Autumn Statement - Predictions and results

WillimS

Mrs_Bones wrote: »

After Paris, cutting the front line police budget would not just be politically unpopular it could well have been political suicide and this was an autumn review by a chancellor with both eyes firmly on the top job becoming vacant in a year or two.

Thing is Mrs B they wont cut the police budget, because now they require their services to protect THEM and THEIR families, they aren't bothered about us and OUR security. This is for their families who they know could be potential targets.


So don't think George has gone all soft and concerned about the public and their safety.

schrodie

Graham_Devon wrote: »

He hasn't at all.

He has had his hand forced.

and some of those hands were his own MPs.

pollypenny

Graham_Devon wrote: »

He hasn't at all.

He has had his hand forced.

And employers who did not want to lose their subsidy

Marisco

I missed a lot of it, where is Osborns' famous 12 billion savings on welfare coming from?

schrodie

Marisco wrote: »

I missed a lot of it, where is Osborns' famous 12 billion savings on welfare coming from?

I'll give you a clue ...it's not the blue rinse brigade.

nannytone_2

yjrtr will be a significant saving on tax credits with the rise of NMW ( aka the living wage)

the low paid that rely on tax credits wont see the benefits as it will be given with one hand and taken away with the other

Marisco

schrodie wrote: »

I'll give you a clue ...it's not the blue rinse brigade.

I didn't ask what's not being cut, but what is!

schrodie

Marisco wrote: »

I didn't ask what's not being cut, but what is!

What's left.

bloolagoon

Marisco wrote: »

I didn't ask what's not being cut, but what is!

Nothing - for this year the benefit system will run over cap but be balanced in future years.

JasonLVC

sheffield_lad wrote: »

McDonnell did well far better than Balls but Osbourne will be the man in the papers tomorrow. He had little wriggle room but managed to do a fine bit of manoeuvring.

No tax credit cuts, no police budget cuts.
Well done George! The people will like it.

The people will like it and it is the rare occasion where a Chancellor has listened, got scared of the backlash and dissent and changed his mind altogether.


I don't see his U-turn as total failure, more a case of reassuring to see that occasionally governments do actually bother listening and that MP's do sometimes show their worth.