Andy Zaltzman Quotes

If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.

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• If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.

  

  Andy Zaltzman
  • Tax
  • Princes
  • Statue