Digby goes off message
Fraser Nelson 10:27pm
For some time I have been waiting for Digby Jones to return to his good old unpredictable self. It's happening in tomorrow's FT where Labour's trade minister says Darling's copycat clampdown on non doms will cost Britain. Jones suggests that the non-dom rules have caused people to ask "does this mean you don't want us?" He adds:
"I can give you five reasons to invest in Britain before you invest elsewhere in Europe. But maybe there were seven and now there are five"Who has turned seven into five? His boss, Gordon Brown.
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William
February 8th, 2008 10:57am Report this commentSo, the guy who objected to kids earning £5 an hour cries buckets over a small number of wealthy individual paying a small annual charge. Quelle surprise. Maybe he'll make our day by tripping and falling on his face or something.
David Lindsay
February 8th, 2008 5:12pm Report this commentDigby Jones was possibly the weirdest of all Brown's appointments. On record that he has voted both Tory and Liberal, but has never voted Labour and never will, someone should ask him straight how he does or will now vote in local and European elections, and why. As for his mates, the non-doms, it is beyond scandalous that non-domicile tax status has persisted under governments drawn either (never mind both) from an ostensibly social-democratic party with a strong patriotic streak or from an ostensibly nationalistic party with Disraelian roots. "Ostensibly" is obviously the word. Jones says that he used to have seven ways of selling Britain to foreigners, but now he has only five. What were the other two? "Britain: Freeloaders Welcome" and "Britain: We Discriminate Against Our Own People", presumably. Good riddance to them. Good riddance to Jones as soon as possible. And good riddance to both parties even sooner.
Max Kaye
February 8th, 2008 7:49pm Report this commentI think Digby is in Government just for the sheer fun of getting up Brown's nose. He should beware, though: Gordon may yet eat him up. There are precedents.
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