Con-Lib agreement on a £10k personal allowance for income tax?

nearlynew

10k tax threshold and george osbourne to be chancellor.

according to the bbc

carolt

mbga9pgf wrote: »

Tell him to grow a pair of balls and suck it up. First valuable lesson in life; ignore the Oiks, they wont be laughing when you go to study medicine when they are stacking shelves in Asda.

I do agree with whoever it was who said it's how you bring up the children. I was brought up with entirely hand-me down clothes, from a girl who was the daughter of a friend of my parents and who was about 4 years older than me and vastly fatter; she hewrself had got them as hand-me-downs from some cousins of hers in America. Thus by the time I got to actually wear anything it was a least about 7 years out of date, and doubly worn.

It didn't bother me in the slightest; I was not brought up spoiled or to expect new stuff, so I was perfectly happy. It wasn't until I was 12 and wore a pair of astonishingly flared jeans to go ice-skating with a friend that I realised 70's fashion might not be entirely appropriate in 1983.

With my kids, I cheerfully say no where any kind of brands are concerned, and point out how going for a cheap, unbranded version will mean mummy has to work less and we'll have more money to spend on other stuff we want, like toys, books or holidays. I teach them that people obsessed with brands and appearance are usually like that because of lack of self-confidence, and that we should pity them rather than try to be like them. I try to teach them that it is what is inside not on the outside that matters.

I'm pleased to say my DDs seem to have found friends with similar values.

kabayiri

Carol is right, but somehow there is more to this.

I'd love it if the flashy 'want it now'/rack up the debts type people were able to see a different way of living a sorted life and think "hey, they seem to get by ok in no-brand trainers; and they get to have holidays too".

It'll never happen of course. If shops couldn't persuade every child that they really need the next iphone 9G, the next Nintendo Dsiii, the consumer economy would collapse.

zygurat789

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

My local farm shop usually does them for around 15p each and Aldi and the like do a bag for around 50p?

ali x

We haven't seen them for less than 25P each and usually 30p in Tescos

zygurat789

lemonjelly wrote: »

See, the problem with any relativist arguement, is they are all self defeating.

Essentially you are saying "well it depends on your perspective..." Now, if you are saying this, you are effectively saying all perspectives are equally valid. Which means that the exact opposite of your arguement is as valid as the arguement you've put forward. Surely that can't be right. There has to be things which are true, & things which aren't...Doesn't there?

Do even you understand what you have said?