CBI lashes Gordon Brown over pensions, but Macavity was not there.

From Iain Dales site, the classic poem.

The player is here:

Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Clunking Paw—
For he's the ten-year Chancellor who taxes more and more.
He's the bafflement of Tyneside North, he’s Darlington’s despair:
For when they’re sacked or briefed against—Macavity's not there!

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity
He's broken every golden rule—he breaks the law of amity.
His off balance sheet accounting would make Robert Maxell stare,
But when you open up the books—Macavity's not there!
You may search the whole Smith Institute, or the Cash-for-Honours affair—
But I tell you once and once again, Macavity's not there!
Macavity's a peculiar cat—he's full of tricks and wiles.
He mutters and he mumbles and he hardly ever smiles.
He scarcely talks to colleagues, his head is highly domed
His suit is dusty from neglect, his hair is all uncombed.
He juts his jaw from side to side; he never can relax.
Except when he is planning to impose his hundredth tax.

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
For he's a grudge in human form, a monster of depravity.
He won’t support tuition fees; he won’t back Tony Blair.
And as for foundation hospitals—well, Macavity's not there!

The Cabinet is stuck with him. (It’s said they live in fear.)
And he gives his Budget to the House exactly once a year.
But when defence is looted, or the pension funds are rifled,
Or the tax credits go missing, or John Hutton is found stifled,
Or a greenhouse gas is rising, and Lord Turnbull in despair—
Ay, there's the wonder of the thing! Macavity's not there!
And if he doesn’t like you, then you know that, without fail
You’ll wake up to nasty briefings printed in the Daily Mail.
There may be a scap of paper in the hall or on the stair
But it's useless to investigate—Macavity's not there!

And when the loss has been disclosed, the civil service say:
"It must have been Macavity!"—but he's a mile away.
You'll be sure to find him brooding, or a-chewing of his hand
As he works out how exactly to get rid of Miliband.
Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macacity,
He’s doesn’t care for social grace; he’s short on charm and suavity.
He always has an alibi, or one or two to spare:
And whatever time the leak took place—MACAVITY WASN'T THERE!
And they say that all his colleagues who hold his name in dread
(I might mention Norwich South; I might mention Birkenhead.)
Are nothing more than ciphers for the Cat who never lacks
An excuse to raise some revenue: the Napoleon of Tax!

Oh link to the bit on yet another short sighted mistake by the dour chancellor: mccavity was not there again, reported in the Daily Mail.

Big business today launched a scathing attack on Gordon Brown over his tax raid on pensions. And so our cyclopedian chancellors short sighted view of things has come home to roost, I have often said that he has a narrow view of the UK economy; anyway its just an excuse - and a flimsy one at that - to repost the classic poem.

CBI director general Richard Lambert said Brown's decision in 1997 to scrap tax relief on dividends was a "misjudgment" which contributed significantly to the decline of the pension system.

Lambert, who was editor of the Financial Times at the time of the July 1997 Budget and a member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee from June 2003 until March 2006, said the CBI had privately warned the Treasury that the move was "not a good idea".

He said it made "a significant contribution to the weakening of the country's occupational pensions platform" and added: "There was a misjudgment by the Chancellor."

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