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Old Mar 18, 2015 | 08:44 PM
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Default So what did you make of the budget?

I know on the whole these things are a zero sum game but was wondering how people felt about it.

Anything in there that helps or hinders you?
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Old Mar 18, 2015 | 09:00 PM
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Penny off beer is taking the **** !
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Nothing life changing, so yet another yawn....
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The budget is merely a "mass experiment" in human despair which the government describes as an economic policy plan.
A government whos front bench consists predominately of millionaires educated at Eton and all the other elite schools in England.
At the other end of the social spectrum, the five richest families in Britain share more wealth between them than the poorest 20 percent of the population.
Food bank statistics don't lie, we are turning into a nation of poverty, destitution, and despair.
The poor are indeed getting poorer, the rich are.................
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Originally Posted by stipete75
The budget is merely a "mass experiment" in human despair which the government describes as an economic policy plan.
A government whos front bench consists predominately of millionaires educated at Eton and all the other elite schools in England.
At the other end of the social spectrum, the five richest families in Britain share more wealth between them than the poorest 20 percent of the population.
Food bank statistics don't lie, we are turning into a nation of poverty, destitution, and despair.
The poor are indeed getting poorer, the rich are.................


What would you have liked to see in the budget to address these issues?
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Old Mar 18, 2015 | 11:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Dingdongler
What would you have liked to see in the budget to address these issues?
I'm guessing a Government who have actually lived and worked in the real world and not one made up of stuck up overpaid ar$eholes?
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Originally Posted by stipete75
A government whos front bench consists predominately of millionaires educated at Eton and all the other elite schools in England..
If you think labour don't have a history of Etonians then you need to do a bit more research. Instead of bright sparks do you prefer your leaders to deregulate the financial sector and sell our gold reserves at a low price? Its never as black and white as you think.
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Penny off beer is taking the **** !
What takes the **** is that we all know the pubs will still put it up by 10p per pint tomorrow.
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Old Mar 19, 2015 | 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by RA Dunk
I'm guessing a Government who have actually lived and worked in the real world and not one made up of stuck up overpaid ar$eholes?


I'm guessing you never actually bother to read what's written?

I asked what measures he (or anybody else) would have liked to have seen in the budget to address the inequalities in the UK.

Feel free to actually try and answer the question.
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Originally Posted by Dingdongler



Feel free to actually try and answer the question.
Ok moron, he asked.

Originally Posted by stipete75


A government whos front bench consists predominately of millionaires educated at Eton and all the other elite schools in England.
My answer was,

Originally Posted by RA Dunk
a Government who have actually lived and worked in the real world and not one made up of stuck up overpaid ar$eholes?
So yes the question has already been answered, so feel free to remove your head from your own **** in future.
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Originally Posted by RA Dunk
Ok moron, he asked.



My answer was,



So yes the question has already been answered, so feel free to remove your head from your own **** in future.
Ignore him Dunk, he'd vote for a chimp if it had a blue rosette pinned to it. The thread is nothing more than an opportunity for him to tell us all how great he thinks Osborne is before throwing in that he has met him as they move in similar social circles
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.. nothing more than an opportunity for him to tell us all how great he thinks Osborne is ...
Obsorne is great. He's a great politician.

He's a **** useless Chancellor though!
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Just strikes me ***** / labour dont have a blumin clue what to do , hes still repeating the mantra that weve got to spend spend spend otherwise we'll slip back on teh progress weve made


So what would have happened if we'd followed this same mantra when this all started


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Originally Posted by RA Dunk
Ok moron, he asked.



My answer was,



So yes the question has already been answered, so feel free to remove your head from your own **** in future.


There is no point me wasting time discussing anything with somebody who is clearly very stupid.
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
Ignore him Dunk, he'd vote for a chimp if it had a blue rosette pinned to it. The thread is nothing more than an opportunity for him to tell us all how great he thinks Osborne is before throwing in that he has met him as they move in similar social circles


That's a particularly long cycle you're having this month F1anny

I'd offer some advice but I'm not a gynaecologist

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Old Mar 19, 2015 | 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by RA Dunk
I'm guessing a Government who have actually lived and worked in the real world and not one made up of stuck up overpaid ar$eholes?
Problem with that is people who are able to give up their time are those who had worked in the real world will likely to be fairly rich in order to be able take their time away from work or have sold up their business for a tidy sum, or have decided to give up their failing business. Those that haven't are still busy trying to run a successful business in the real world so that counts them out. Question now is which of those remaining do want to run the country and what sort of work/industry would make one a suitable politician to run the country?
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Old Mar 19, 2015 | 04:29 PM
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supposedly we'll be £250 a year better off as a house hold. about sums it up.

TBH right now i just hope things carry on the way they are because there is def a recovery going on, with a long way to go still.

Assuming the figures arn't all bollox of course lol
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Originally Posted by dpb
... hes still repeating the mantra that weve got to spend spend spend otherwise we'll slip back on teh progress weve made

So what would have happened if we'd followed this same mantra when this all started


You're clearly not a man with a handle on the facts, are you.
Spend, spend, spend is just what Osborne's been doing.

It's why he's struggled to eliminate the deficit and UK national debt is twice as much as when he took over.

He's a con man who's been talking austerity but has had to spend to escape the double dip recession his austerity experiment nearly plunged us all into in 2012.

And yesterday's 'cash-for-votes' bravura charade truly was a budget for jobs: Tory MP's jobs.
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Originally Posted by SouthWalesSam
You're clearly not a man with a handle on the facts, are you.
Spend, spend, spend is just what Osborne's been doing.

It's why he's struggled to eliminate the deficit and UK national debt is twice as much as when he took over.

He's a con man who's been talking austerity but has had to spend to escape the double dip recession his austerity experiment nearly plunged us all into in 2012.

And yesterday's 'cash-for-votes' bravura charade truly was a budget for jobs: Tory MP's jobs.
I appreciate you are not impartial.
However, answer this:
Do you genuinely believe that a Labour Government this May would be the best result for the United Kingdom?
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Old Mar 19, 2015 | 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Dingdongler
I know on the whole these things are a zero sum game but was wondering how people felt about it.

Anything in there that helps or hinders you?
I actually thought, as a political speech, cracking job. Labour must have been demoralised by that one.

As far as content goes, as a middle-earner with no kids I can't remember any budget that has impacted significantly on me in any way.

But I have never been selfish. I like the saving plan for first-time buyers, the removal of the daft rule that meant if you took money out of an ISA it couldn't go back in again, and raising the 0% and 40% bands. Given the limitations created by the current finances I kinda liked most of it.

Although £250K to investigate why seagulls attack people (mostly holidaymakers) could probably be better spent elsewhere.
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Originally Posted by SouthWalesSam
You're clearly not a man with a handle on the facts, are you.
Spend, spend, spend is just what Osborne's been doing.

It's why he's struggled to eliminate the deficit and UK national debt is twice as much as when he took over.

He's a con man who's been talking austerity but has had to spend to escape the double dip recession his austerity experiment nearly plunged us all into in 2012.

And yesterday's 'cash-for-votes' bravura charade truly was a budget for jobs: Tory MP's jobs.




my goodness you sound bitter ,whats the root of this ?
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Originally Posted by dpb
my goodness you sound bitter ,whats the root of this ?
Idiots like you who are sucked in by their nonsense? Just a thought
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Originally Posted by dpb
my goodness you sound bitter ,whats the root of this ?
He's Welsh perhaps.
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
Idiots like you who are sucked in by their nonsense? Just a thought
that makes little sense at all you big puff

try again
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that makes little sense at all you big puff

try again
Of course it makes sense, well to anyone with more than half a brain which judging by your plethora of stupid posts excludes you!
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Originally Posted by stipete75
The budget is merely a "mass experiment" in human despair which the government describes as an economic policy plan.
A government whos front bench consists predominately of millionaires educated at Eton and all the other elite schools in England.
At the other end of the social spectrum, the five richest families in Britain share more wealth between them than the poorest 20 percent of the population.
Food bank statistics don't lie, we are turning into a nation of poverty, destitution, and despair.
The poor are indeed getting poorer, the rich are.................

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Ahh these would be the overpaid ar$eholes who have never lived in the real world I was talking about .

Originally Posted by RA Dunk
I'm guessing a Government who have actually lived and worked in the real world and not one made up of stuck up overpaid ar$eholes?
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Originally Posted by SouthWalesSam
He's a con man who's been talking austerity but has had to spend to escape the double dip recession his austerity experiment nearly plunged us all into in 2012.

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so true - an omnishambles

they failed - but the true genius is to convince the stupid they succeeded
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Voting labour then Hodgy ?
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Originally Posted by hodgy0_2
so true - an omnishambles

they failed - but the true genius is to convince the stupid they succeeded
Yep, and the most stupid of responses to anyone you say that to is 'it would be worse under Labour' like that somehow makes it all alright
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