'What should I ask George Osborne? Question suggestions wanted.' blog discussion

antbarson

I'd like to ask him , since their 'leader' is a multi-millionaire, how he can be in touch with the electorate and how on earth he can instruct his party to do what is best for the majority of the country, and not just the elitist minority.

I can't imagine the Torries would do any good for the UK economy, the average person or the average saver. If you have £1 million or more in the bank, vote Conservative, otherwise you (we on here) will be worse off.

Sad fact, but can no one remember what happened in the 80's?

Cornish_Pasty

I was wondering the other day, we pay tax on our wages, then we pay National Insurance and we also pay Council tax. What do we get for our money, so far I have narrowed it down to emergency services and binmen, although they seem to want to charge more for doing the same job lately.

As a single person, with no kids and fully employed (always have been) I claim no benefits, live in the country, so we have no street lights or kerbs or white lines!!!. so apart from paying for Northern Rocks bonuses, Polititians pay rises, playstations and dvds for prisoners, protection for the likes of John Venables, and police to sit in laybys waiting for the odd speeding ,motorist, where does my money go?

Cornish_Pasty

mineallmine wrote: »

Here's some quick ideas:
- does he think banks work sufficiently hard to make things clear for their customers in relation to things like APR, fees, terms and conditions? Or is the small print getting smaller?

- does he think the energy companies and energy efficiency organisations do enough to promote information about grants? Scrappage scheme allowances and other energy effiency measures?



PS: just wanted to say how many questions being posed are coming from people only joining MSE this month and their first post being a question for George Osborne, or with a really low post count - hopefully nothing ominous there?? No Labour or Tory peeps in our midst planting questions?? Remember hearing something about netmums experiencing things like this.

Best of luck Martin.

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In reply to your PS.......Some of us may have low post counts, but we have also been following Martin for years, we don't all have time to sit at the computer all day!!!!

edgex

you could ask him:

How does he think he can a chancellor, with responsibility not just for the government accounts, but also personal & business taxation, when he has never had a real job in his life?

amys83

Please could you ask him why the MP'S are aloud a good pay rise when they simply RIPPED OFF the country and yet people who work dam hard for the NHS whether they are cleaners or health care assistants, register nurses get nothing compeared to them and yet we are put MORE under- pressure to meet goverment targets. WHY IS IT? . Just look at the election compain "that they are going to improve the NHS" what by appling more targets, do they realise that we are ment to be looking after the patients not there targets when actualy the targets are putting patients at risk and we are try our hardest to make sure the patients wellbeing is our first proity and yet we get basically shot if we dont meet there targets. ITS ALL WRONG.

Iswis

I'd like to know if the Tories promise to review the SRA, currently 65, earlier than 2012. I am due to be a victim of this outmoded and offensive law in 18 months and would like something done about it before my 65th. I feel I have much more to give, plus it will have a disastrous effect on my already meagre standard of living ( I work for a Charity which I DO love). If the pension age is to be increased to 68 then ????????

ThinkingOfLinking

boydo wrote: »

Why can't COUNCIL TAX be ABOLISHED and Replaced by a FAIRER system based on ABILITY to PAY as suggested by the IS IT FAIR CAMPAIGN?

I had thought of this myself to be honest, but it would likely be met with much opposition simply as the scars from the poll tax haven't healed and a new Conservative government would be keen to remove itself from such memories.

mineallmine

Cornish_Pasty wrote: »

In reply to your PS.......Some of us may have low post counts, but we have also been following Martin for years, we don't all have time to sit at the computer all day!!!!

CP apols if this was seen as a dig at those with low post counts, sorry not meant it that way. After all I started with a nil post count at one time. :A More that some questions posed in this thread, are the very first (or second) post that people have made who are brand new to MSE. I remember hearing an interview with the woman behind netmums who had interviewed a politician and their site had been saturated with questions from brand new users whose web presence was restricted to those questions only. Let's hope the influx of newbies flocking to this thread prove me to be incorrect in assuming this is possibly unusual and that they positively contribute to the excellent site and resource for all things financial that is MSE.
Again sorry if it caused any offence, truly wasn't meant that way. :A

ThinkingOfLinking

eilidh_the_dancer wrote: »

could you please ask him if he would abolish prescription costs for people with asthma and similar conditions. It is a life threatening condition and without medication most asthmatics could die and yet we still have to pay for prescription charges, which can add up as some of us are on 2/3 inhalers or tablets and need them at least every month. Gorden Brown did promise to look into this and agreed to review and abolish it but that appears to have been an empty promise.

I started a petition via the Prime Minister's website the other year and got nowhere with it...on the same subject. My inhalers cost around £60 a month...and if I don't have them, I could die. I've died from asthma before (and had to be rescusitated) so it IS a life threatening condition.

Gorgeous_George

Ask him if he is still morally bankrupt?

Mr Osborne was rebuked by Parliament's sleaze watchdog for abusing the second home allowance to fund a complicated property deal.
He had to repay £1,666 after it was ruled he breached regulations by adding repairs and purchase costs to his taxpayer-funded mortgage. The shadow chancellor had been claiming interest payments on a £450,000 home loan he took out on a country pile originally purchased for £445,000 in cash. He bought the farmhouse in his Cheshire seat before getting elected in 2001 and designated it his main residence. That meant he could claim Commons allowances on his family home in trendy Notting Hill, which cost him £700,000 in 1998. The Osbornes owed just £150,000 on the property in 2000 but remortgaged it for £620,299 months later.

Three years later they took out the mortgage on their Cheshire pad and switched the second home designation so taxpayers covered the interest payments on this instead. They sold their London home for a £748,000 profit in '06, moving down the road a £1.85m house

Just another thief.

GG