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Tuftus 16-03-2005 14:22
Re: The Budget
 
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Originally Posted by Paul
Mind you I hope the Beeb is wrong about this

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* Extra £400 promised for defence


;)

That may buy em a few pairs of combats!!!

:p:

bob_builder 16-03-2005 14:23
Re: The Budget
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul
Well that's stamp duty raised then ;)
Yes, but £120,00 0 will not even buy you a 1 bed flat around here :(

Mr_love_monkey 16-03-2005 14:24
Re: The Budget
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul
Mind you I hope the Beeb is wrong about this
;)
They're just going to buy a very big stick...

etccarmageddon 16-03-2005 14:24
Re: The Budget
 
you're talking in the region of £140k for a starter home round here and that's not in a particularly nice area. the best you can hope for on that £120k limit is a flat.

I would abolish stamp duty and abolish inheritance tax - vote for me!

Flubflow 16-03-2005 14:24
Re: The Budget
 
Chav Budget News....
Duty frozen on Cider.
The 7p increase in fags duty will not affect the average chav due to the availability of duty frees from Shazzer down the street.

Tuftus 16-03-2005 14:25
Re: The Budget
 
Duty frozen on cider...

That will keep the bus station winos happy!

Paul K 16-03-2005 14:29
Re: The Budget
 
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Pensioners

* Pensioners to get a council tax refund of £200

* Free local bus travel for every pensioner from next year.
Free bus travel? Well let's face it, with petrol prices sneaking up and down pensioners can only just afford to run their cars :erm:
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Employment

* There will be new rules to encourage incapacity benefit claimants into work and changes to housing benefit to help create jobs.

* From next month, there will be £2,000 return to work bonuses available to single parents

* Mr Brown pledged new centres for people to get vocational training

* He announced £65m to be spent in the coming year on employer training pilots

* Mr Brown said new plans to target young people at risk of causing crime would be unveiled.

Help for parents

* Child tax credit to rise by 13%, in line with earnings, over next three years

* Child benefit to rise to a maximum of £63 for the first child and £111 for two children

* Help promised for early learning in every area for all children who need it

* Refund VAT incurred by local councils on children's centres

* New building programme for primary schools to be established, at cost of £9.4bn up to 2010.
With this and the cider and fag tax situation he's really turning in the Chav Chancellor

Scarlett 16-03-2005 14:33
Re: The Budget
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuftus
Duty frozen on cider...

That will keep the bus station winos happy!
I dunno, does white lightning qualify as Cider ???

Paul K 16-03-2005 14:36
Re: The Budget
 
Anyone bored enough to read through the whole budget?

altis 16-03-2005 14:38
Re: The Budget
 
An overview:

http://bbc.co.uk/budget

Paul K 16-03-2005 14:40
Re: The Budget
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by altis
Yeah, people might recognise some of these keypoints ;)
Oh and they added the M onto the Defence budget increase :p:

Paul 16-03-2005 14:41
Re: The Budget
 
I predict a long boring speech :zzz: - which I will miss as I'm off to watch "Son of the Mask" instead. :)

Tuftus 16-03-2005 14:42
Re: The Budget
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scarlett
I dunno, does white lightning qualify as Cider ???
Probably in an unrefined way I guess...

;)

Paul K 16-03-2005 14:45
Re: The Budget
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul M
I predict a long boring speech :zzz: - which I will miss as I'm off to watch "Son of the Mask" instead. :)
We'll record it for you or twist the news broadcasters arm so they re-show it every hour for the next 2-3 days ;)

zoombini 16-03-2005 15:03
Re: The Budget
 
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* He announced £65m to be spent in the coming year on employer training pilots
Cool, I fancy learning to fly :D :D

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* Free local bus travel for every pensioner from next year.
Nice, only it's followed by:
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There will be a huge reduction in unnessasary bus services next year, I.E. thoose used by pensioners etc.
:D


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