Budget verdict

incher

lostinrates wrote: »

and yet still people opt for ITV vote-o-vision.

What is this vote-o-vision you mention? Don't really watch ITV much these days. What am I missing?!

lostinrates

incher wrote: »

What is this vote-o-vision you mention? Don't really watch ITV much these days. What am I missing?!

Neither do I. Handily MSN page tell me every day who I should be voting for, and if I miss that most of the papers seem to have a decent coverage of who should win Simon Coells various offerings to British performance culture. Which of great comfort to me.

mewbie_2

incher wrote: »

harder when you don't really 'know' the personalities involved, which as a relative newcomer, I don't quite yet!

It took me three years before I got a handle on who was who.

lostinrates

mewbie wrote: »

It took me three years before I got a handle on who was who.

You are obviously in a naughty mood tonight mewbie.

Quasar

Quite frankly, I think the chancellor and the rest of them haven't got the foggiest what to do exactly. They had no idea what the banks were up to, because even the top bankers weren't very clear as to what was happening - as the Dispatches programme has revealed.

Ie. the government is grasping at straws and is desperately trying to replenish its empty coffers. And guess who will decant the money into them....

mewbie_2

lostinrates wrote: »

You are obviously in a naughty mood tonight mewbie.

That's me, being very naughty typing some garbage into MSE. Maybe later I'll nibble something with too much chloresterol in it. Perhaps even stay up after ten pm.

Rock on.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

mewbie wrote: »

That's me, being very naughty typing some garbage into MSE. Maybe later I'll nibble something with too much chloresterol in it. Perhaps even stay up after ten pm.

Rock on.

ten pm







monday!

dervish

Gorgeous_George wrote: »

We are where we are and where we deserve to be.

Consecutive elections have been fought on the promise of tax cuts. Not because tax cuts were affordable nor because they were in the best interests of the Country. Because we are naturally greedy capitalists at heart.
GG

:mad:

what a load of ideologically misguided codswallop.

A low-tax economy is a good economy.

Giving people the pennies in their pocket so they can best decide how to provide their family with security and prosperity is MUCH MUCH better than the state taking everyones moneuy and deciding for them,

Generali

Dithering_Dad wrote: »

Not me, I'm £600 better off this year, and I assume next year and every year after.

I think Labour have saved the UK from the GLOBAL recession. Thank god we had Brown and Darling at the helm at this difficult time. Those damned yanks and their mortgages caused the problem and Labour are the solution.

I'm going to be my share of GBP 47,000,000,000 per year better off as a result of having left. Enjoy your GBP600 as it's going to cost you a lot of money in the end.

Dithering_Dad

Generali wrote: »

I'm going to be my share of GBP 47,000,000,000 per year better off as a result of having left. Enjoy your GBP600 as it's going to cost you a lot of money in the end.

I doubt that you'll be safe in Oz, Gen. They have a 21M population, with obviously a much smaller number of actual tax payers. So fewer people supporting a modern western infrastructure including free health care, state pensions, police, fire, ambulance & lifeguard services, rail & road infrastructure. This is all before you factor in their own economic stimulus package. Quite a burden on so small a number of tax payers.