How much....!!!! New Budget

[wtaylor]

Just a few highlights

To provide certainty, the chancellor said he is writing to the governor of the Bank of England to keep a 2% target on inflation

Borrowing next year will rise to £43bn, some 2.9% of national income, Mr Darling said. It will fall to 1.3% by 2012/13.

Mr Darling said an extra £2bn will be spent on troops in the frontline, including £900m on military equipment.


From April 2010, all long term recipients of incapacity benefit will attend work capacity programmes.

From October 2009, rules for housing and council tax benefit will mean families on benefit are better off in work. From April, 2009, child benefit will be increased to £20 a week.

Cash ISA limit confirmed as £3,600 a year from April, Mr Darling said

There will be a capital fund of £12.5m to encourage more women entrepreneurs

From this April, key workers such as teachers and nurses, will be able to borrow money from shared equity schemes. Stamp duty on shared ownership homes will not be required until people own 80% of their home

Sites for 70,000 more houses have been identified, Mr Darling said

And of course:
Cigarettes up 11p a packet.
Beer up by 4p a pint, wine 14p a bottle, spirits 55p a bottle and cider 3p a litre by Sunday.


source: www.bbc.co.uk

[wizard1974uk]

Any news on the fuel duty?

[wtaylor]

2p after October

[moonrat]

6% above inflation on a pint..think that puts it to 4 quid a pint in edinburgh (unless you goto cheap student pubs)

[Nikki]

isa 3.6k yippeee

[BBK]

55% on a litre of spirits, ouch!!

[wizard1974uk]

2p after October

Robbing gits.

[tips]

It's no wonder folks are leaving the country in their droves. The sooner I can join em the fu(king better.

[BertRoot]

55% on a litre of spirits, ouch!!

It is 55p you loon. I nearly killed all the people around me.

[Thalamus]

It's no wonder folks are leaving the country in their droves. The sooner I can join em the fu(king better.

Agree Im going to fook off to France. The only positive for me was the child benefit up to £20 for my 6 month old daughter. They give in one hand and take out the other

[apllrd]

i'm a single homeowner, reasonable mortgage, no kids, have an economical car, wages hovering just below the upper tax bracket, i drink but thankfully don't smoke.
there is not one thing positive in that budget for me. time to start looking at that green card.

[Thrush]

Only a year and a bit for me to do and I'm off as well. Sorry madam Britannia, screw this for a good time!

[apllrd]

bbc has just put up a budget calculator,
budget calculator
apparently i'm gonna be £280 a year better off because of income tax changes, somehow i don't think i'll see much of it.

[MercuryRises]

2p after October

Yeah, but my local petrol station has gone up at least 2p a litre in the last 6 to 8 weeks, so it'll be 2p in October, just 6p or so between now and then as well.

[B B Leo]

cueball u are going to loose a fortune now

[Thrush]

That is why I have built a stil in my back garden... Pochine anyone?

[TwoPlAnKs]

i'm a single homeowner, reasonable mortgage, no kids, have an economical car, wages hovering just below the upper tax bracket, i drink but thankfully don't smoke.
there is not one thing positive in that budget for me. time to start looking at that green card.

and you're exactly the kind of person who actually contributes to society instead of just costing everyone a fortune with asking for free money to look after their kids or pay for their lack of job.

i think that's the one thing wrong with this budget, although i agree with each individual point, getting less kids in poverty and upping the tax on the costly luxuries like drink and fags all seems great, but its leaving a lot of people like you feeling very hacked off.

there is of course the other side of the budget, the spending side. a lot of people dont consider this because it has less of a tangible affect on themselves. eg. 1000 more policemen arent going to be as immediately noticeable as you needing to count out 11 more pence every time you buy fags, but ultimately this has a huge affect on our lives. increasing military spending so we can blow up other countries seems a bit silly when we could spend it on useful things, like a new computer for everyone who is me for example. or something actually useful, like killing all the neds or stopping MRSA from killing all of our grannies. the army could be put to much better use in a lot of town centers at night here than in other countries

at least you can think yourselves lucky, they are planning to reinstate poll tax again in scotland too. its not gonna happen but its scary how fucking close it is

[Mule]

I agree with everyones comments about leaving the country.

The sooner you go the better.

[apllrd]

and you're exactly the kind of person who actually contributes to society instead of just costing everyone a fortune with asking for free money to look after their kids or pay for their lack of job.

i think that's the one thing wrong with this budget, although i agree with each individual point, getting less kids in poverty and upping the tax on the costly luxuries like drink and fags all seems great, but its leaving a lot of people like you feeling very hacked off.

there is of course the other side of the budget, the spending side. a lot of people dont consider this because it has less of a tangible affect on themselves. eg. 1000 more policemen arent going to be as immediately noticeable as you needing to count out 11 more pence every time you buy fags, but ultimately this has a huge affect on our lives. increasing military spending so we can blow up other countries seems a bit silly when we could spend it on useful things, like a new computer for everyone who is me for example. or something actually useful, like killing all the neds or stopping MRSA from killing all of our grannies. the army could be put to much better use in a lot of town centers at night here than in other countries

at least you can think yourselves lucky, they are planning to reinstate poll tax again in scotland too. its not gonna happen but its scary how fu(king close it is

think you may have missed the hint there, story is, why make the people who make a genuine contribution without taking anything out of society, be persecuted time and time again to compensate for the governments bad decisions on illegal wars (debatable i know) , pay for there own irresbonsibility over immigration, health , pensions, law......to name but a few. people like me could get much more 'bang for there buck' elsewhere, that is why so many like me are leaving the country in droves.

[TwoPlAnKs]

think you may have missed the hint there, story is, why make the people who make a genuine contribution without taking anything out of society, be persecuted time and time again to compensate for the governments bad decisions on illegal wars (debatable i know) , pay for there own irresbonsibility over immigration, health , pensions, law......to name but a few. people like me could get much more 'bang for there buck' elsewhere, that is why so many like me are leaving the country in droves.

i dont think i missed it, thats exactly what i thought you meant

i would never leave the UK for a negative reason but then neither would most of the people who say they would