The question is, is it a good budget or not ?
IMO no not really, My family will benefit very little from anything mentioned so far, Child benefit increase will just come of my other benefit.
Car tax and fuel no change so no change except fuel is currently higher than a while ago.
Stamp duty threshold doubled, imo the amount increased by is absolutely useless really outside of scotland and wales.
Inheritence tax threshold up by an ammount not really worth mentioning
Pensions up some and about time too but of no use to me atm
Beer and wine increases will not really affect me much we dont drink a lot. Fags increase is bound to affect me somewhat.
About the best thing in the whole of this budget is, if its still there when my up n coming *chavs* reach that age they could in reality now consider staying on that extra year or two.
PS. the term *chav* is really not nice why do you all use it? and Im gonna hazard a guess its a Mancunian or similar northwards of me in the midlands expression ?
So am I happy with the budget? Nope not really
Was it an election bribing budget? imo nope but the majority will probably be fooled to think its really good
And finally could the tory's have done better ?
Take Mr Howard at his own words, Its "a pay later budget" indicating the tory's would certainly have made many more increases than Labour did.
Enjoy your new found wealth people
