How do you envisage the results of general election effecting YOU ?

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For me, i'm really not sure whats going to happen at work. I work for a healthcare software and hardware supplier. We supply the software that holds your medical records.

We also supply servers, both on hosted systems on our premises (offering a totally managed service) or we supply servers for GP's to keep on site and take care of their own service.

Either way, a lot of our fudning comes from the Connecting for Health department.

Now when the tories start talking about google and and microsoft holding patient records ... they could be doing us out of a job. (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6644919.ece)

Granted a lot of talk appears to be about the SCR system - summary care records. This is a copy of the main important parts of your medical record that is held on a central government server. But the Lib dems are contemplating axing the whole department alltogether (http://www.smarthealthcare.com/liberal-democrats-connecting-for-health-scrapped-04feb10)

Where does that leave us and all the kit that has been funded by connecting 4 health if somebody comes in and pulls the plug on the department ?

Nobody is quite sure, but one things for sure, our company employes hundreads of people, and we'll all be watching very intently come next thursday.

How do you envisage the results of the election changing your life ?
 
I want to move back up north for personal reasons, if the LibDems and/or Labour get in then I reckon that will be possible. If the Conservatives get in then I don't think there will be any jobs - I'll probably leave the country instead.
 
It wont, much. My tax burden may rise, it may fall, slightly. I work for a medium sized IT consultancy firm with a huge variety of customers, i cant see that side being affected.
 
I don't think it is going to make that much difference. Labour's fiscal irresponsibility has ensured that whoever gets in is going to have to make large scale cuts in spending, and probably raise taxes somewhere.

It won't be their fault, whoever is in power, it will be the natural collection of the fallacy of an economy that labour created.
 
If Labour get in, I envisage crippling taxes that will make it more difficult for me to save and progress in life. A double dip recession will be a certainty in 2011 and i might lose my job outright this time (god knows how i managed to hang in there so far)

A hung parliament will put this off for a while but the pain will be twice as worse when it comes

If Tories get in it will still be no bed of roses but the pain will be reduced to levels i can cope with. A married tax allowance will help me and my gf when we plan to marry in 2012, no NI increase and less draconian laws will mean i my civil liberties will be protected until the next Labour Government
 
whoever gets in I will be a lot poorer the next 5-10 years.
I am thinking of downsizing my house, well a move to a more rural area as well so hopefully it will offset the big jump in income tax we are going to get.
 
I dont know, I own a care home and a home care company, the local council has frozen any increases of fees for both companies. Also what they have done is changed the criteria for both residential and home care. Ie they save money and they also get more for their money.

Now thats hard enough to swallow but the same council gave their own care homes a £100 increase per client per week and yet they still dont manage to break even so the true cost of care supplied by my local council is never known as it spread across several budgets. I have gone on a bit of tangent here but I would imagine that what I have just said would get worse as the government would put the aqueeze on local councils. Whoever said elderly care was recession proof is an idiot.
 
Work in financial software am assuming that whoever gets in will want to make some banking reforms which basically means more work/profits for us...

Am hoping it will be the tories tbh... as we could do with some public sector cuts over potential tax rises tbh...
 
Chances are whoever gets in I will end up paying more tax. Apart from that it won't make much difference to me, at least at the moment anyway.
 
dbmzk1 said:
Chances are whoever gets in I will end up paying more tax. Apart from that it won't make much difference to me, at least at the moment anyway.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/apr/30/britain-told-raise-income-tax-6p

Britain should raise income taxes by 6p in the pound to make bigger inroads into its huge deficit or risk being vulnerable to the next financial crisis, according to a leading thinktank that advises the Treasury.
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http://www.24dash.com/news/Central_Government/2010-04-30-Taxes-could-rise-by-six-pence-in-the-pound


Tax experts at Deloitte said an average earner on £25,000 a year would pay more than £1,100 extra if income tax rose by 6p in the pound.

Based on figures for the current tax year, an average earner pays £3,705 in income tax at 20% - but this would rise to £4,817 at 26%, Deloitte said.
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I will get shafted whoever gets in

Married, working, no kids, car

I am number 1 soft touch for government policy
 
Work - won't really affect me too much. (Work for a Swiss company with no UK based clients).

Life - very concerned about the ramifications of a hung parliament for the GBP and the general economy.

Hope to hell the tories get in though.
 
I am trying to keep optimistic about it all. Whilst I accept labour's legacy will decrease my financial strength somewhat I hold dear the thought that it will be nothing as damaging as my 1st wife and her solicitor. I guess I am saying I have weathered worse :D
 
MuvverRussia said:
Work - won't really affect me too much. (Work for a Swiss company with no UK based clients).

Life - very concerned about the ramifications of a hung parliament for the GBP and the general economy.

Hope to hell the tories get in though.
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The possibility of hung parliament seems to be receding, the Lib Dem support seems to be falling at some rate
 
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