what do you all think of the budget this year?

Question

it really bugs me that Brown has yet again increased the price of wine, beer,cigarettes with effect from six o clock this evening! Again there is no increase on spirits,(mmmmmmmm i wonder why?) Why is he lowering the income tax for corporate buisness and increasing it for small buisneses? The increase in child benefit increases by £20 for the first child...fab.... just gotta wait till 2010 to benefit, i am married and have 5 children we both work and we will be worse off by around £90 a year, I am reserving judgement on the £8 billion NHS reforms, lets see where it is spent first, just think its a fools budget yet again, any views welcome!

i agree with a lot of what you sat billybob, but isnt the idea that a new government makes changes to the s**t that was left behind and whilst i appreciate it can take years to undo 10 is just far too long! We had simmilar things under the tories ie family credit, it has just been tweeked a little, as for the minimum wage all that has served to achieve is to drive down the wages of the skilled trades people.

Answer 1

Total utter pants - I'm single, no kids and not old

I'm buggered!

Answer 2

Well we can all moan about all the normal things about smoking going up, beer and wine as well, even the increase of Road tax for the good olde chelsea tractor. Although I believe that everyone who moans about labour this and labour that has got a very short memory to the point they start thinking that the tory goverment was ok, but just remeber who made the NHS the disaster is it today, who also took catering out of schools and NHS, where it was cheeper to have some over sugered fat enriched filth they call food and feed it to the sick and our children on??? Who also kept borrowing agasnt the national defecite as well as paying a multibillion 60year dollar loan out?? ( Im waiting for the yells here!) The end of it, is that yeah governments are crappy, yes labour has made mistakes like any other, but at least our votes get counted unlike our cousins from the atlantic where there government is decided on the exit polls without the vote being counted. OH and who made it so that you had to pay to get a degree? Isnt the conservative ideals are more capitalistic hence the rich get richer and the poor get, well deader, it's been like that for years, and it's a shame that buisness's arnt looked after and it's a shame that the younger people have to pay for the education that I got from for free, but have you looked at the other sides like TAX CREDITS, that never existed in the conservative era, there was no minimum wage so you had to work your nuts off for silly money, there's a lot of problems, but look at the bigger picture it's better then any conservative government could ever achive and if you put the 21'st century blunder of the 2nd vietnam this government has done more the normal person then others

Answer 3

What do i think of it? Gordon Brown is absolutely desperate to be Prime Minister but knows that Tony Blair is a hard act to follow! So that is why he has try to make a budget that will make everybody say "isn't Gordon wonderful" by only putting a penny on beer and being all Green and cutting income tax and all the rest of the ballyhoo based on the fable that the economy is so strong because he'se done his job well. It is all bunkum and most people know that. The only problem is that to get rid of Gordon from being PM we have to vote for David Cameron or the Lib-Dems and both are even worse !
There is no way out!l

Answer 4

I agree with a lot of the comments expressed.. Give with one hand takeaway with the other. Don't believe anything in a budget announcement, (any party), until the red book, issued at the same time can be gone through by all MPs, business and economic commentators. A budget is no longer worth while.
Much of it is window dressing and points scoring against opposition parties. Only when all the small print and data is analysed can we see how, for example, general tax cuts have probably been clawed back in other areas.

Never believe the spin of a chancellor of any party, Wait for the facts to emerge.

Answer 5

As always GIVING WITH ONE HAND
TAKING AWAY WITH THE OTHER. The onlygood thing may be a lower Income Tax. BUT has abolished the lower band of 10% Income Tax. Brown is obviously getting his foot under the table for PM-Time !!!!!
what P****S me off is, that G.B. thinks we are all stupid !!! It sort of is degrading.................

Answer 6

I think you just about summed it up yourself ! yet another give with one hand and take with the other budget from Brown...yet have you noticed he always takes more than he gives!
I think he actually believes that the British public are stupid and will not realise what he is doing , I have never witnessed another politician (excluding Blair of course ) who blatantly lies about everything and I mean EVERYTHING!!!