Yes, stealth taxes abound!
For an average British fellow making 100,000 pounds annually, how much tax might he pay?
He'll be in the 40% tax bracket so he'll see roughly £60,000 of that.
Generally, are Londoners happy that Red Ken is gone?
Yes, Ken was a big waster of public funds and channeled them into unelected non-accountable quangos that could have instead been used for better transport systems and public utilities. To his credit new mayor Boris Johnson has said he's going to have a bonfire of all this unwanted bureaucracy, but it's early days yet to know whether to believe him or not.
Boris’s presence has, as I understand it, already led to a shutdown or freeze of several boondoggle projects.
Which has directly effected the company I work for - our London Transport Planning section suddenly has no work. But that’s the price of doing work for socialist empires like the GLC. I don’t blame Boris.