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Who is going to Blog the Budget for us?
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i thought that it was quite a pleasant budget and doesn't sound like it will be too painful - uncomfortable maybe but not the kind of pain people were predicting.I honestly don't think think the budget went far enough.
A new government has a certain amount of goodwill, you have maybe six months before that dries up.
I think they have wasted the single chance they had to really make a difference.
hopefully these guys have got the balance right and they sort a few of the issues out.0 -
AMILLIONDOLLARS wrote: »What do you mean, these will be subject to the 20% VAT increase!
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I know....but I also expected the normal 10p per packet of ciggies, 3p on a pint etc, 2p on a litre of fuel over and above any rises in VAT.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
I honestly don't think think the budget went far enough.
A new government has a certain amount of goodwill, you have maybe six months before that dries up.
I think they have wasted the single chance they had to really make a difference.
They never had a choice.
No government was ever going to deliberately implement policies that would tip the country back into recession. Nor cause another big house price crash.
It would be impossible to get re-elected.
This one has gone as close as they dare....“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
i thought that it was quite a pleasant budget and doesn't sound like it will be too painful - uncomfortable maybe but not the kind of pain people were predicting.
hopefully these guys have got the balance right and they sort a few of the issues out.
That'll be the LibDem influence.
Frankly I expected them to go straight for the jugular, I think everyone did.
It worries me that they didn't.
Take my Ma for instance (not that any sane person would) she gets several hundred quid every winter to help pay her gas bill.
Hello. Why? She owns half the frakking town I live in.
Blanket benefits like the winter fuel allowance should have gone. Give my Ma's share to the little auld lady who is wearing three jumpers and a tea cosy in her sitting room and tell my Ma to switch her thermostat down.
I could go on..............Retail is the only therapy that works0 -
I wouldn't put money on that just yet.HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »They never had a choice.
No government was ever going to deliberately implement policies that would tip the country back into recession. Nor cause another big house price crash.
It would be impossible to get re-elected.
This one has gone as close as they dare....I think....0 -
lostinrates wrote: »What about the council housing within the blocked boroughs? what happens to that?
My guess is that the rents will be much lower. However I'm also thinking if I was sitting in a £750k council house in a nice area of London, I'd have found a way to use right to buy by now.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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please don't...
Everyone goes on about the underclass but the above-median-incomes (who says I can't be politically correct) are as addicted to benefits as any Tracey in a high rise. I had hoped this would be adressed in a meaningful way.
I had also hoped the defence budget would be cut to match our European partners. Although I realise that was unrealistic given we have a conversative government.
I figure the fags and booze things was common sense.Retail is the only therapy that works0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »There was an article in the Evening Standard tonight showing which areas of London will now be off-limits for HB. The article is at the link before, you can click in a map once there:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23848265-housing-benefit-curbs-will-push-out-the-poor.do
The rich boroughs like Wandsworth already dump their expensive tenants into somewhere like Sutton - that is how they managed to get a zero level of council tax in Maggie Thatcher's time.
Of course these benefit households then re-created their "cycle of deprivation", out of site, out of mind, and on someone else's cheque book out in Sutton.
The same thing is already happening in East London, where ghetto communities get pushed out into Barking & Dagenham. Is it any wonder that the existing working class community start voting BNP ?
Well the latest election results look like "building sustainable communities" or what ever it was that Dame Shirley called creating ghettos of benefit claimants in poor permanent Labour wards.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/england/8668885.stm0 -
Mary_Hartnell wrote: »The rich boroughs like Wandsworth already dump their expensive tenants into somewhere like Sutton - that is how they managed to get a zero level of council tax in Maggie Thatcher's time.
Of course these benefit households then re-created their "cycle of poverty", out of site, out of mind, and someone else's cheque book out in Sutton.
The same thing is already happening in East London, where ghetto communities get pushed out into Barking & Dagenham. Is it any wonder that the existing working class community start voting BNP ?
Well the latest election results look like "building sustainable communities" or what ever it was that Dame Shirley called creating ghettos of benefit claimants in poor permanent Labour wards.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/england/8668885.stm
I get my bin emptied.
I pay a fortune to the local bliddy council and all I can see is a bin enptied every Thursday. I pay a man with a van to take my garden rubbish away so, I suspect, the bin emptying thing is a waste of their time and my money.
I am sure I get more for my money. Christmas lights, free internet at the library.
Tell me I am getting more........Retail is the only therapy that works0
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