Vinnie Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Who's expecting a right proper shafting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turps Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Did the ***** manage to get it finished? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie Posted March 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Did he run out of time and just make up numbers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR Ewing Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Expecting some more "tough decisions" are going to have to be made, but not really expecting a shafting as such.Tax thresholds set to rise, beer duty will stay the same although fuel duty might go up by a penny or two. However, given that means the cost of filling a 40 litre tank will go up by a maximum of 80p I don't think it's too much of a burden to bear.I'd certainly be a lot more nervous if it was a John McDonnell budget coming up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Deadpool Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 The type of **** that will appeal to morons who read vile hate stained garbage like The Sun etc will be appeased with a 1p reduction on a pint, simply so those rags can print a headline solely about it, ignoring the sweeping cuts to vital services and the poor. The morons will lap it up and vote how they're told for the upcoming EU referendum and the Conservatives will **** themselves laughing at how easy it is pull the strings of a sedated populace and how they keep getting away with what they do. As long as they can distract the proles with demonising immigrants, the poor, foreigners and anyone else they can then they'll keep getting away with it, and they'll keep getting richer as they sort their pals in the banks and big businesses out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Beer Baron Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Because more cuts means good right enough. "tough decisions" just a nice term for "fck the needy". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie Posted March 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Tough decisions shouldn't necessarily mean to screw the needy over? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Beer Baron Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 When you take away £30 a week from our most vulnerable, "tough decisons" is a bollocks phrase used by selfish scum to better themselves. How anyone with a conscience could vote for these people beggers belief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR Ewing Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Fuel duty frozen which was a bit of a surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie Posted March 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Yep, a bit of a surprise when you consider how much revenue the Government must be losing with the price of the fuel dropping as much as it has recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digs Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Fuel is now starting to creep back up again though. Maybe he knows something we don't... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie Posted March 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Fuel is now starting to creep back up again though. Maybe he knows something we don't...That had crossed my mind too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishmcbride Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Beer AND fuel duty frozen? Great news for drink drivers. Don't know about the sugar tax though, another example of an anti-scotish policy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie Posted March 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Sugar tax has been something they've been trying to implement for a few years now. Basically, you might not spend extra to get to your supermarket, but your weekly shop just increased. Same old same old, status quo with one hand, take from you with the other, and probably at greater benefit to the treasury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie Posted March 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Growth forecast cut for the next five years and £3.5bn in extra public spending cuts by 2020Fuel duty frozen for the sixth year2% increase in tax on cigarettes, with 3% on rolling tobacco, from 6pm, but beer and cider duty will be frozen as will the levy on whisky and other spiritsPlans for a longer school day in EnglandThe rate at which workers start paying top rate tax is to be raised from £42,385 to £45,000, with the tax-free personal raised to £11,500 and corporation tax to be cut to 17% by April 2020On savings, the ISA limit will be increased to £20,000 a year for all savers, and lifetime ISAs will be introduced for young peopleAn extra £700m for flood defences - to be paid with a 0.5% increase on the tax on insurance premiums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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