If Guido is correct...

that the Conservatives are planning to have tax man snitches in everyone's bank accounts, Grex will start making plans to relocate.

If the Tories pull this stupid stunt many people - human behaviour being what it is - will start running as much of their business in cash as possible and using barter to obtain goods and services. Not that Grex thinks this is entirely a bad thing. The economy that surrounds our allotments is a model of unregulated social enterprise which knits the community together and means you rarely leave without something to plant or put in the pot.

But, along with the devastation of manufacturing under Labour, all this will do is help inch Britain back towards the status of a developing country.

The idea of a Conservative government is, surely, to keep your nose out of our affairs, cut government in size and scope and simplify the tax system and tax take so that we are content to pay our fair share rather being being bent over the table as we are at present by Labour.

Speaking of which THE TEETH! THE TEETH OMG THE TEETH!

John Redwood MP

talks sense about the Redcar Corus steel plant which starts the 'mothballing' process today. For that read closure and the site being levelled and turned into housing and more out of town shopping sheds.

Good luck cleaning that site up: driving through it to get to South Gare it is like driving through some post-apocalyptic sci-fi set.

The Grex is a local and over thirty years has seen heavy industry leave Teesside and little come in to replace it. How to get economic basket cases like Teesside moving again will be one of the huge challenges facing the (Grex bets) incoming Conservative government.

Grex recommends they just nick the Lib Dem plans to raise the tax threshold, give everyone working in the black economy a one-off chance to register and go legit no questions asked and make it easier, much easier to run a business. John and I are signing - singing, not miming - off the same hymn sheet on this one.

Debt per family racked up by this government...

£29,520, according to the Spectator's Coffee House national debt counter.

No business (unless it's a too-big-to-fail-bank, of course), local authority, charity or family would be allowed to behave in this way. Why is a government? I wrote to my MP and asked what could we do about it (rioting being illegal), could we take the Government to court, demand they stop borrowing, get an injunction on them selling more bloody debt and get a grip on the national finances?

I got a reply telling me how good Conservative economic policy was, without enlightening me as to what it is. I would have to wait to find out, but BOY! would it be good? Oh yes!

So: this Lisbon 'not a constitution'.

Grex wrote to his MP recently in something of a paddy about the Lisbon constitution. Put simply, I wanted a say and no bastard appears to want to let me have one. At 45 I am too young to have votes about our membership of the European Union and I don't see what we get for our £12 billion a year.

(Insert obligatory bit about liking the continent - I do, Italy especially - and having lots of European friends and relatives - I have).

I wanted a vote and I wanted every other adult in this country to have a vote and I am delighted I left the Liberal Democrats long before they perpetrated the treachery where they supported the Labour Party in opposing a referendum.

Not that the Conservatives covered themselves in glory. My MP Robert Goodwill was a honking disappointment. No, he wrote, there is no point in having referendum if the Conservatives come to power because it wouldn't have any effect.

What?

Mr Goodwill blamed the Labour Party (as I do) but did the weazelly thing of saying that it was a done deal, could not be undone and that nice Mr Cameron would be 'repatriating important powers' come a Conservative government. Thing is, I don't believe him. I think the Conservatives will go Euro-native on this and on other matters, like public spending.

And what is the point of people like Mr Goodwill with their arses on the green benches if the place in which he sits can, by its own admission, do nothing about a treaty which Parliament passed in the teeth of opposition from the majority of the country? Seriously, what is the point of our Parliament and Government if it can't retrospcetively amend something as fundamental to our rights and liberties?

Mr Goodwill and Mr Cameron need to think about that and allow us our say on the EU. My vote for Mr Goodwill (and this is a marginal) depends on that. And I will damn well be leafletting this area about it between now and tha election.

Now go and support The Albion Alliance.

No no no no! BBC Five Live goes further down the bog.

The talent exodus from BBC Radio 5 Live continues apace. With Simon Mayo leaving the 1-4pm slot this week and being replaced with the ego-regious Richard Bacon, the listenersship of this station goes down by a further one.

Many like Bacon, but his shouty opinionated egocentric presenting is a complete turn off. Grex was a once Mancunian, is still a northerner and thinks economic development in the North is a good thing*. But moving 5 Live up there has just stripped it of talent as presenters whose lives and careers are in London opt to stay put.

*However, Grex worries that too much public sector investment has gone into the North, depriving people of the urge and opportunity to set up a business, make some cash and get our effing Labour Party paralysed private sector motoring again.

Striking British Airways unions: sue the bastards.

So: lots of people who have worked their asses off all year have paid good money to buy flights abroad to see family and friends for Christmas.

You would think some kind of contract exists between British Airways and the flyers. But some trade union has just, unilaterally decided to void that deal by unilaterally deciding on a 12 day strike over Christmas, thereby ruining approximiately 1,000,000 flights and the same number of Christmases.

A lot of people will be sweating and worrying tonight. Why can't every person so upset drag Unite's sorry collectivised asses into court and sue them for the return of their fare (including ruinous taxes), credit card fees and the costs of any replacement ticket plus damages for distress and annoyance. That'd make 'em think again before holding people's holidays to ransome.