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Osborne looking for ideas

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  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Loughton_Monkey wrote: »
    Well I've got all my "suggestions for Growth" in.

    5. Free Stakeholder Pension contributions (£3,600) per annum for the unemployed.

    I think we (effectively) already have that, I think it is called pension credit and is not just for the unemployed ;)
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Joe_Bloggs
    Joe_Bloggs Posts: 4,535 Forumite
    Politicians need to be seen to be listening even when the decisions are all stitched up months ago.

    The key feature of the budget will be a clear run for bankers to get bonuses to be able to further support the party in power. Perhaps tax relief on political donations. Maybe a new tax haven region within the M25.

    J_B.
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    If you want business to expand to take on more labour it seems sensible to ask them what rule changes would encourage them to do that.


    I think that perhaps they should be in a position to know this already bearing in mind their budget & forecasts were based on a private led recovery. ;)
    Not Again
  • Paulgonnabedebtfree
    Paulgonnabedebtfree Posts: 2,740 Forumite
    Wheezy wrote: »
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/04/chancellor-crowdsources-budget-ideas-george-osborne





    Is this for real?

    Apparently so.
    When I first read it, I thought I had picked up "Private Eye" or "Viz" by mistake.

    I will suggest that they form a coalition with the Lib-Dems as the Tories don't have enough good ideas of their own.
  • Paulgonnabedebtfree
    Paulgonnabedebtfree Posts: 2,740 Forumite
    Joe_Bloggs wrote: »
    Politicians need to be seen to be listening even when the decisions are all stitched up months ago.

    The key feature of the budget will be a clear run for bankers to get bonuses to be able to further support the party in power. Perhaps tax relief on political donations. Maybe a new tax haven region within the M25.

    J_B.

    Indeed. Preferably the middle lane.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Paulgonnabedebtfree wrote: »
    Apparently so.
    When I first read it, I thought I had picked up "Private Eye" or "Viz" by mistake.

    I will suggest that they form a coalition with the Lib-Dems as the Tories don't have enough good ideas of their own.

    I agree, it does read like a Daily Mash headline.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Joe_Bloggs
    Joe_Bloggs Posts: 4,535 Forumite
    Project Merlin is probably Daily Mash material. If not it might make the budget.
    When I mentioned an inside M25 haven I did not rule out yachts or palatial business premises on the Thames. The Thames could be a Monaco type harbour.
    J_B.
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    Joe_Bloggs wrote: »
    The Thames could be a Monaco type harbour.
    J_B.



    Or a Pearl type one
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  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    Wheezy wrote: »

    Is this for real?

    Weren't you ever invited to a Labour party "focus" group ?
  • Wheezy_2
    Wheezy_2 Posts: 1,879 Forumite
    dori2o wrote: »
    2 ways of looking at this.

    either it's a jesture/PR stunt as it was last year when they set up the civil servants portal to suggest ideas.

    OR

    Osbourne is so lacking in ability that he has no clue and is looking for us to do his job for him.

    Your 2 options are not mutually exclusive. ;)

    Maybe it's just me, but I expect a government to...erm....govern? The consultation with Joe Public was done last May.
    And I must have missed the consultation when they decided to hike VAT, lower corporations tax, slash university funding, treble tuition fees, etc....
    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Weren't you ever invited to a Labour party "focus" group ?

    No
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