Channel 4 News: 50p Tax Rate, Do Britons Think it Will Make a Difference?

Source:The New Democrat

I guess New Labour is going back to being Old Labour and talking about fifty percent tax rates. If you think taxes are too high in America whatever income level you are at, try living in Britain and you’ll think the taxes in America are almost nothing. Top tax rate in the United States currently is thirty-three percent. United Kingdom it is somewhere in the forties right now and then you add up all sorts of other taxes to pay for all the public social services in the country all run by the national government there and you could be paying as much seventy percent in taxes if not more. Even Britain which is one of the most socialist democracies in the world, puts limits on how much they want government, especially their national government doing for them and how much they’ll pay for it. As we’ve seen in the last four years of the David Cameron government there.

Channel 4 News UK: 'Lord Patten Says BBC News Needs Radical Overhaul'

Source:Channel 4 News UK- U.K. House of Commons member Harriet Herman.

"The Chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten insists he won't be quitting but admitted it was his task to ensure the corporation "got a grip". 

From Channel 4 News UK

"Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network. Its headquarters are in London, with a National HQ[clarification needed] in Leeds, and creative hubs in Glasgow and Bristol.[1] It began its transmission on 2 November 1982, the day after Welsh language broadcaster S4C's launch. The channel was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom; at the time the only other channels were the licence-funded BBC One and BBC Two, and a single commercial broadcasting network ITV.

It is publicly owned and advertising-funded; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA),[2] the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport,[3] which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. In 2010, Channel 4 extended service into Wales and became a UK-wide television channel." 

From Wikipedia

As someone whose not British, I see the problems with BBC News again from 3000 miles away, as being too close to the UK Government and they need to be separated so the British know they are getting what's actually news. Rather than what the Conservative Government or whoever is in charge of the United Kingdom, telling the British what they want the British to know. Freedom of speech and an independent media is critical for any democracy, whether it's a liberal democracy or a social democracy like in Britain, so the people in the country are as well informed as possible.

Channel 4 News UK: 'Brazilian Crack Cocaine Epidemic'

Source:Channel 4 News UK- with a look at crack cocaine in Brazil.

"Ahead of the country hosting major international sporting events, Brazil's second city is in the grip of a crack cocaine epidemic." 

From Channel 4 News 

"Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public service television network. Its headquarters are at 124 Horseferry Road, London, with a National HQ[clarification needed] at the Majestic Cinema, Leeds, and creative hubs in Glasgow and Bristol.[1]

It began its transmission on 2 November 1982, the day after Welsh language broadcaster S4C's launch. The channel was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom; at the time the only other channels were the licence-funded BBC 1 and BBC 2, and a single commercial broadcasting network ITV. It is publicly owned and advertising-funded; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA),[2] the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport,[3] which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. In 2010, Channel 4 extended service into Wales and became a UK-wide television channel." 

From Wikipedia

It's not just America, Mexico, and Canada that have drug wars.