double dip recessionlol.. feels like one continuous one to me

BJV

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I totally know exactly what you are talking about. We are a small micro business and just like you we where always just outside and parameters for any sort of grant, aid help well anything. The banks are too frightened to help any small business and the government well hey ????

That said we have juggled, struggled, and re-invested everything and at last it is starting to work out. ( fingers crossed it continues)

It has been two years of hard slog.

We are now at the stage of needing to take more people on but we are holding to see what happens when the dust settles if it ever does. Wish someone would give us a tax break!

cgk1

AliceJenkins wrote: »

What makes me more sick is that this country just tries to punish business and people for working hard.

20% VAT, 50% income tax

It's just not working, scrap the benefit crowd and reduce tax!

50% tax rate? That is paid by less than 350,000 people and represents a tiny sliver of the working population - generally bankers and the like - you aren't trying to argue that they are hard-done by in some way are you? :rotfl:

nickj_2

it's dragging on because no govt has a clue of how to get out of the mess we're in
they can't raise tax because people are skint - unemplyment's rising , no prospect of real growth to create new jobs . the only thing they can come up with is to keep throwing more money (more debt) at the problem

lokiman

As someone who opened a retail shop last December, I have to say that the 'recovery' has been a lot worse than the actual recession. The chap that has owned a shoe shop across the road from me for 30+ years told me in uncertain terms that in the last 11 months, trade has been the worst he has ever seen since he opened.

lilys-dad

TBH this country needs sorting out.

what the country/ gov need to do is shut the doors on imigration (cant spell it) and make the rules for migrant workers tighter, like australia for eg.
Im all for people wanting to make a better life for them selves. I worked in holland for 2 years but i was earning in there country paying there taxes and spending there money in there shops ect not living on the bread line sending over 50% of my earnings back home.
Sending the money out of the country and not investing it back into the country.
for eg If I was earning £1600pm and sending £800 (50%) home thats £9600 pa being sent out of the country.
At the place i was working there was about 100 people working there if every one of them was a migrant worker and was sending £9600 pa home thats £960000 a year not being invested back into the gov.
Im not saying that every person that has come to work in the uk sends money home but i know a few polish people that i have worked with that were sending a large % of the earnings back home evey month.

the best one was a polish girl working in the warehouse and her husband drove a lorry thay had 2 kids that thay were claiming CB working tax credits & child tax credits for she worked with us for over a year and was a perminant employee got pregnant worked untill she was 8 months then went on maternity claimed for everything then packed up and left after a year because thay had paid of there house in poland.

how about this for a radical idear how about cutting fuel duty, i know its one of the govs biggest cash cows, but if for instance if fuel duty at the pump was cut buy 5p p/l and for haulage firms and bus companys the price was cut by 10p p/l the savings in running costs would be passed onto the consumer making goods cheaper meaning people might spend more of the hard earnd cash on goods and re-investing back into the country. supporting and helping our micro/small/medium busineses to expand and employing more people inturn taking the unemployed of benefits so easying the jsa and 18-25yo jobless debt and with there money what will these people do with it yes spend it reinvesting it back into the gov.

the gov needs to stop the huge profits that the oil/gas/electric/banking companys are making while people are struggling to pay there gas/electric bills with the money that people save on there gas/elec they will spend on other luxurys like food reinvesting back into uk plc.

i dont know how to stop the benifits culture TBH when i got made redundent i needed to get a job that payed a min of £18000 pa anything under that i would be better off on the dol. so either make the incentives for working better or make it harder to claim.

well now ive put the world to rights and put my veiws out there im going to give my little girl a bath and get her ready for bed whilst trying to teach her about how to save money because its her and her children that will be paying for this gov and the lasts gov debts.