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Budget 2011: Key points..
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Graham_Devon wrote: »99.99m now.
They filling one outside my office, and what a noise, I can't hear the budget!!
It costs 0.01m just to fill in a pothole? Wow, the public sector has to get more efficient. This is a wake up call.
EDIT: on a more serious note, is there any explanation in the budget of how we are going to pay for this new war?“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »They talking on five live now. "Some great proposals to help FTB, and hopefully house prices will rise."
I suppose it's good news for those FTBs that buy their home before the house price rises.
Whoever said that........ no, I won't type it.30 Year Challenge : To be 30 years older. Equity : Don't know, don't care much. Savings : That's asking for ridicule.0 -
mocking you're stupidity and your ignorance - yes
More accurately: clumsily attempting to score cheap hits, failing, and looking pretty pathetic in the process.
There is nothing overly controversial about Graham's suggestion that the state shouldn't be buying houses for people. Protecting people from losing their home can be done far more cost effectively, and in ways that don't discourage many from returning to work.Having a signature removed for mentioning the removal of a previous signature. Blackwhite bellyfeel double plus good...0 -
You can download the whole thing here:
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/2011budget_documents.htm0 -
Do you really think that your ability to pay a mortgage has an influence on the gene pool? I must have missed that one in the 'Origin of Species'.
If everything came down to an individual's 'worth' at any single point in time we would have been extinct long ago.
This may be a little controversial, but I often wondered if in a country like the UK, is there a link between inherited genetic factors and income?0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »250 million for FTB shared equity scheme. 10,000 to be helped. Funded from bank levy.
This is not good news for you is it Hamish?
You will not like all these extra homes being built.
You really will not like commercial properties now being easy to turn into residential with no planning permission needed.
Looks like supply of housing going up and prices coming down even more now.0 -
novazombie wrote: »This is not good news for you is it Hamish?
Maybe Hamish is showing his generous side. Maybe we got him all wrong.30 Year Challenge : To be 30 years older. Equity : Don't know, don't care much. Savings : That's asking for ridicule.0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Great budget actually.
Agreed, especially like the Enterprise zones, they're not all oop North, I believe there is to be one in Bristol and also one near me in the Black Country.
Great idea.
Also didn't he mention something about proper apprenticeships for young people? If so, another great idea.
Well done George.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
Member #10 of £2 savers club
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
Maybe Hamish is showing his generous side. Maybe we got him all wrong.
Nah he will still keep on about not enough houses available as if that is the only thing driving prices.
Only trouble is supply is going to increase a lot from now on. Huge numbers of commercial properties are going to be turned into residential and this new scheme will encourage huge numbers of new builds.0 -
Public Sector Net Borrowing between 2011-12 and 2014-15 has increased by £43bn (£6bn+£12bn+£10bn+£15bn) since the emergency budget!
So much for austerity Britain. Call in the IMF!
Now the wonks say this is because of higher inflation but there is no reason benefits should rise more than wages. If you want to share the pain and be fair why should those getting £25k in benefits be protected while someone on £20K in work be hammered? If you want 'growth' then incentivising sloth by giving non-workers a bigger pay rise than workers is ludicrous."The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, 1848.0
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