Making the news today....

[Steve Bullman]

1 hour ago, Squaredy said:

No comments about the budget anyone?   I suppose it was already fairly well known so no major surprises today?

As you say; was expected. If anything I’m relieved she didn’t rook us more

[Johnsond]

46 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

As you say; was expected. If anything I’m relieved she didn’t rook us more

Death by a thousand cuts Steve. Up here in Aberdeenshire jobs are being lost on a daily basis, the UK sector is being strangled by a tax brought in when oil was $129 a barrel, it’s now around $60 that plus a ban on new drilling. Sheer lunacy, especially seeing as we are importing more and more from overseas.  She took money off those whose votes she cares nothing about, savers ,farmers, the self employed, small businesses, entrepreneurs were all ignored. The huge corporations were barely scratched. 
What you saw was an individual and government totally out of their depth with zero vision or idea of how to sort this out, Just the classic labour socialist fantasy tax the rich ( or everyone for that matter) money tree mentality. 
The biggest concern now has to be how much damage can these fools do before they are voted out. 

What Rachel Reeves hopes you didn’t notice in the Budget

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The Chancellor's Budget leaves all of us collectively worse off by billions

 

Edited November 26 by Johnsond

[Oldfeller]

1 hour ago, Squaredy said:

No comments about the budget anyone?   I suppose it was already fairly well known so no major surprises today?

The opposition had plenty to say about it,,,

 

[daveatdave]

23 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Death by a thousand cuts Steve. Up here in Aberdeenshire jobs are being lost on a daily basis, the UK sector is being strangled by a tax brought in when oil was $129 a barrel, it’s now around $60 that plus a ban on new drilling. Sheer lunacy, especially seeing as we are importing more and more from overseas.  She took money off those whose votes she cares nothing about, savers ,farmers, the self employed, small businesses, entrepreneurs were all ignored. The huge corporations were barely scratched. 
What you saw was an individual and government totally out of their depth with zero vision or idea of how to sort this out, Just the classic labour socialist fantasy tax the rich ( or everyone for that matter) money tree mentality. 
The biggest concern now has to be how much damage can these fools do before they are voted out. 

What Rachel Reeves hopes you didn’t notice in the Budget

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The Chancellor's Budget leaves all of us collectively worse off by billions

 

you forgot to mention pensioners. those on basic pensions will be paying tax in another year   

[AHPP]

 

A fair bit of sick came up when I read this bit. 

[Oldfeller]

[Johnsond]

7 hours ago, AHPP said:

 

A fair bit of sick came up when I read this bit. 

A state sponsored scheme to encourage citizens to inform on each other. 
The Stasi would most definitely approve. 

[Oldfeller]

4 hours ago, Johnsond said:

A state sponsored scheme to encourage citizens to inform on each other. 
The Stasi would most definitely approve. 

could backfire on them,,, they are already turning on each other, this could prove to be their ultimate demise.

[Steven P]

4 hours ago, Johnsond said:

A state sponsored scheme to encourage citizens to inform on each other. 
The Stasi would most definitely approve. 

 

Of course, this was always there, even under the Tory government that you voted for. Just an increase in the cash 'reward'.

[Steven P]

Done the sums last night, broadly speaking they'll be taking the same tax from me as before.

 

What did amuse me though is that -even before she had stood up to speak- the Daily Mails calculator was headlined by "How much MORE will YOU pay"... not saying they are biased but... in their actual calculator when I looked they (and the Telegraph) only asked about what will put your tax bill up so any gains from it were not included "Do you drive an electric car" but forgetting fuel (petrol) duty being frozen as an example.

 

Bit of a bland budget to be honest, nothing to get too wound up about, and nothing to get excited about either.