[arista]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/b...2014-live.html


http://news.sky.com/story/1227992/wh...sbornes-budget


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No Loose Women today - shocker


[I’ve already done my own share of speculating, guessing at a much larger
than expected increase in the personal allowance, going well beyond the
expected £10,500: a big tax cut for the low paid, and one that the Lib Dems
could sign off on too. (The Lib Dems have been very well behaved over his
Budget, which makes some people wonder what they’ve got out of this.)
But here’s another idea: National Insurance, which we all know is just
income tax by another name.
There are any number of options for change here,
not least the cut in employer NICS proposed by Policy Exchange.]

From the Telegraph

[arista]

Live Now

[Cherie]

Anything good apart from the increase in personal allowances?

[Vicky.]

DIdnt know that aborting babies simply for being female was a big thing in this country

[arista]

[Chancellor announced 1p cut in duty on each pint of beer
and a freeze on cider and spirits
Bingo tax halved to 10% with promise
of bigger prizes for players
Chancellor promised help for savers in his penultimate
Budget before the election next year
Cash and stocks ISAs to be merged
into single New ISA with annual
tax-free savings limit of £15,000 from July 1
George Osborne promised a Budget
to produce a 'resilient economy'
and said Britain still does not save enough
Growth forecasts upgraded as economic
recovery gains momentum
Vowed to help hard working people
save more of what they make
Osborne promised families extra
help after coming through the recession
Working parents offered £2,000
tax break on cost of childcare
Vowed to cut taxes and boost
manufacturing during 55-minute statement
£1 coin scrapped: New version will
be shaped like old threepenny bit
New promises will be funded by
crackdown on tax evasion raising billions
More spending cuts on welfare
as total bill for the taxpayer is capped]


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/budg...#ixzz2wPzrstnT

[Cherie]

George Osborne today delivered a 'working people's Budget' with cuts in the price of beer and a lower tax on bingo halls.


well that's great. Nothing us workers like more than a game of bingo while enjoying a pint of beer that costs lp less.

[the truth]

isa limits up to 15K ? whats the point ? theres more interest growth if you let it grow in manure

[LeatherTrumpet]

he is riding a cycle that he did not buy but the other party cant catch

"see the wind in his hair"

[the truth]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

he is riding a cycle that he did not buy but the other party cant catch

"see the wind in his hair"

all that with 20% Vodka And Tonic

[MTVN]

Seems like an odd budget, more like a pension announcement than a full budget someone was saying

Are cigarettes going up again?

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Seems like an odd budget, more like a pension announcement than a full budget someone was saying

Are cigarettes going up again?

yes.

It is a very clever budget as it is aimed at the retired or those about to, all those people who actually go out and vote.

[the truth]

Originally Posted by Cherie

yes.

It is a very clever budget as it is aimed at the retired or those about to, all those people who actually go out and vote.

pretty dull budget , they ducked vat too

[arista]

Live on BBCNewsHD
at Parliament on the Green
Clegg had to do a runner
as a Protester demanded answers on pedophiles in the UK
The Reporter Norman smith tried to push the bloke away
but he was to pushy so they cut that report off.


No sure why he picked on Clegg
he is only the Deputy.

[arista]

Nice of Jack to call this a Good Day news
on another thread.


Capitalism Works

[Marsh.]

Lower tax on the bingo?

Ooh, life's looking brighter already.

[Kizzy]

Yep get everyone addicted to gambling and in debt.. a nation in debt is a subdued nation, easier to handle.

[smeagol]

one of the worst budgets by the worst government of all time.
it does nothing for the average person of this country or the poor. disgusting budget

pensioners who save wtf. yes feed the rich even more. what about the real pensioners who have no money. who struggle and now are paying even more. feed the rich kill the poor camerons cull is working fine.

need this government out

[Livia]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Seems like an odd budget, more like a pension announcement than a full budget someone was saying

Are cigarettes going up again?

Trying to win back the outraged blue-rinse brigade still smarting over gay marriage I guess.

[LeatherTrumpet]

by blue rinse brigade

do u mean gay pride?

[joeysteele]

If this was his first budget, it would make fairly good reading, after almost 4 years in power it is one that really represents failure all through these last 4 years.
I am totally dismayed at the freezing of duty on spirits and cider, alcohol causes great harm and I find it beyond belief that he is leaving all that be,

Whatever savings as to tax etc; well they dont come anywhere near the lost 2 to 3 hours a week that a growing number of workers are finding in their work contracts.
The supermarket where I shop, one of the staff mentioned that 'all' workers are seeing a minimum 2 hours reduction as to their working hours.
A lost income of around £20 every week from now.

It would also seem that it is believed all pensioners have money to invest in ISA's and are pretty well off in the main.
That may be the case for some people of pension age that George Osborne takes notice of but it is not representative of the people of pension age that I come across.

A 'hot air' budget that is all about in the main failed policies, unfortunately failed policies he intends to stick with.
Not only stick with but to then expect from voters another 4 to 5 years to do all he said his policies would do from 2010 by 2015.
The deficit nowhere near his target of being all but cleared and maybe even not even halved by the time of the election
.
he derided Labour's plan not to make cuts in the first year and then to halve the deficit over 4 years as unambitious and a target that would be disastrous for the Country.
He took over at a time when the recovery was in place and growth was 1.1% in the last quarter of Labour's policies.
It is now over 2% when really it should be at the very least be nearer 5%.
What a shambles and what a nerve to expect voters to let him do a re-run of the 2010 election because his ideas have come nowhere near he said things 'had' to be by 2015.
No prizes for failure and failure is all this budget represents as to this Chancellor and Govt:

This lot are so out of touch with 'ordinary' people and most voters in this Country it is unbelievable.

Thank goodness for Ed Miliband's bit of light relief,when he was on about Etonians being in the cabinet, then looked for Michael Gove in relation to that comment as Gove had indicated his view on it.
On finding him saying he was hiding but then added it looked like he had been sent to the naughty step.
When that is the only highlight of budget day in the main, it shows how bad a Chancellor we have.

For me this is a at best only a fair,(not in the just sense), budget that really does not a thing for ordinary people squeezed by the cost of living rising so far ahead of everything else over the last 3 years particularly.

A school report on this would likely say 'this Govt has to do much better than this', since however this Govt is determined to stick with the failing policies of the last 4 years then the only thing a report could say about them is 'this Govt cannot and will not do much better'.

[Vicky.]

Yeah does seem like hes trying to win back the pensioner vote...

1p less for beer...fantastic. Will have to go out and drink 100 pints when I have this baby so I can save a WHOLE POUND. Might get it swapped to one of those new ones that are going to end up costing ~20m to use too

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Yeah does seem like hes trying to win back the pensioner vote...

1p less for beer...fantastic. Will have to go out and drink 100 pints when I have this baby so I can save a WHOLE POUND. Might get it swapped to one of those new ones that are going to end up costing ~20m to use too

Well exactly - what a pointless saving. Even a hardcore binging Uni student is going to be saving AT MOST 40p a week. You can find more than that by scanning the pavement on the walk into town :S.

Anyone who is drinking at all responsibly is going to be saving less than a couple of pounds a year. What a joke. Unless the aim is to encourage seriously big-time alcoholism...

[MTVN]

Isn't the penny off a pint aimed at helping pubs not consumers? I mean the pubs aren't going to pass the saving on to the consumer and make a £3.30 pint or whatever £3.29 instead, it'll just mean an extra penny goes to the pub and not to the taxman

Think there was a penny off the price of a pint in the last budget as well, I'm all for anything that might help pubs stay in business

[smeagol]

how high do cigs need to go. its seriously to high now. how about tax the fatties instead they are the biggest cause not drinking or smoking.

1p of a pint but will cost you a quid to travel to the pub cause your local closed down .
bit like the pensioner thing though. most live hand to mouth. yet that rewards the rich ones. meanwhile the poor ones just got poorer .

joke budget by joke government

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Isn't the penny off a pint aimed at helping pubs not consumers? I mean the pubs aren't going to pass the saving on to the consumer and make a £3.30 pint or whatever £3.29 instead, it'll just mean an extra penny goes to the pub and not to the taxman

Think there was a penny off the price of a pint in the last budget as well, I'm all for anything that might help pubs stay in business

A penny a pint wont make a difference to a pubs profits in reality

I used to work in a busy bar, and even on great nights we sold probably about 500 pints or so. So..£5 extra profit. Great £35 extra a week. I know they say every little helps, but THAT little doesnt.

Best thing to get pubs back in business is let them have smoking rooms or something too. Gavs dads bar went under after the smoking ban as through the day his main customers were little old men who came out in taxis from their house round the corner.. for whiskeys and a smoke..who were too frail and ill really to stand outside every half hour for a puff