Budget 2010

Waste? Look at NHS IT system.

Actually I'd just put the power with the IT folk and not with managers - that's the problem with every government IT initiative though. It's run by managers who don't fully grasp what they're aiming for.

My experience of them anyway!
 
government finding new ways to tax me more. nothing new here, move a long.

on of these days i just want the budget to read:

VAT Abolished
Income tax reduced to 5%
council tax abolish

:D

pointless anyway, the government can never pay back the debt to the BOE as there is not enough money in the system to pay it back as they get the money from the BOE in the first place. Stupid skam.
 
+9

Cameron is great when he's on fire, but he has not been doing that enough recently, that's why the polls have been so bad recently. I hope he picks it up when the election is called

I wasn't terribly impressed. Yes, he put a grand ranting attack together, and it was fun to watch and all but wasn't this the same man who promised "an end to Punch and Judy politics"? It was all sound and fury with precious little content.
 
Last edited:
I wasn't terribly impressed. Yes, he put a grand ranting attack together, and it was fun to watch and all but wasn't this the same man who promised "an end to Punch and Judy politics". It was all sound and fury with precious little content.

That's pretty much how I see all politicians at the moment, it's kids arguing in the playground. Not impressed.

They should be cutting spending though, it's daft not to.
 
Alcohol is responsible for increased policing and health costs.

No, alcohol is NOT responsible for that.
Problems within the society are responsible for that.

Me, and my friends, have never required any policing or health care due to drinking relatively responsibly.

It is the same as gun laws, the cause of murder are not the guns but the people/society - you need to tackle that rather than just penalising the people who do no harm.
 
Like the fact that the government are finally giving house buyers an incentive to buying a house without stamp duty..good move.
 
Wind is not a long term solution, and will never generate 15% of our needs and is very inefficient as far as land use goes.
Within a decade we will be able to shift the majority of oil based energy consumption (ie cars) onto things that depend on electricity. This means that we will need far more capacity, that only nuclear or coal can provide.

Wind is only a stop gap measure due to the (relatively) fast building speeds of the turbines - it will help avoid the blackouts that are forecast until we have nuclear online (the forecast was for 2012, but the recession has probably pushed that back to 2015-18 at least).
If we were to build nuclear NOW, we would have them online by 2015/18 - but we aren't (see reply below).



All I have heard from this government about nuclear is that "we will built it ... at some point", there have been no contracts negotiated or given out, no sites confirmed and no expected completion dates.
Hell, we haven't even planned anything yet - all they have done is talk, talk and talk some more.

By now, in the 13 years of Labour, with 10 years of "boom", we should have multiple new nuclear stations in this country - instead we have no new ones, and no new ones for at least 20 years (the major component manufacturers have their order books filled for over 10 years by the Chinese and Indians)

Irrational claptrap.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Scotland

At least Scotland has the ability to do it right. :)

I also agree with the non proliferation of Nuclear powerstations and waste.
 
Last edited:
I am glad of them moving the pen pushers out of London. No need for so many offices and agencies to be in there in this day and age.
 
So, the stamp duty cut will cost £520m from 2010 - 2012, whilst rising the rate on homes costing more than £1million will raise £160m in said years...

Glad to see that we are plugging the deficit hole :rollseyes:
 
Back
Top Bottom