O/T Are you ready for the Budget

[Lolmorgan]

Will it be tighten the purse strings.

[KerrAvon]

Well look at like this. We've become a country where:

1. You can wait hours for an ambulance to turn up over pothole filled roads.

2. You can wait years for NHS treatment.

3.You can wait years or for a trial if you are a victim of crime or a person accused of a crime.

4. Your kids can end up being educated in crumbling classrooms.

5. Where our armed forces would struggle to defend us.

6. Etc.

You can either accept that and the need to raise money to deal with those issues or can accept a continued slide into mediocrity.

[UlleyMiller]

I have to be because of the work it creates for me professionally.

I'm hopeful, but cautious, that they'll stick to the line about looking after working people. It feels like the right thing to do.

[howdydoo]

Well look at like this. We've become a country where:

1. You can wait hours for an ambulance to turn up over pothole filled roads.

2. You can wait years for NHS treatment.

3.You can wait years or for a trial if you are a victim of crime or a person accused of a crime.

4. Your kids can end up being educated in crumbling classrooms.

5. Where our armed forces would struggle to defend us.

6. Etc.

You can either accept that and the need to raise money to deal with those issues or can accept a continued slide into mediocrity.

Raise as much money as you like. Things won't improve.

Take the NHS. It's awash with cash. They just don't how to spend it wisely or effectively.

[Lolmorgan]

Well look at like this. We've become a country where:

1. You can wait hours for an ambulance to turn up over pothole filled roads.

2. You can wait years for NHS treatment.

3.You can wait years or for a trial if you are a victim of crime or a person accused of a crime.

4. Your kids can end up being educated in crumbling classrooms.

5. Where our armed forces would struggle to defend us.

6. Etc.

You can either accept that and the need to raise money to deal with those issues or can accept a continued slide into mediocrity.

After working for 52yrs I would like to be better off than those that have never work & don’t want to work.Howdys right start sorting the cash cows out & stop wasting money.

[KerrAvon]

Raise as much money as you like. Things won't improve.

Take the NHS. It's awash with cash. They just don't how to spend it wisely or effectively.

So it's a stick with potholes and failing public services for you?

Fair enough. Ballsy move.

[KerrAvon]

After working for 52yrs I would like to be better off than those that have never work & don’t want to work.Howdys right start sorting the cash cows out & stop wasting money.

If you've worked for 52 years, I'd be astounded if you aren't better off than those that have never work & don’t want to work.

Benefits up by 1.7%. Pensions by 4.1%

Which waste do you have in mind?

[Yak]

We won’t raise taxes it will be funded through growth.
They’ve just raised taxes and Labour have just confirmed this slows down the short and medium term growth targets.
Why didn’t they tell us they were going to raise taxes in the build up to the general election?

[KerrAvon]

We won’t raise taxes it will be funded through growth.
They’ve just raised taxes and Labour have just confirmed this slows down the short and medium term growth targets.
Why didn’t they tell us they were going to raise taxes in the build up to the general election?

So I was right in my prediction about how your day would go?

They did not say that they would not raise taxes making your question pointless. They said that they would not raise income tax or employee’s national insurance. They haven’t.

How would you achieve growth without investment? 14 years of under investment doesn’t seem to have done it.

P.s. before you go off on one of your tirades because I've corrected you and asked a question. I’m not particularly happy without they way things are turning out. I think they painted themselves into a corner with their NI and Income Tax promise.

[Yak]

So I was right in my prediction about how your day would go?

They did not say that they would not raise taxes making your question pointless. They said that they would not raise income tax or employee’s national insurance. They haven’t.

How would you achieve growth without investment? 14 years of under investment doesn’t seem to have done it.

P.s. before you go off on one of your tirades because I've corrected you and asked a question. I’m not particularly happy without they way things are turning out. I think they painted themselves into a corner with their NI and Income Tax promise.

What tirade Kerr ?
I’ve contributed to the thread.
Do you now qualify who’s annoyed and who’s not ? You have no idea but state it as a fact to try and prove a tedious point scoring exercise.
I’m not annoyed I’m asking a question as are a lot of more intelligent people than me on the tv.
You can spin your answer about the tax situation how you want like I said on sky tv the labour MPs are trying to justify it by saying that they wouldn’t increases taxes by saying they didn’t know the true picture so difficult decisions have had to be made including going back on the tax rise situation.
Are you saying them labour mps are now wrong too?