Re: Budget 2013 : Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:00 pm  

ExiledWool wrote:

That should save me 6p a week - I'm a responsible drinker - not much else I can see yet

Do you seriously expect that you'll walk into the pub on Sunday and find the price of a pint has gone down?

He may yet have another hangover from theis budget announcement: it's reckoned that EU regulations mean he'll have to treat wine in a similar manner to beer

Re: Budget 2013 : Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:03 pm  

DaveO wrote:

He doesn't seem to get it that paying people less means there is less money to spend. Drive wages ever downward and tax receipts are lower as well. So pay freezes and workfare undermining the minimum wage etc do nothing to fix the problem of low growth...

I reckon he does get it but simply isn't bothered by it because his main aim is reduce the size of the state ... and if it's ordinary people who suffer for it, all the better to manipulate them with the fear of redundancy.

But his weakness is his arrogance ... eventually people will see through the veil of divisive rhetoric about strivers and scroungers.
Eventually people will see that he is looking after those who created the crisis.

Re: Budget 2013 : Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:03 pm  

Mintball wrote:

He does have arrogance, though.

Which, combined with his lack of a brain, would explain why he chose the day before budget that was bound, once again, to reveal his failure by the measures he set himself, to open a Twitter account.

I bet he's getting so much abuse he'll close it down by midnight.

Re: Budget 2013 : Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:05 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

...He may yet have another hangover from theis budget announcement: it's reckoned that EU regulations mean he'll have to treat wine in a similar manner to beer

Surely that's easy to get around ... you just have to label it as a reduction in duty on lower-strength drink.
After all, the EU produces beer as well.

Re: Budget 2013 : Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:17 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

Surely that's easy to get around ... you just have to label it as a reduction in duty on lower-strength drink.
After all, the EU produces beer as well.

Difficult when some super-strength lagers are of a similar strength to lower-strength wines. Also I believe it is a cultural thing that first caused the link

Re: Budget 2013 : Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:23 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

Do you seriously expect that you'll walk into the pub on Sunday and find the price of a pint has gone down?

He may yet have another hangover from theis budget announcement: it's reckoned that EU regulations mean he'll have to treat wine in a similar manner to beer

A nice pint of Chateaux nuef du Pap for £3.20 will do nicely

[Durham Giant]

Re: Budget 2013 : Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:26 pm  

rover49 wrote:

At least you are getting something.

I agree compared to many i am pretty well off BUT i literally do not have two brass farthings to rub together. If i have no spare money to spend then there is no way many others can spen so there will be no increase in consumer spending which is what the Government needs to get the economy moving

[John_D]

Re: Budget 2013 : Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:27 pm  

rover49 wrote:

At least you are getting something.

He's getting a kick in the balls. Whether that's as severe as someone else's kick in the balls isn't really the heart of the debate, though I'm sure the government would prefer it to be framed so in order that nobody discusses who is doing the kicking and whose balls are going unkicked.

Re: Budget 2013 : Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:36 pm  

rover49 wrote:

A nice pint of Chateaux nuef du Pap for £3.20 will do nicely

When will it end ... all this stuff about the bloody pope?

Re: Budget 2013 : Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:37 pm  

John_D wrote:

He's getting a kick in the balls. Whether that's as severe as someone else's kick in the balls isn't really the heart of the debate, though I'm sure the government would prefer it to be framed so in order that nobody discusses who is doing the kicking and whose balls are going unkicked.

Wasn't meant as a dig or pissing contest. I am accutely aware of the cuts in LA as my wife is employed by one and she is in the same boat. I see from his budget he is going to shaft them even more by scrapping annual increments, which should provoke a reaction as the 100% rate IS the rate for the job, but most start on 85% and work up, which is a clever way of cutting pay in the long term by up to 15%.