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Budget 2010

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  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    You sound like you like your job as much as I liked mine

    Quite enjoy it actually, just that Sjay stated I was the most miserable !!!!!! on MSE, so thought I may aswell take the opportunity to have a rant :)
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    I wouldnt say you are the most miserable
  • sjaypink
    sjaypink Posts: 6,740 Forumite
    So I am to conclude that everyone is not really that happy at all?

    The mask of jolliness is actually now bemused weary delirium?

    Great :D as long as its now confirmed you're all still miserable underneath. I don't like change :)
    We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    sjaypink wrote: »
    So I am to conclude that everyone is not really that happy at all?

    The mask of jolliness is actually now bemused weary delirium?

    Great :D as long as its now confirmed you're all still miserable underneath. I don't like change :)


    Sweets, I did nae even watch it. We are but a few weeks before an election...did we think they would be mean? Things are erratic and poorly thought out..like the break between stamp duty holiday and these rules. It seems more to me, of he left hand not knowing what the other centre left hand is doing. I thought: ''some people will be duped, some will be furious..but I just don't think I give a damn''.

    I did volunteer today to seal envelopes or something for local conservative candidate (who has the chance only of a very naughty cat in hell). I also told them they were the benefit of my extremely generous offer only by default, so they may not be keen to take me up on it.:D but, I can do something like operate a franking machine as easily as moan here.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    LOL Paxman is making mincemeat out of the labour guy on newsnight at the moment!!

    Asking him over and over again how he is going to save the £555m each year labour have said they will save in the NHS. Must have asked 7 times by now!
  • marklv
    marklv Posts: 1,768 Forumite
    Sad to see that !!!!!!! Darling fall for the easy option of bashing public sector workers will real pay cuts once inflation is take into account. What a lowlife! of course MPs will continue fiddling the system for their own benefit and fat cat bankers will get ever fatter.
  • ukcarper wrote: »
    I wouldnt say you are the most miserable
    Yes, that's true. I am.
  • BRITAIN'S cider drinkers last night greeted the Budget with a glazed expression and a wide, peaceful grin before collapsing into a hedge.

    As chancellor Alistair Darling outlined plans to slash Britain's £1.4 trillion deficit with a new supertax on Diamond White, fans of the beverage were torn between trying to get up or to just accept the situation and go to sleep in the hedge.

    Roy Hobbs, from Peterborough, said: "I feel fine. I do, I feel fine. Tell you what, if each of you can just grab my arms. No, no. Stop. That's not gonna work. Let's just think about this."

    Getting very serious for a moment, he added: "The thing about stuff is, right, is that it's all !!!!!!. It's all just a big fuc*ing game. You know?

    "So this guy says some stuff and other guy goes blah blah and then what happens? How the fu*k should I know? Has anyone got any food?"

    Meanwhile economists said the government's economic strategy would only work if the Diamond White supertax was accompanied by an ambitious national pothole fixing programme and a new version of Grand Theft Auto.

    Julian Cook, chief economist at Donnelly-McPartlin, said: "We should also see some benefit from making first time buyers believe they would be slightly better off if anyone actually gave them a mortgage."

    Mr Darling told the Commons that his package of pathetic bribes and class war proved that Labour was right about you being a moron and is right about you continuing to be a moron.

    The chancellor also stressed that thanks to a dream he had, the fictitious deficit figures for 2014 were now much lower than the ones he originally made-up.

    Declaring war on the people who pay Labour MPs for bull$hit consultancy services, he added: "Those who made the wealth must be made to pay for making the wealth that has made them so wealthy."

    But Martin Bishop, chief economist at Madely-Finnegan: said: "Labour and the trade unions always imagine it's the honest, downtrodden workers who really create the wealth and that rich people are basically characters from a Dickens novel.

    "But of course if the rich people hadn't started the companies then, in all likelihood, the workers would be sitting around in their own dung, guzzling cider and picking the fleas out of each other's pubes."

    Hedge-based consumer, Roy Hobbs, added: "Come on Eileen, oh come on Eileen, oh come on now, oh come ooooon Eileeeeeen.":rotfl:
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