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Budget 2013 live....
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Armed forces to be exempt from changes to progression pay, and accepting pay body recommendations for increases.
Some money from LIBOR fines has gone to military charities and support.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »In the tradition of the last few years, for those at work or unable to access TV/Radio....
Access to TV, but someone put it on Pick TV and it's showing Dog The Bounty Hunter :mad:
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Also adds remit to use unconventional instruments to influence expectations on future path of interest rates.
I wonder if you'll get your purchases of mortgage backed securities?
“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse0 -
Automatic stabilisers to be introduced on some welfare payments in spending round in June.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
Supply side reforms:
Infrastructure spending.... Billions switched from current to capital spending.
£3 bn a year to be added to capital spending for infrastructure“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
Acceots Heseltines idea for funding for enterprise“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
Taking a work call so if someone else can take over !!!!!“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Taking a work call so if someone else can take over !!!!!
No probs Hamish.
Here's my take..........
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Growth forecasts 1.8 in 2014 and 2.3 in 2015
Spin regarding employment continuing to rise.
Notes private sector employment continues to outstrip public sector job losses by 6 to 1.
Unemployment lower than when came to office.
"OBR" still using bullish forecasts to make the figures work. Why oh why don't they take a cautious view?"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
Waiving the climate change levy for certain industry such as ceramics. Uh, why not all? Why is ceramics more important than other forms of manufacture? On the flip-side weren't we told these taxes were essential to 'save the planet' in more bourgeois times? Such small-minded tokenism."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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