Budget 2015 - A budget of no consequence.

patman99

Tomorrow is budget day. Every year this day happens, however, this time it happens within 3 months of a General Election.

As such, it will be used to bribe voters into voting for the Conservative Party. Of course, a few month along, there will be the autumn budget which will reverse all the vote-buying decisions made in the main budget.

The main message must be - Nothing of real worth will done in this smoke-screen pre-election budget. All the proper budgetting will come after the election.

CLAPTON

patman99 wrote: »

Tomorrow is budget day. Every year this day happens, however, this time it happens within 3 months of a General Election.

As such, it will be used to bribe voters into voting for the Conservative Party. Of course, a few month along, there will be the autumn budget which will reverse all the vote-buying decisions made in the main budget.

The main message must be - Nothing of real worth will done in this smoke-screen pre-election budget. All the proper budgetting will come after the election.

So, just like most budgets ?

most are broadly fiscally neutral

[Deleted User]

the budget comes less than 50 days before the election,and very little of it will see the light of day before parliament rises,it seems he has £6billion to spare having decided he will have a £70 bliion deficit next year not 76,he will probably outline what he plans to do with that "spare"dose should the tories be re-elected(surely he should use it to pay off debt according to his mantra for the last 5 years)
i think we may see 2 things twice this year,two elections and two budgets

Thrugelmir

patman99 wrote: »

Tomorrow is budget day. Every year this day happens, however, this time it happens within 3 months of a General Election.

As such, it will be used to bribe voters into voting for the Conservative Party. Of course, a few month along, there will be the autumn budget which will reverse all the vote-buying decisions made in the main budget.

The main message must be - Nothing of real worth will done in this smoke-screen pre-election budget. All the proper budgetting will come after the election.

There's far more to the budget than the headlines that make the media. Brown mastered the art of hiding the bad news in the small print. With changes that wouldn't impact until a year later. Such as changes in National Insurance rates. Changes to taxation rules get wrapped up in the budget as well.

Be interesting to see if there's announcement on a potential "Google " tax on multi national companies.

At best the budget will be fiscally neutral.

Loughton_Monkey

We all know such a budget is pure political posturing, of no great consequence to most people, and it would be this way whichever party is in power.

Try to think of it as entertainment. Now that Jeremy is off the television, we need a bit of 'near the knuckle' sarcasm, wit, and haranguing. Ballsie Boy will probably give us the most laughs with fatuous comments.

I'm sure Georgie boy reads this forum, so I'll offer him a few tips....

• Double the road tax on pink minibusses. [To punish Labour]
• Follow up the bedroom tax with a 'Kitchen Tax'. [To punish Miliband]
• Put an emergency extra £5 per bottle duty on Scotch. Money to be put directly into the English Health Service. [To punish the disloyal Scots]
• A 'Help to Buy 3' scheme especially for young people. All 18 to 25 year olds to have a 5% a week compulsory salary deduction which will go into a 'Granny Bond' type fund with 1% interest tax free. Money can only be taken out at age 55 - by which time it is hoped they can take out their entire pension and have enough for a house deposit. [To try and buy a few votes from the young people in case any of them vote]

vivatifosi

I will miss the Sky News budget rap once this is over...
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg4TyYoOUuQ

purch

They should get Fatty Lawson to deliver all the Budget speeches.

He was pure theatre, especially when it came to the "reveal" at the end.

All these years of boring Brown, Darling and Ossie has put me off watching :eek:

chucknorris

There are predications of abolishing tax on savings interest, although I'm not sure if they are predicting that it will only apply to the 20% tax band or not?

Jonbvn

purch wrote: »

They should get Fatty Lawson to deliver all the Budget speeches.

You mean Nigella?

westernpromise

patman99 wrote: »

Tomorrow is budget day. Every year this day happens, however, this time it happens within 3 months of a General Election.

As such, it will be used to bribe voters into voting for the Conservative Party. Of course, a few month along, there will be the autumn budget which will reverse all the vote-buying decisions made in the main budget.

The main message must be - Nothing of real worth will done in this smoke-screen pre-election budget. All the proper budgetting will come after the election.

How wistfully I long for the golden days of Labour budgets, which were always honest and free from cynicism. If only all politicians had the personal integrity of Tony Blair!

westernpromise

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

• Put an emergency extra £5 per bottle duty on Scotch. Money to be put directly into the English Health Service. [To punish the disloyal Scots]

That's actually a very good idea. According to al-BBC, 83.3 million bottles of Scotch were sold in the UK last year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-31854843

If the emergency duty were £12 a bottle, rather than £5, it would raise roughly what Miliband's mansion tax is supposedly going to raise. It would also raise it precisely from people who cost the NHS money.

A similar tax on deep fried Mars bars, and on drinking Special Brew at 8 in the morning in London shop doorways while shouting at yourself, would be a good Scottish levy idea too.