The Chancellor

wotsthat

StevieJ wrote: »

Probably not saving at all, there must be a point where people on low incomes are contributing to a pension that will cancel out benefits that they would have received anyway.

Yes correct - seems like rather an unambitous way to 'plan' for along and happy retirement though.

I'm not one for quotes but here's two I can think of:

"if you fail to plan, you plan to fail"

"aim for the stars and you might reach the sky"

bubblesbonbon

dealornodeal wrote: »

I think Brown will go down in history, for robbing pensioners of the state pension, and private pensions! Another stealth tax from labour, and labour are supposed to be the party for the working class! I dont think so, and I never have!

It will take a good Conservative Goverment to sort this mess out!

This is perhaps a demonstration of how his mind works

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=412025
:rotfl:

Martinslovechild

As Billy Connolly once said:-

Don't vote - it just encourages them.

How right he was. Does anybody really believe for one moment that George Osborne would reinstate the £100,000,000,000 that Gordy has robbed us all of our pensions?

And anybody who believes that Cameron's so-called 'green' credentials are anything more than a sweetener to allow him to raise future taxes on properties which are not built of synthetic energy-efficient material which produce their own fuel is sadly mistaken...

Brown's most memorable c0ck-up may be the pensions scandal which has become the media darling of the past week (unless you happen to be interested in a bunch of 15 half-wits in a boat), but his biggest legacy in the stupidity stakes certainly has to be PFI - this is something that we'll be paying for for many years to come.

[Tony] Mmmm - a hospital for £100m or £3.5bn anybody?
[Gordy] I think it would be prudent to shell out £50m now, then £3.5bn over the next 30 years - what do you think Tony?.
[Tony] I think you're an idiot Gordon, but let's do it anyway - the buffoons in voter-land won't notice and we can gag the press with some nonsense about Peter Mandelson. Possibly.

betlarge

unless you happen to be interested in a bunch of 15 half-wits in a boat

Charming...

wotsthat

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6561989.stm

The Conservatives are trying to set up a vote of no-confidence in GB - the bandwagon keeps on rolling!

unless you happen to be interested in a bunch of 15 half-wits in a boat

Some of those half-wits have made a small fortune from newspapers and they all received a very nice shiny suit to go home in. It won't be long until at least one of them turns up on Celebrity Big Brother.

Martinslovechild

wotsthat wrote: »

Some of those half-wits have made a small fortune from newspapers... It won't be long until at least one of them turns up on Celebrity Big Brother.

[Commentator] You're watching Channel 4, it's Friday... it's 7 o'clock... it's time for the Faye Turney Show...

[Faye Turney] Welcome to the Faye Turney show, where tonight we'll be talking about...

(switches telly off bored at the prospect of watching 45 minutes of sleep-inducing boredom)

Wait a minute - what's this - special guest star Trevor McDonald.

Now you're talking...

Paul_Herring

wotsthat wrote:

It won't be long until at least one of them turns up on Celebrity Big Brother.

Just the one of them? I wouldn't put it past Endemol to include all 15 of them in some show or other...