The budget
- Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
21 March 2013 17:37221496Why ask me barry if you already know what i think?
you in my head??ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 21 March 2013 18:59221513Good oald George. One penny off beer prices. I'll be thanking you in the pub when the landloard shouts "Anyone got a lighter for the candles?"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21878059
Remember this the next time you think of turning out to vote at the next general election. - 21 March 2013 19:11221518you are worrying unnecessarily philip, in the link it says that the department of energy and climate change are monitoring the situation.
that will put your mind at rest. - 21 March 2013 19:20221523Ha! Yes indeed Howard. "I'm from the Government and I'm here to help" springs to mind.
It has to be said that only a moron would find any, and I do mean any, of Osbourne's ideas yesterday made any sense. Only the diehard blue rinse brigade (and they make up the grass roots of the tory right) believe that any single budget move made sense.
There was not one single thing that one could say would lead to growth.
The tories are banking on a housing boom and have created a public bank Lenin himself would have been proud of which will not only lead to house price inflation but once interest rates go up will lead to mass default.
No announcement to at least try an export led growth strategy.
Who would have thought Neil Kinnock was leading the tories eh?
Oh and most importantly no push to replace the power stations which will close at the end of the month. Only a pipe dream nuclear power station which is unlikely to be built.
If it is it will be even worse value for money than any wind farm built up until now. - 21 March 2013 21:08221536Good to see that at least some people are rehearsing the drill early enough to plan for action:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/need-to-read/2013/03/21/wales-gears-for-big-earth-hour-light-switch-off-91466-33034727/ - 22 March 2013 00:23221546Oh Ho! Ho ho ho ho! Things are much worse than even I imagined. Now that global warming really is affecting us by way of extremely cold weather and snow (remember snow a thing of the past according to global warmists?) it seems that our energy shortfall is worser, much worser:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/21/britain-gas-supply-crisis-idUSL6N0CD88T20130321
I'm not sure if I ever suggested scrapping the climate change act in order to give us at least some chance of saving what is left of our economy. Perhaps Barry's "balanced view" on energy policy could give ua all some guidance and reassurance. - 22 March 2013 00:39221547Well Philip, having read the link's article, my advice is the Irish version of Mahatma Ghandi:
put a pair of woolly socks on, wear a coat in the house, and a hat.
Ma hat ma coat.
Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
Rule Britannia!
Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 22 March 2013 01:05221548Good to see someone's taking this seriously.
- Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
22 March 2013 06:26221553ma foot. - 22 March 2013 10:02221602"Your editorial on the budget (21 March) refers to "obscure changes to pensions, which abolish so-called 'contracting out'". The simple measure of abolishing Serps, the state earnings-related pension, not only condemns our children and grandchildren to penury in old age, it saves the chancellor somewhere between £6bn and £9bn a year and realises the dream of Margaret Thatcher and Norman Fowler of ending state involvement in second pensions for lower earners. It will also instantly seriously reduce the net take-home pay of all public-sector workers by ending contracting out. It is the single biggest fiscal change in the 2013 budget. And you term it "obscure"!
Serps is the ultimate legacy of Barbara Castle and, although downgraded over the years, remains the best pension provision for low-paid earners and especially women who take time out to bring up children. Its abolition is a disgrace. All women should rise up and protest against its abolition - and be supported by all men who care about the future.
Tony Tuck
London"
"Have I got this correct? Not long ago George Osborne took away child benefit from higher-rate taxpayers - that was £20 a week, or £1,000+ a year per child. Now he's giving up to £1,200 back in childcare vouchers. Shall we call it "babyshambles"?
Dick Page
Brighton"
"Your budget calculator tells me I'll be £450 per year better off. I am well-paid and have money left at the end of each month. If this is the worst financial crisis since the 30s, what the hell is the chancellor playing at, not asking me to pay a single penny towards solving our crisis, while stripping ever more out of the pockets of those who can't make it from one pay cheque to the next as it is?
Richard Miller
Whitstable, Kent"
And finally...
"It is fitting that train robber Bruce Reynolds should be buried on the day of George Osborne's banker-friendly budget. As Woody Guthrie put it: As through this world you wander / You meet all kinds of men / Some will rob you with a shotgun / and some with a fountain pen.
Jeremy Knight
Caerphilly, Glamorgan"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/21/budget-hurt-most-vulnerableIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 22 March 2013 10:08221603
- Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
22 March 2013 10:15221607well you heard it all above
interesting the comment from the guy in whitstableALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 22 March 2013 10:19221610From the above (#71)
"Fixing policy to fit the forecasts?
-Cash borrowing still forecast marginally to fall between 2011-12 and 2012-13: because departments expected to underspend significantly
-Achieving (or not) the objective of falling cash borrowing is economically unimportant
-Spending time and effort to try to achieve it could have had real economic costs"Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 22 March 2013 12:40221646courtesy of the independent, a view on our devious vote-catching chancellor.
Households and businesses should brace for painful tax rises after the next election to fill a £9bn hole in public finances, a leading economic think-tank warned today.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) was also scathing about what it described as the last-minute manipulation of departmental budgets ahead of the Budget in order to save George Osborne the embarrassment of having to report that Britain's annual deficit was rising, rather than falling.
It said its analysis revealed that without new tax rises government spending would have to be cut by 18 per cent by 2018, suggesting that after an election it was much more likely that a future government would attempt to find those savings through new taxes rather than through further swingeing spending cuts.
The Chancellor surprised economists when he announced that public borrowing for 2012-13 would come in £100m below the £121bn deficit recorded in 2011-12.
Most analysts had expected the Office for Budget Responsibility to project a deficit some £5bn to £10bn higher than the previous year, given that the public finances had shown a year-on-year deterioration between last April and January. But an examination of the OBR's document revealed that the Chancellor had achieved this unlikely feat by ordering departments to underspend their budgets in the final two months of the year.
The IFS highlighted the contrast between Mr Osborne's behaviour and his words shortly after taking office in June 2010, when he pledged: "From now on we will have to fix the budget to fit the figures, instead of fixing the figures to fit the budget."
Gemma Tetlow, an IFS researcher, added that the manipulation might have created "real economic costs" by diverting officials from more valuable work in delivering public services. - Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
22 March 2013 13:20221650oh dear more bad news for the ozzy campALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 22 March 2013 14:05221658Things are bad enough now but imagine the even worse mess if labour were re-elected. Ten times worse.
Ed Balls is socially and intellectually inept, as is his master Milliband, but crucially fiscally He fails on every measure.
Anyone who believes that Ed Balls has the answer needs their head tested. - 22 March 2013 14:07221660Head tested and committed to an asylum Philip.
- Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
22 March 2013 18:11221711well barryw balls not up to it
nor is ossy
not looking good thenALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 22 March 2013 18:17221712Nope it's far worse than that - Fitch has just put the UK on negative watch.
Perhaps We're not building enough wind farms. - 22 March 2013 18:40221716