PC firm lashes out at future British prime minister

In his budget speech yesterday, Gordon Brown (tick: Broons) abolished a benefit which gave employees and employers tax breaks for PCs at home, from April 6th. Brown is tipped to be the next prime minister, after Anthony Charles Lynton Blair steps down sooner or later.

Evesham said Brown was "reneging" on previous commitments and "disrupting many employers' plans" to deliver productivity benefits for thousands of employees.

Evesham will be lobbying Brown to reverse the decision and wants more information about the "cut off rules". Leader of the Tory opposition David Cameron yesterday taunted Brown in parliament for being "analogue rather than digital".

Evesham biz development chief Bill Joss said: "Gordon Brown has pulled the rug from under hundreds of employers and employees across the country. How this action support the government's intent to deliver public services to the community digitally is beyond my comprehension. It recovers a trivial amount of lost tax and impedes IT literacy in the workforce." µ

* BUT IN good news for Scotch drinkers, Chancellor Brown didn't raise the excise duty on usquebaugh.