[dietcokeplease]

Saw this in the Financial Mail on Sunday which made me laugh:

"It's a MINI budget by BMW

Corporate Britain's horn-parping Mr Toad characters have long been a prime Treasury target.

From Sir Geoffrey Howe, 20 years back, 20 years back to Gordon Brown today, Chancellors just love to rack up tax on company cars.

But now one man is hitting back. John Merry, chief executive of car distributor Autologic, was the proud owner of a BMW 7 series, just the sort of car the taxman targets. But he has traded it in for another BMW product - the MINI, symbol of the Sixties and star of the Italian Job.

Merry commissioned a signwriter to put "Gordon Brown Special" on the side of the car - as is only fair, given that the Chancellor opened the MINI plant at Oxford last year.

Merry figures that the MINIs price tag is equivalent to the amount saved in tax on his original car. But then, as they say, this is the self-preservation society."

[groovy_jr]

superb!

...can I have his change please!