What are your budget predictions?

[fuctifino]

I reckon:

Fags/alcohol/fuel duty UP (no problems for the scum, a bit more thievery should cover it)

Stamp duty/CT/Employer NI contrbutions down slightly.

VAT to stay at 15%, possible zero rate on some chav items.

What do you think?

[Gunny Sergeant D]

Shrugs and says fuctifino.

[fuctifino]

You work for da gubberment.

[scorp]

Fags & Alcohol up ? Don't they need their 'core vote' more than ever now ?

[thinfourth2]

Spin, waffle, waffle, spin, bit more spin, tax the fat cats, spin, waffle, screw the evil motorist, empty promise, spin, waffle, red tape, waffle, spin.


Oh and no action of any sort that will effect anyone too much

[Jasandjules]

Predictions?

Rape the public for money to pay for their failures and incompetence.

[Bing o]

Booze and fags up 2p
2p more on petrol, to come in next year
VAT 20%
Increase the upper rate of income tax
Do somethng half arsed with NI
fk over our pensions again
10% pay rise for MPs

s, why won't they fk off and die, and why haven't we raided Westminster and executed every mother fking last one of them?

[Dracoro]

Politically risky to raise income tax so I reckon they'll raise NI. It's the same thing as raising income tax in reality but half hte public are too stupid to realise that and the govt. know it.

3/4p on drink/fags etc.

3p on fuel (they'll try to downplay this though, i.e. not to be phased in until X etc.)

Oh, and I think they'll be momumentally stupid and raise corporation tax

Edited by Dracoro on Tuesday 21st April 09:38

[Bing o]

Dracoro said:

Oh, and I think they'll be momumentally stupid and raise corporation tax

All the expoerts have said that they need to lower corporation tax - therefore I think you will be correct.

Gordon will raise it pay for more and more state jobs.

The kilted stwit that he is.

[oyster]

Politicians care about things in the following order:

5. The people of the world.
4. The people of their own country.
3. Their core voters.
2. Their paymasters.
1. Themselves.

Never ever underestimate the impact of their number one priority. The Labour party are quite capable of screwing over their core voters and even their union paymasters if it means they can cling on to or get power. Think of Blair in the mid-90s for evidence of this.
They will want to do everything to make it look like they are helping middle-England. All they want to do is to save a meltdown at the polls.

[shirt]

it'll all be done to strengthen their base, so if you are single and have a job then expect a shafting. i am.

Edited by shirt on Tuesday 21st April 10:17

[Plotloss]

I suspect he is going to rape smokers and drinkers.

25p on fags or similar.

[Martial Arts Man]

oyster said:

They will want to do everything to make it look like they are helping middle-England. All they want to do is to save a meltdown at the polls.

This is the battleground.

I seriously expect both top and bottom of society to get a pasting.

[sleep envy]

booze and fags up 4p
3p on fuel
VAT @ 15% until next year, then 18% and then 20%
45% income tax over and above £150k
£15/wk more for single mums, jobseekers and general layabouts

[otolith]

My prediction for how the budget will affect me:

• No more money for anything I care about.

• More money for some things I don't care about.

• I'll be paying more tax.

In a further demonstration of my Nostradamus-like power of prophesy, I predict that Christmas will fall on December 25th this year.

[Martial Arts Man]

sleep envy said:

£15/wk more for single mums, jobseekers and general layabouts

I think you're wrong on that one. Wouldn't go down too well with people who actually vote.

Plus, with this week's headlines about deflation, there is no political incentive, I don't think.


God, I hope you're wrong, anyway.

Where is the fingers crossed smiley when you need it eh!

[Zod]

I suspect that, rather than address the enormous problem of public sector pensions, they will make things much, much worse for the private sector by abolishing higher rate tax relief on pension contributions - another measure to use to try to get the Tories to have a policy to reverse it so that Labour can accuse them of cutting taxes on the rich.

[sleep envy]

Martial Arts Man said:

sleep envy said:

£15/wk more for single mums, jobseekers and general layabouts

I think you're wrong on that one. Wouldn't go down too well with people who actually vote.

it would go down very well considering they are the cretins that have kept this administration in for so long

[Martial Arts Man]

sleep envy said:

Martial Arts Man said:

sleep envy said:

£15/wk more for single mums, jobseekers and general layabouts

I think you're wrong on that one. Wouldn't go down too well with people who actually vote.

it would go down very well considering they are the cretins that have kept this administration in for so long

I was always under the impression that NL's electoral success was purely down to TB's effect on "Middle England" and women.

I don't have an statistics to back this up, but I suspect that the % of dole-careerists who bother to drag themselves out of bed to vote are few and far between.

Maybe you're right; I think GB would have to initiate an Obama-esque shuttle bus service to get them to the stations though.....stranger things have happened I guess.

[chris watton]

Martial Arts Man said:

sleep envy said:

Martial Arts Man said:

sleep envy said:

£15/wk more for single mums, jobseekers and general layabouts

I think you're wrong on that one. Wouldn't go down too well with people who actually vote.

it would go down very well considering they are the cretins that have kept this administration in for so long

I was always under the impression that NL's electoral success was purely down to TB's effect on "Middle England" and women.

I don't have an statistics to back this up, but I suspect that the % of dole-careerists who bother to drag themselves out of bed to vote are few and far between.

Maybe you're right; I think GB would have to initiate an Obama-esque shuttle bus service to get them to the stations though.....stranger things have happened I guess.

I think you may be right, as although the career doleites know all there is to know about obtaining benefits, I am sure they are hugly incapable of looking at the bigger picture - they see voting as a thing others do, there is nothing in it for them. (Have heard this more than a couple of times from one of my sisters, who tried to show off once for getting her windows and kitchen fitted for free off the council, when we paid for new double glazing..)