Child Benefit fiasco: cuts 'unravelling' already...

sjaypink

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

83% approval rating.

It seems carol has a truly unique definition of the word "unravelling".

Errr ... its a Sun poll??????! :cool::D

robin_banks

chucky wrote: »

yes you're right because cutting Child Benefit is a much, much better solution than cutting the massive Defence budget.

maybe you should take some of your own advice "Armchair critics should become councillors or run sizable budgets themselves before passing scorn on others."

Largest land forces in Europe, yet we're an Island.

The Parachute regiment should be scrapped for a start.

sss555s

vivatifosi wrote: »

I know that they are looking at switching RPI based inflation rates to CPI ones, even for private pensions, will have my eyes open for anything else.

I'd liked to have seen a full public sector pension fund for all.

Seems a bit unfair that the private sector has to pay for their own cwap pension and contribute to the public sectors good pension while the public sector just contribute to their own.

Course, if i was that bothered i could always become a public sector employee :beer:

sss555s

sjaypink wrote: »

Errr ... its a Sun poll??????! :cool::D

There have been one or two worse polls on here the last day or so.

robin_banks

chucky wrote: »

there are much bigger kills to save money than child benefit.

defence and the 'social protection' benefits are more important.

it looks more and more like they are making a political statement.

There's one biggy, a real biggy, that's only going to get bigger.

robin_banks

sss555s wrote: »

I'd liked to have seen a full public sector pension fund for all.

Seems a bit unfair that the private sector has to pay for their own cwap pension and contribute to the public sectors good pension while the public sector just contribute to their own.

Course, if i was that bothered i could always become a public sector employee :beer:

At a time when so many are likely to leave ?

sss555s

robin_banks wrote: »

At a time when so many are likely to leave ?

I don't mean as a new measure. But it's possibly how it should have been even if it was watered down a bit to share about.


That was an interesting program on last night showing how "dodgy" the whole pension industry is and how the dealers can make more "kickback" on worse performing products.

Course the poor old pensioner is the one who loses out.

sjaypink

sss555s wrote: »

There have been one or two worse polls on here the last day or so.

I have obviously missed out on so much

Bet benefits board and DT have been fun last few weeks.......... :eek: :cool: :A

chucky

robin_banks wrote: »

There's one biggy, a real biggy, that's only going to get bigger.

come on shun... shpill the beans...