Bus passes going?

iris

We have bus passes, but don't use them very often, due to living in a village with no buses.

However, when we go on holiday we use the Park and Ride system and use our bus passes to get into the city. This eliminates the cost of parking and also the hassle of parking.

Mrs_Money

This subject has raised its head again due to the recent publication of a report by The Social Market Foundation (some kind of think tank) which is advising on how the government can save £15 billion.
Unfortunately, other suggestions in the report include putting a cap of £15000 savings in our ISAs!

Sweey_as_a_nut

his subject has raised its head again due to the recent publication of a report by The Social Market Foundation (some kind of think tank) which is advising on how the government can save £15 billion.
Unfortunately, other suggestions in the report include putting a cap of £15000 savings in our ISAs!

Never mind Mrs Money I'm sure you will have a lot of sympathy.

Rupert_Bear

I live in a city and never use the bus pass. The reason is I have a byke and car and legs. I walk or byke a lot. The bus pass is a great idea for older people but for people who live in towns I feel it can make them lazy. Its important as you get older to get exercise and not to rely too much on cars and buses.

2010

Sweey_as_a_nut wrote: »

his subject has raised its head again due to the recent publication of a report by The Social Market Foundation (some kind of think tank) which is advising on how the government can save £15 billion.
Unfortunately, other suggestions in the report include putting a cap of £15000 savings in our ISAs!

Well the easiest and most obvious way to save £15 billion is to cut foreign aid.


£8 billion now (rising to £11.4 billion in 2015) is quite a lot of money and that in these dark economic times the very last thing our government ought to be doing is hosing down ungrateful foreigners with cash we haven't got.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100088432/cameron-should-scrap-the-foreign-aid-budget-not-increase-it/

Mrs_Money

Sweey_as_a_nut wrote: »

his subject has raised its head again due to the recent publication of a report by The Social Market Foundation (some kind of think tank) which is advising on how the government can save £15 billion.
Unfortunately, other suggestions in the report include putting a cap of £15000 savings in our ISAs!

Never mind Mrs Money I'm sure you will have a lot of sympathy.

I'm not wanting sympathy - I don't understand your point.
Perhaps the real point here is that many people no longer believe in the reliability of private pensions and have often been advised to use their life savings in an ISA as a reliable alternative in their retirement years.
If the government wants people to save for their old age a cap like this would be a retrograde step.

2010

Mrs_Money wrote: »

If the government wants people to save for their old age a cap like this would be a retrograde step.

Not long ago the government did want us all to save and start a pension and even pay more into an existing one, but with the dire state of the nation, thanks entirely to Labour, the main chant coming from them and the BoE is to spend, spend, spend to stop us falling, once again into recession.

Talk about encouraging debt!

Sweey_as_a_nut

2010, is this the year you were born, it must be because it seemed to have gone over your head that it was Margaret Thatcher who was the person who took her finger out of the dike and allowed the banks to manage their affairs as they saw fit. and that was a system that served us well from 1929 until 1986

Labour also helped to stoke the fire. With the full backing of the Conservatives.

2010

Sweey_as_a_nut wrote: »

2010, is this the year you were born, it must be because it seemed to have gone over your head that it was Margaret Thatcher who was the person who took her finger out of the dike and allowed the banks to manage their affairs as they saw fit. and that was a system that served us well from 1929 until 1986

Labour also helped to stoke the fire. With the full backing of the Conservatives.

You`re are going off topic, BUT

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Labour were elected in 1997 and were in charge when the biggest banking crisis in history occurred, 11 years later in 2008, on their watch, only they weren`t exactly watching just being cosy to the city for all the tax they could rake in and as it turns out

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waste.

And now we all have to pay for their drastic mistakes.
End of history lesson for you "sweetie", now back on topic.

georgiesmum

dzug1 wrote: »

There won't - the services will be withdrawn as well.

And a lot more people out of work.
Why are we begrudged the passes so much? :mad: I have never met a pensioner yet who begrudged the young their child tax credits and family allowances, their working tax credits, and other benefits although we never had anything like these. Apart from family allowance that wasn't even paid for the first child. We are among the lowest paid pensioners in Europe, and most of us have worked in excess of 50 years. I worked till i was 67 and dh till 75. Our pass is our lifeline.
Big mistake if the goverment do away with this. There are a lot of us and we do have the vote. (and long memories )