Budget 2013
rubertoe
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Well It is upon us.
It looks like we are heading for more cuts and more tax hikes.
itboffin, will be up in arms at alcohol price increases, some of us will be get a bit richer, some of us poorer.
Basically, are we as doomed as an irishman living in Cyprus?
It looks like we are heading for more cuts and more tax hikes.
itboffin, will be up in arms at alcohol price increases, some of us will be get a bit richer, some of us poorer.
Basically, are we as doomed as an irishman living in Cyprus?
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
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Then the chancellor can say his usual stuff about tough times, hard decisions, it's the way forward etc. and claim the high ground.
Next election will be 2014-2015.
Expect a sweet budget this time next year. :twisted:
His biggest problem will be trying to justify the poor economic performance, which is nowhere near his own estimates. In my view it's not the economy that's the problem (lack of growth for many more years is inevitable), it's the fact that no-one can admit that.
An easy day for Balls.
Politely declined, citing a dislike of opinion as news. No doubt they'll find someone equally ill informed to fill 30 seconds.
CAAD12 Disc
Condor Tempo
As other people have pointed out, if the state of Osborne's austerity economy is a success, what would his definition of failure look like?
Two points:
This govt won the election that no-one wanted to win, inheriting a mess.
I sent my passport application off a couple of weeks ago and got the new one back the other day. What does that prove? Nothing.
Most of the "holding passports for an age" stories I have heard relate to people applying for leave to remain in the UK, rather than a simple passport renewal.
I'm in the wrong job
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The UK economy grew 0.2% in 2012. It's not just a prediction, the disaster is happening.
Two points:
1. They've made a bigger mess than they inherited.
2. Show me a Tory MP who doesn't want power.
Few points:
1) You can't judge that till the economic cycle is done
2) People who need ILR are known as colonials.
3) Show me ANY MP who doesn't want power.
And nowt wrong with that. Don't think I'd be interested in voting for someone with no ambition.
Pinnacle Monzonite
Liberal metropolitan, remoaner, traitor, "sympathiser", etc.
I don't understand why there were cuts in the Border Agency. With the cost of passports and visas, this department should easily make a large profit unless it's run very poorly.
But they really didn't inherit a good economy. The UK is a mess due to the debt and liabilities (private and public) accumulated over the previous decade. There is no easy way out of this. Talk of 'growth' is nonsense.
Bingo, welcome to government run organisations
Mostly true but the current government can't keep using this as an excuse, lets not forget that any government is only as good as its opposition. The Tories hardly fought a lot of the actions of the past and during the labour middle term they couldn't even amass enough votes to oppose anything even if they wanted to.
I'm not pro labour by the way, I just think the current government are trying to push the blame for their austerity measures on other doorsteps.
Getting annoyed of watching the budget now (as with most commons affairs), hundreds of grown men hearing a serious subject and the speaker has to keep telling them to pipe down like the unruly children they are. Just shut up and listen!
#Budget2013 FT leader writers verdict: it's a Daily Mail - not an FT budget. Osborne targets Pebble Dash Man, on fuel, beer, home ownership
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I know there are other breweries, but the Pride in my local really is very very good.
Marin Nail Trail
Cotic Solaris
A few pence here and there and some more bank/builder/seller bailouts disguised as help for house buyers.
Up to 600k property. Any kind of buyer, mortgage, remortgage .... doesn't seem to matter.
The borrower will see none of the interest free part.
The country's run by idiots. Blue, yellow, red. Idiots.
Errrmmmm, Cyprus? Greece?
A better comparison for the UK would be with Scandinavian countries - in the EU but outside the Euro zone - or, further afield, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, US etc.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that the previous government stuffed up royally letting the housing & banking sectors go out of control, but oddly enough, Gordon Brown's reaction to the crisis was exactly right.
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
The previous Government did the same and they had 3 full terms. :roll:
PS:- I agree but they are politicians so what do you expect.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
I agree that they're politicians and we can expect little in the way of them taking responsiblity for anything... However, just because the last Government did it, does not make it OK that the current Government now does the same.
Two wrongs don't make a right
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game