Re: [Update] The Liberal-Conservative Coalition
 

Why should we complain? Difficult decisions have to be made, and we have to balance the books.

Re: The New British Government: David Cameron is Prime Minister
 

If so, the NIC increase would cost those on 10K about £50 a year, the threshold increase would benefit them about £750, which would leave them £700 to spend on increased VAT.

Just kidding re. the VAT, I think the threshold increase is a very good thing.

Re: [Update] The Liberal-Conservative Coalition
 

its all Browns fault .

Re: The New British Government: David Cameron is Prime Minister
 

And IF there was a 2.5% increase in VAT, they would need to spend £28k on vatable goods before they were worse off. ;)

Re: The New British Government: David Cameron is Prime Minister
 

Which is why I said I was kidding and think the threshold increase is a good thing (though that was an edit) :)

Re: [Update] The Liberal-Conservative Coalition
 

It seems whatever changes are made (for the worse obviously) probably wouldn't affect you or your lifestyle that much, so you have the luxury of accepting the decisions made. Those that aren't as comfortable as you probably won't just agree to what's thrown at them. Why should 'we' complain? We'll I think you're speaking for yourself. Those that lose their job etc, should they accept it without complaint, just because as you say, difficult decisions have to be made.

Re: [Update] The Liberal-Conservative Coalition
 

And yet again the motorist gets shaffed, and pays more.

So the fact the world markets have collapsed is Browns fault

Re: [Update] The Liberal-Conservative Coalition
 

It affects me (my salary is frozen, my bills are still increasing), it affects my wife the same way (0.5% pay increase), it affects my 18 year old and my 23 year old, and it will affect our "lifestyle".

However, should we ignore the fact that we owe £178 billion, and haven't got the money to spend as a country - the over-spending pigeons have come home to roost, and we have to pay off our debts (or at least reduce them a bit).

And the "complain" was in response to you're right - I should have said "I won't complain".

Re: [Update] The Liberal-Conservative Coalition
 

Again, VAT is not only applicable to fuel.
Get a better fuel pump and use SVO or even WVO.


He disbanded the organisations which were around under the last Tory government to keep an eye on things and regulate the banks, and put us in a financial position that would make weathering the storm extremely painful.

Re: [Update] The Liberal-Conservative Coalition
 

World? Nope. The Aussie banking system did not collapse, the British did.

Brown was the chancellor for donkey years overseeing the Banks. Even a blind Bank regulator (or with one eye) should have seen the collapse coming....

Re: [Update] The Liberal-Conservative Coalition
 

Yes but everytime the motorist gets hit first, and I bet in the emergency budget fuel duty will get hit yet again.

Well as I'm out of work I cannot afford to spend any cash.

My car is 4.5 years old so doesn't need a pump and at the moment a full tank lasts a month.

But if I get the 6 month contract I'm after I have worked out that the fuel cost based on £1.23 per litre I will spend £1,500 in six months on diesel.

What is SVO, WVO?

I guess these are Vegetable Oil based diesels, if so my car cannot take them without damaging the engine (so I have been told) and I won't even consider it, unless the Ford dealer says so.

Re: [Update] The Liberal-Conservative Coalition
 

iv'e had to listen to its thatchers fault for long enough ,its gordo's turn on the rack for the next twenty odd years .

and his financial genius got us where we are- don't blame the whole world

Re: [Update] The Liberal-Conservative Coalition
 

I never blamed thatcher, plus who can GB be blamed for the last 20 years when Labout was only in for 13?

What I was saying is that all the worlds markets have fallen, and even if GB was completely incompetant, he cannot be blamed for other countries.

Re: [Update] The Liberal-Conservative Coalition
 

agreed ,i use a tank every 5 days (80 litres) on average and coupled with lower wages it will be a big increase in my fuel bill ,the gov should not increase the duty on fuel ,it will cause a lot more hardship than just replacing the fuel pump and using alternatives can cure ,that is far too simplistic a view

Re: [Update] The Liberal-Conservative Coalition
 

The other thing forgotten with fuel rises are increased costs to the supermarkets and public transport. So even switching to the bus is not an option.