Weds 15/3/23 Chancellor Jeremy Hunt Budget
 

SkyNews Text:
[Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt are set to clash
with Conservative backbench MPs
over their tax plans for the 2023 budget.]

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This Weds

Reports on all media
that Pre-Paid Meters will
stop costing more

Thats a good move
so long it is brought in fast.

Good move

SkyNews Text :
[Jeremy Hunt is preparing to boost the
tax-free allowance for pensions by more
than half a million pounds as he battles the
wave of early retirement that has squeezed growth,
The Daily Telegraph reports.]

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Is he gonna announce the date when the next Cost of Living will be paid?

I dont think there is a specific date Kate, this is all I can find on the net

When you’ll be paid
If you’re entitled, you will get:

£301 paid during spring 2023 for most people
£300 paid during autumn 2023 for most people
£299 paid during spring 2024 for most people

It will be interesting to see what he sets out.

Good to see he's maybe woken up to what Labour have been on about for a good while now, re childcare costs.
Let's hope his finer detail on that can be effective for those who need it.

What he does announce today however is likely not to really impact on those now in more desperate situations due to the cost of living rising by ridiculous levels over just the last year.
Even apparently those who got the maximum of help are now struggling still.

So if he's now going to remove that help, things can only get worse for those already in a worrying financial state.
Because they are still stuck with around double or more in the last year, of just gas and electricity costs.

That's before they start on the greater increase of inflation on food prices.
Which is way far more than just 10/11%.

This is so wrong

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The same thing until 3PM

Politics Live starts with
3 BBC journalists

Pathetic

They have never done this before
Cheapskate bastards

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Not the most horrible budget ever constructed.

lol @ "the mess we inherited thirteen years ago" ...

Potholes increase


But nothing on Sewers in Rivers

A lot of hot air and fudging this last half hour.

Not much of real truth but hopefully some of his measures will have some effect.
That remains to be seen.

Not a fully appropriate budget really for this uncertain time.
If he goes on much longer he'll put me to sleep.
Which may be the only good thing from his load of hot air presentation.

they are sending the long term sick and disabled back to work apparently every job vacancy is a job that can be done from home via Teams :crazy:

30 hours free childcare for children over 9 months wont kick in fully until Sept 2025 :laugh:

Starmer goes Panto
again

The main elements in the Budget include:

[Up to 30 hours of free childcare for
youngsters aged over nine months if both
parents each earn less than £100,000.
Changes to Universal Credit to encourage
people to get back to work,
with more support for childcare;
The lifetime allowance on pensions
has been abolished altogether,
after complaints that many middle-earners were
finding it was not worth them working due
to tax penalties;
The energy bills guarantee is being extended
for another three months,
with prices likely to be lower by June anyway;
Fuel duty is being frozen for a
13th year in a row, and the
'temporary' 5p a litre cut is being maintained;
Alcohol duty will rise in line with inflation
from August and reforms to base the levy
on strength will go ahead - with bottles
of wine set to go up by around 45p,
but other drinks getting cheaper;
A 'Brexit pubs guarantee' will
see the duty on draught products in pubs
up to 11p lower than the duty in
supermarkets from August;
Businesses will be able to offset all
capital spending on IT and other equipment
against taxable profits for at least the
next three years;
Nuclear power will be classed as
'environmentally sustainable' which will give it
access to the same investment incentives
as renewable energy;
Defence spending is being increased by
£11billion over the next five years amid
the fallout from the Ukraine war;
There will be a £200million fund to tackle potholes
after a Daily Mail campaign.]


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A long winded non event.

Not really what people need in their lives at this time.

To be fair though, most budget speeches are disappointing.
Hunt however, near sent me to sleep.

He said finally at one point so I thought oh great.
Then over half an hour later he was still going on.

Most things are to take effect too far off in the future, there was very little for NOW.

Valid points Joey
by tomorrow some good points
should be on all media.

But in general not enough Real Time Investment

2023 Budget: Key points:


The UK economy was 'proving the doubters wrong'
Forecasts suggest the UK will avoid falling
into previously expected recession this year.

OBR says inflation expected to fall from 10.7
per cent in December 2022 to 2.9 per cent by
the end of 2023.

Energy Price Guarantee to remain at £2,500
for three more months.

Charges for pre-payment meters will be brought
into line with those paid by direct debit customers.

Brexit Pubs Guarantee to keep alcohol levy lower
for draught drinks than supermarket cans and bottles.

But the cost of a bottle of wine will go up 45p.
Fuel duty will remain frozen for another 12 months.]

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I heard a Tory say if you're on Universal Credit and you're offered a job and you don't take it, then you will get sanctioned.

I thought people who were job seeking were looking for a job. I didn't know employers were offering jobs. Quite bizarre. How does it work? I am confused.

I was on the dole about 15 years ago, and I had to apply for jobs I wanted. But now it seems claimants are offered jobs????? Is this true?????????

Weird.

I think they can offer you jobs that if they fit your skillset people would have to take, I am not against this per se as long as its a job that you can either be trained into or have some experience in and it is within the persons capabilities and the pay is decent, and it is not used as a way to get cheap labour

Yes, but if they're offering a job, then surely the employer needs to know who they're hiring???:joker:

The employer has to be assured this person being 'offered the job' will fit in and actually do the job.

The way the MP said it was as if there are loads of jobs being offered without interview or even the employer knowing who they're hiring.:joker:

I think a better way of putting it is they show you jobs that yes, like you said, fit your skillset, and it's up to you to go to the interview and try to get the job.:hehe:

So no actual 'start on Monday' jobs are being offered:hee:

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PM Sunak just had a 40mins meeting
with the 1922 Committee
MP's leaving it were all jolly.

Maybe it means like, if someone interviews for a retail job or something lol just to meet their job-seeking obligations but tries to not get it on purpose because they don't really want it (retail), but the employer offers them a job anyway? If they turn down a job they're recorded as having applied and interviewed for, it would look fishy.