30,000 per annnum. Possibly he should pay rent.

As such he will not be able to afford much by way of ‘staff’. The days of people running around after him, being insulted and condescended to, need to be over.

And who would work for him from chice anyway? This means that he can partially fill his days by making his bed, doing his own cooking, washing up and cleaning. Likewise laundry and the kinds of other task that are done by ‘Commoners’.

Likewise no security staff – so no help for him from them…..

He’ll obviously whine that he is used to more, a rather superior lifestyle, but he has blown that. It’s time for him to live an ‘ordinary’ life like the rest of us. And be seen to do so.

While he is about it, the King needs to a ddress the issue of Harry (and Meghan). Harry likewise is no longer a ‘Royal’ – he has chosen to walk away from that. He ha said he wants the life of a Commoner, not a Royal.

But, as they say, he is trying to have his cake and eat it. He recently met with British soldiers in Canada. He behaves as if he is still ‘Royalty’, somebody special. When in fact he has chosen to be ‘ordinary’. They appear to be wanting to do a quasi ‘Royal’ tour to Australia. I assume they still want to be treated with deference, as if he is still somebody special.

The King should deal with this, and remove their remaining titles. Make it clear he cannot call himslef a Prince, or a Duke. Meghan will have to stop be ‘annouced’ as ‘Her Duchess’, and signing as ‘Duchess’.

They have chosen the ‘Commoner life – they don’t want to do the Royal ‘hard yards’ (compare this with Princess Anne) – so they need to stop trying to exploit the historic Royal connection.

We say growth is a priority.  With the low forecasts, any growth would be a bonus. So why not really incentivise it?

Make growth tax free!

Would it not send a very clear message that the Government is committed to growth as a priority if it made it (more or less) tax free.  I’m surprised the ‘nudge unit’ haven’t suggested this.

We could announce that any growth now is (more or less) tax free. For five years.

For existing businesses, this would involve reporting on any growth areas – new markets, new products….. And it would be ‘net growth’, the increase on existing turnover.

For new businesses this would be everything…..

And this would be about new profits arising from growth…

Possibly you could charge tax on the first slice – equivalent to an inflation element (putting prices up is not ‘growth’).  This would give the government some benefit from growth.  Beyond that you could possibly charge a simple 10% tax, not much but more than what is presently anticipated. Likewise drop VAT to 10% on growth revenue. Possibly reinforce tax breaks on new capital investment.

This could create a really positive sentiment – ‘can do’ thinking – affirmng that the UK is open to business. It would make the UK attractive to foreign businesses and investors.

And what is there to lose….?

I am launching this blog – it’s a complicated process and I’m feeling my way technically.  Please bear with me!

I hope to offer interesting ideas on current issues, political, social, economic and so on.  With an emphasis on doing good, trying to make the world a better place.

I hope to make a success of this.  At university I met Arianna Stassinopulous – I was the proverbial ‘poor boy’ – she wore a different ‘haute couture’ designer dress for every debate when she was President of the Union – daughter of a Greek ship owner – and she went on to found Huffington Post… so I know what is possible…..

I will dedicate all of this to my wife.  We come from the UK and Brazil respectively, and are hoping to settle in Spain.  I feel as if we ought to be able to live wherever we want, but technically we are ‘immigrants’ and only conditionally welcome.  But hopefully happy days together in lovely Andalucia.

Blogs to follow!

Teasers to follow

reclining seats on planes

Air rifle procurement

Viability of grapes and olives

Keir’s too busy…….

AI cannot answer a question……..

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