March Budget 2016

Freakbro said:
Though I've been there, so know what it's like, I'm just surprised it's so many people.
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I have read that statistic before, although it was phrased slightly differently; that a percentage of the population were one salary payment away from poverty.

It's worrying. Ideally we'd all have several months salary saved for emergencies, but the realities of modern life prevent that happening for most.
 
The Geezer said:
Why not, not everyone has the money to take the hit a vast majority of our society is made up of the working poor.

He has found a new source for a stealth tax and hit it a couple of times.
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I see your point, I was trying to put "100% tax rise" into context. It was quite a small tax to begin with so it seems more alarming.
 
joeyjojo said:
Only works out as £37 a year on car insurance if it goes ahead. Not worth getting too worked up about 71 pence a week.
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Hits the cost of business pretty badly though. Another 3% might not sound much but I've got a few clients who will be paying thousands more for their premiums. When it's already gone up by 3.5% in the last 12 months putting it up again can really start to hurt.
 
Freakbro said:
Heh, heard two cynical points about this help to save scheme,

1) If you can afford to put £50 a month aside, then you're getting too much in tax credits! :p

2) If you did save this amount up, then you would be classed as having to much in savings and have your benefits docked :D
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I read the same thing, and wouldn't be at all surprised if that's what happened...
 
Cyanide said:
Hits the cost of business pretty badly though. Another 3% might not sound much but I've got a few clients who will be paying thousands more for their premiums. When it's already gone up by 3.5% in the last 12 months putting it up again can really start to hurt.
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That's professional drivers or haulage or something I suppose? Can't they pass it on to customers anyway?

anticonscience said:
Wow.
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Not sure what you're implying here. £37 per year for the average motorist is less of a worry to me than the £100/week he's rumoured to be taking from disabled people.
 
Just because it's a 'small' amount does not make it right at all, it won't stop there either.

What will happen is people will then have to decide against insurance in times of hardship, then they have bad luck and are left without imsurance.

Awful idea.
 
joeyjojo said:
That's professional drivers or haulage or something I suppose? Can't they pass it on to customers anyway?.
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Architects, solicitors, mortgage brokers, surveyors, financial planners, engineers etc

Yes, the cost will probably be passed on to the customers, as it will with any increase such as this. The customers of the above trades are mostly the general public, or other businesses. Even if they only pass it on to other businesses it'll get back to the general public eventually.

What might seem like "only £37 on your car insurance a year" can actually bump the cost of everything you buy up.
 
Every year its the same, cut this, cut that, budget this, budget that. But how many of us are actually better off or see any difference in the normal working world? Paying extra taxes for what?!?! Pay more for less.
 
I am significantly better off now than I was 5-6 years ago because there is a prosperous (if not heavily distorted in the South) property market with plenty of jobs about.
 
So surprise surprise, the £27 Billion he found down the back of the sofa in last Novembers spending review (Which a lot of us criticised him for 'spending' as it was just based on shaky estimated forcasts) has vanished in a puff of smoke...hence we have gone from Nov "When everything is rosy and we can spend more" to March "Everything is tight and we have to cut more"

It does stagger me that he still has a reputation of being a good chancellor when he has missed nearly all of his own targets, including the absolute 'cast iron guaranteed' ones
 
What were his cast Iron Dave guarantees other than balancing the books?

Can't he just do what Gordon did and move the goalposts?
 
I confess to not having had much interest about Education since leaving it, but are Academies really a benefit? I understand there are issues with local authorities running things but these can be managed.

If no one is required to teach a curriculum, how will they set exams?
How will we rate our students?
Who will be responsible for the academies and who is responsible for the currently under performing "chains"?
Who will take responsibility for long term planning of school places?
Who will deal with appeals of children that can't get into 1st choice school?
If there are no national payscales, how are they going to recruit teachers "oop norf" rather than "darn sarf" where the pay will surely be better?
 
It's an ideological change with no sound basis.

Also worryingly, sex education and religious rules are a lot looser in academies compared to the standards required from council run schools. So this could also impact health and well-being in the long term as well.

There is also the point that acadamies are significantly more open to personal and corporate funding.

Overall it looks like a move to an American type system.

The Tories have spotted the weak opposition and are going full "nasty" Imho.
 
Goksly said:
Its call a deficit. We're reducing it - but you don't see anything "more" for your money, because it's paying off our debt. Apparently our weekly interest bill is £1bn a week.
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6 years of cuts and nothing to show, its not working the Torys have no idea what to do, they seem to cut on one side and give on the other. they will destroy whats left of this country.
 
Freakbro said:
So surprise surprise, the £27 Billion he found down the back of the sofa in last Novembers spending review (Which a lot of us criticised him for 'spending' as it was just based on shaky estimated forcasts) has vanished in a puff of smoke...hence we have gone from Nov "When everything is rosy and we can spend more" to March "Everything is tight and we have to cut more"

It does stagger me that he still has a reputation of being a good chancellor when he has missed nearly all of his own targets, including the absolute 'cast iron guaranteed' ones
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He is a tool and should not be in control, he should have not spent what he tried t save, its just taking from one end and giving to another nothing really changes apart from hitting the poor.

why did they give MPs 11% wage increase when everyone is cutting it shows they dont really care about the public.
They could cut foreign aid by 30% that would be an instant 4 billion saved per year.
 
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