Dog Tax: an update

You may remember that last week I blogged about Labour's new stealth-tax; mandatory dog insurance.


You'll be very pleased to hear that a mere seven days after it's proposal, Alan Johnson has made a humiliating U-turn and decided to drop the plans.

With an election only weeks away, and the massive negative response from the public to this proposal it was the only sensible thing for Labour to do.  Perhaps the only thing more sensible would have been not to bother with it in the first place.

Don't be fooled into thinking that it's dead and gone though; it was merely mistimed.  Let this serve as a sharp reminder of the kind of things Labour will be looking to do if we give them another five years at the helm.