The Budget™ 2009

cheets64

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Anybody hoping for anything, cant think of a single budget that was a celebration to get drunk bar single parents and the unemployed, hope tax on alcohol is froze.


Alistair Darling might as well pick figures from a pot full of gunk.
 
Go dvdbunny alias! Go!

Sorry, just can't think of how that was a coherent sentence.

But, if what you're saying is, "Please help me understand how the current budget proposal is enough to help you celebrate in the pub", it's not. The fact that we're able to afford a celebration in the pub is enough reason to celebrate in the pub. IMO, of course.
 
NightSt@lk3r said:
Whats this all about then?
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Well it's all about this person called cheets64 who posts random rubbish on this forum. Me, and a few other idiots, falls fowl of the traps this nutter spreads around, and makes right Royal Buffoons of ourselves ( well I do anyways). So there you are...
 
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Hoping for an extension of the temporary VAT rate cut, it seems to have helped the economy quite well.

Also for a minimum price of an alcohol unit, so no more 3L bottles of white lightning for £2.99.
 
Whatever happens this year will come bite us in the arse further down the road - all these rumoured cuts and cash for old cars, lots more borrowing etc etc will rape our wallets in few years time.

What they give with one hand they take with the other - rather like every other budget that has happened really :)
 
The budget already went through a few weeks ago didn't it? This is just what was in it (as they normally tell us first :p)?
 
It's going to be pretty grim. The annual deficit is going to be almost half of our total debt, pre-brown. I expect lot's of deferred tax rises (for just after the next election, so the tories have to implement them) and more crappy initiatives that don't work, come in over budget and are ignored by the general public. As an upshot, this may well be the last labour budget so maybe there is something to be cheerful about after all.
 
we will all be poorer...

they slid in the defferred fuel duty rise beginning of the month, and fully expect more duty to be added.

fags will go up, (fortunately i've been a non smoker for 3 weeks! :) )

alcohol will go up

VAT will prob be reverted, but may stay @ 15%

NI will go up

Income tax will go up at least a penny in the pound..

imo this is going to the last budget labour give for a while..
 
The budget is just a formal statement of how things have been, how things are, and how things are expected to be with a lot of technical stuff about the country balancing it's books and a little topping of headline grabbing popular nonsense like tax cuts and silly financial initiatives to "help" people.

Given that the world economy is in a dire mess, UK's economy is even worse, in order to balance the books there should be deep painful changes to public spending and taxation.

If there is all credit to the chancellor.

I suspect that given that we must have an election in the next year the chancellor will do a political fudge where there will be a few well targetted gimmicky giveaways, bread and butter increases on the usual taxes, a minimal reduction in public services and a minimal set of tax rises (just so they can pretend to have been "responsible") but really just leaving things as they are now for a year to get us out of the worst of the recession and more importantly force the next governement (almost certainly conservative) to be the brutal bully boys who have to really sort out the mess.

Ho Hum business as usual then - Labour wrecks the economy and Tories repair it and we all suffer.
 
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