The All New Budget Thread

[Barman]

All the meeja has been speculating on what will be in it... the gov have leaked the positive bits and you can pretty much guarantee what the negative bits will be... 

A nice summary by leg-iron...

Tomorrow, Socialist Equality will make us all a little poorer. The Chancer is bound to put up the price of tobacco and booze. They always do. Petrol, too, so better get out and fill up if you fancy driving around anywhere.

He's going to offer those with nine-year-old and older cars a fistful of rapidly-depreciating money to scrap the banger and buy a shiny new one. The trouble is, two grand doesn't buy much of a new car and if you drive an ancient rustbucket, chances are you don't have the rest of the money available to make up the difference. If you did, you wouldn't be driving a nine-year-old car. So this is worthless.

He's going to announce help for those with massive mortgages who have lost their jobs. Good idea, but in order to qualify, you have to have a regular income. So if you've lost your job you don't qualify. So this is worthless.

Wads of cash will be used to insulate homes. Council homes only, naturally. Can't have any of us filthy non-dependent people saving on our bills. The reasoning is simple. Many of those in council homes don't pay their electricity and gas bills. So the chancer is saving his money, not ours. Well, it was ours, now it's 'tax' and he wants to make savings. He doesn't want the rest of us making savings because if we use less gas and electricity, we pay less tax on it. He wants more tax from us but he wants his army of dependents to stop spending it. So this is worthless.

Oh, and he's going to build loads more little hutches to store his dependent pets in. Using magic money he'll pull from his hat with a cheery 'Ta-daa'. Well he has to store his horde of imported voters somewhere.

Got a pension? Not any more. He's raiding those again. Saving up for retirement will be pointless within 24 hours.

Good news? There isn't any. Except that this will, hopefully, be the last Labour budget we'll see for a very long time.

I wonder what he'll do when the last taxpayer has chucked in work and marched into the Jobbie Centre to demand their share? Perhaps he'll tax MP's expenses, which the Gorgon intends to sneakily increase by clamping down on them.

He'll have to. Nobody else has any left.

 

[The Moan Ranger]

If you can stomach it, watch this video.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3553301/smile-smile-smile.thtml

 

[Grumpmeister]

He's going to announce help for those with massive mortgages who have lost their jobs. Good idea, but in order to qualify, you have to have a regular income. So if you've lost your job you don't qualify. So this is worthless.

I have a feeling that this may be an unpopular view but if you were stupid enough to take out a mortgage without payment protection then why the hell should taxpayers money be used to bail you out?

[Uncle Mort]

Not unpopular with me. 

[Snoopy]

Clearly Grumpmeister you do not understand how "Mortgage Payment Protection" cover works. It is subject to more enquiries and compaints about insurance mis-selling than any other form of insurance known to man.
In short it is one big con.


Anyone doubt this? Then wait until you are out of work and try making a claim and watch them wriggle out of giving you a penny after all you have paid in.

[Grumpmeister]

Gordo is having a really bad day, everyone can smell blood in the water and Darling looks like he's gone through a bottle of prozac before turning up.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8010759.stm

[Barman]

Scrappage 

[Grumpmeister]

Do I understand scrappage correctly. If I want to get a £2000 discount on a new car all I have to do is buy a cheap second hand old banger for a few quid and then cash it in? 

[Barman]

Do I understand scrappage correctly. If I want to get a £2000 discount on a new car all I have to do is buy a cheap second hand old banger for a few quid and then cash it in? 

If you haven't got one already you are prolly too late now! 

[Barman]

Hats off to 'Call me Dave', an excellent response IMHO! 

[GROWLER]

Do I understand scrappage correctly. If I want to get a £2000 discount on a new car all I have to do is buy a cheap second hand old banger for a few quid and then cash it in? 

You'll have to have it registered and taxed in your own name for 12 months before you qualify.

[The Moan Ranger]

Hats off to 'Call me Dave', an excellent response IMHO! 

Wot he said!

[Grumpmeister]

Do I understand scrappage correctly. If I want to get a £2000 discount on a new car all I have to do is buy a cheap second hand old banger for a few quid and then cash it in? 

You'll have to have it registered and taxed in your own name for 12 months before you qualify.

I don't drive anyway but given the total incompetence of this shower it seemed to be highly probable they'd have cocked it up.

[GROWLER]

Do I understand scrappage correctly. If I want to get a £2000 discount on a new car all I have to do is buy a cheap second hand old banger for a few quid and then cash it in? 

You'll have to have it registered and taxed in your own name for 12 months before you qualify.

I don't drive anyway but given the total incompetence of this shower it seemed to be highly probable they'd have cocked it up.

The bastard hasn't actually read out the small print, i.e., terms and conditions apply, but I have heard this is going to be the case. So no point in rushing out to purchase a banger, as by the time you've owned it for 12 months, the scheme scam will have ended.

The whole thing's a no brainer anyway, as most that have got a 10+ yr old banger have got it because they can't afford a £12k + new one anyway.
No doubt some 'labour supporting sheepies' will see this differently however, and go and rush off to get themsaelves in more debt

[GROWLER]

Fuel up 2p AGAIN in September. 
Fags/baccy up 2%
Ale up 2%

All the things that most of us cherish to numb and anethetise our brains for even a short period of time against this shower of thieving toliet bacterial scum, have gone up...AGAIN.

I have a baseball bat waiting for the first political shitester that dares to visit my doorstep next year.