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UK Coalition Government Comprehensive Spending Review - Oct 20th 2010

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  • UnderPressure
    UnderPressure Posts: 3,204 Forumite
    dori2o wrote: »
    Cuts for the poor, cuts for the middle classes, nothing against the richest in the country. No mention of reductions in the tax gap, and no mention of tax evasion.

    Tory's ALWAYS choose the easiest targets. Nothing has changed since Thatcher.

    He did announce an extra 900 million to be spent on tax evasion and fraud, they seem to think by spending this 900 million they can re-coup 7 billion!

    Time will tell on that one.................
    "You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure"
    Sir Winston Churchill
  • robin_banks
    robin_banks Posts: 15,778 Forumite
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    Blacklight wrote: »
    Complete 106 page document of the review

    Danny boy left a copy of that in a pub in Kennington last night.
    "An arrogant and self-righteous Guardian reading tvv@t".

    !!!!!! is all that about?
  • Wheezy_2
    Wheezy_2 Posts: 1,879 Forumite
    I'm still upset StevieJ is getting a bridge. :mad:

    If he wants a bridge he can pay for it himself. Bloodsucking scum all of them


    :)
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Sir_Humphrey wrote: »
    It's the stuff he did not mention in the speech that needs to be looked at closely.

    I have learnt nothing about my own area of work that I did not know before the statement.

    I guess if he went through the lot he'd be standing there until the next time he had to give the speech!

    I hope you don't lose your job BTW. Unfortunately lots of your colleagues will and I know exactly how tough it is when you lose your job and your chosen industry isn't hiring.
  • UnderPressure
    UnderPressure Posts: 3,204 Forumite
    Blacklight wrote: »
    Complete 106 page document of the review


    EXCELLENT find :)
    "You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure"
    Sir Winston Churchill
  • Butterfly_Brain
    Butterfly_Brain Posts: 8,862 Forumite
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    Why ring fence foreign aid? Charity begins at home and I resent taxpayers money bailing them out all the time when nothing has changed for over 40 years of aid to these countries.
    Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones that let in the light
    C.R.A.P R.O.L.L.Z. Member #35 Butterfly Brain + OH - Foraging Fixers
    Not Buying it 2015!
  • doire_2
    doire_2 Posts: 2,280 Forumite
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    For someone meant to be cutting he sure is spending a lot.
  • misskool
    misskool Posts: 12,832 Forumite
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    :D can i ask a kind soul to find me higher education (HEFCE cuts) and is the science budget to stay without cuts until 2014??
  • Mr_Mumble
    Mr_Mumble Posts: 1,758 Forumite
    Butterfly_Brain wrote: »
    Why ring fence foreign aid? Charity begins at home and I resent taxpayers money bailing them out all the time when nothing has changed for over 40 years of aid to these countries.
    The 47% hike in "international development" spending is crazy. The overseas aid spend will overtake Transport, Justice, the Home Office and Northern Ireland in the next five years. £500 per household per year when the government is adding nearly £21,000 of debt onto each household during this parliament.

    Charity begins at home except for do-gooder toffs who can burden the poor in their own country by giving to the rich, to 'distribute', in poor countries.
    "The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, 1848.
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    it's harder than it looks!

    Not a line you should use too often though.
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