The Budget

[Colin Todd]

Roll on Election day. Labour will lose by a landslide at the moment.

Their key policies at the moment seem to be

- tax the ordinary working person / family to death.
- Igonore the super rich
- pretend that inflation to the average person / family is running at 2%. It isnt. Has anyone in goverment looked at their petrol / domestic fuel / food bills recently?  have they fuck.
- give the money to the underclass of society who have little or no desire to contribute to society under the guise of "eradicating child poverty"
- wastfully spunk millions on public services that show no sign of actual improvment after 10 years of heavy investment.

Tax & spend. Its the same old Labour story.

[Arriba]

trouble is colin, i cannot see a workable alternative.the torys are a joke as are all the other parties.
we have to pick the best of a very bad bunch, and i cannot do that at the moment.
proportional representation is the only way forwwrd imo

[Colin Todd]

Ooops I forgot

- bring in a raft of new "green taxes" these are just like normal taxes but you are supposed to feel better about them.  Despite the fact that they wont change behaviour, just generate revenue. And despite the fact that the UK's carbon emmisions are just a drop in the ocean. The UK dropping its emmisons by 10% overnight would make fuck all difference on a global scale. We are a small island.

- Pretend that raising tax on beer by 4p and wine by 16p is somehow going to affect "binge drinking" culture. It wont. If you added 50p to a pint the same people would go out at the weekend and fight, vandalise etc. Its pure revenue generation.

ARRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH   WANKERS!  :evil:

[ghanimah]

Roll on Election day. Labour will lose by a landslide at the moment.

Their key policies at the moment seem to be

- tax the ordinary working person / family to death.
- Igonore the super rich
- pretend that inflation to the average person / family is running at 2%. It isnt. Has anyone in goverment looked at their petrol / domestic fuel / food bills recently?  have they fuck.
- give the money to the underclass of society who have little or no desire to contribute to society under the guise of "eradicating child poverty"
- wastfully spunk millions on public services that show no sign of actual improvment after 10 years of heavy investment.

Tax & spend. Its the same old Labour story.

Not forgetting that they blatantly lied to the British electorate by failing to hold a referendum on the EU Constitution

[genf_stfc]

Not forgetting that they blatantly lied to the British electorate by failing to hold a referendum on the EU Constitution

although I also hold those spineless abstaining shirt lifters at the Lib Dems partialy responsible for that.

I would also add royally buggering science research funding, dropping our international partners on big projects in the financial brown stuff and generally making us a laughing stock around the world .  Then wonder why there aren't many science teachers and why students don't want to do science in further education.

Oh and anually erroding the content on school curriculum's in order to artificially raise exam results to the extent that a first year degree course is what you used to do in O-levels 25 years ago (sorry for anyone at school/college at the moment, its not your fault !).  Forcing as many kiddies as possible into irrelevant degrees, making then pay a grand a year for the priveledge before setting them up for a careeer in a call centre, then wondering why you can only get polish brickies/plasterers/sparks etc, etc.

and invading Iraq to blatantly secure a supply of oil for the yanks - costing billions and countless lives, then let petrol go over a quid a litre anyway, piss off most of the middle east in the process and forget to buy some working guns for the poor bastard squaddies you send to deal with it.

following a disingenous twat of a leader with a fat disingenuous scottish twat and generally wasting the last ten years

[Barry Scott]

genf, war makes money. The longer the better and more profitable. It's an amusing situation because i suspect the UK economy doesn't benefit quite so much as the FED does. We may as well just post taxes to the yanks.

[Sussex]

14p on wine eh. Bastards.

[genf_stfc]

if they were really serious about binge drinking they'd put arsenic randomly in every fifth can of stella..  actually they probably would

[neville w]

they could cut taxes by huge amounts if they stopped giving hand outs to the scum of our nation.
oh but the pc brigade will keep fighting the low lives corner,whilst complaining about the cost of living.
 :evil:

Nah, most people are just trying to do there best in the world. Loads of these hand-outs are on cool stuff like child benefit. Anyway, scum floats to the top.

if people cannot afford to breed then they shouldn't be firing out kids at the rate they do, and expect the tax payer to feed and put a roof over their heads.
child benefits for the unemployed should be abolished, and help for working familys should be increased.
the balance is all wrong as it is at the moment.

You have some fair points but will get slated on here, every person in teh UK should be made to work on community projects for their dole etc

I'm with you on this Bushey

[redbullzeye]

14p on wine eh. Bastards.

This is fucking outrageous, the total cunts.

[dell boy]

14p on wine eh. Bastards.

This is fucking outrageous, the total cunts.

Not that surprising about the increase on wine, wine is dirt cheap anyway.


The increase on a pint of beer at your local pub ... well thats different, in a few years time the term 'the local' will be a thing of the past.

This country we call England ...

[pumbaa]

I was laughing so much driving home listening to David Cameron this afternoon I almost crashed  :-))(

The problems in the country are so deeply rooted in poor governments over many years. Its easy to criticise New Labour for all the problems now, but they inherited a country in a shit state after 18 years of Conservative rule.

After spending the last three years living overseas, I am so glad to be back. NOT. Frankly I wonder what is happening in this country. I have discovered so much utter incompetence and such poor customer service over the past six weeks, I am at the point of just jacking in my job and fucking off overseas again. This country sucks, and a change of leadership will be so superficial as to make no fucking difference whatsoever.

[STFCDude2]

I was laughing so much driving home listening to David Cameron this afternoon I almost crashed  :-))(

The problems in the country are so deeply rooted in poor governments over many years. Its easy to criticise New Labour for all the problems now, but they inherited a country in a shit state after 18 years of Conservative rule.

After spending the last three years living overseas, I am so glad to be back. NOT. Frankly I wonder what is happening in this country. I have discovered so much utter incompetence and such poor customer service over the past six weeks, I am at the point of just jacking in my job and fucking off overseas again. This country sucks, and a change of leadership will be so superficial as to make no fucking difference whatsoever.

:goodpost:   Same here.  After having just moved back here, I am thinking I've made a bit of a fuck up!

[Simon Pieman]

I wish you would fuck off back to America or stop winging about how everything is so shit in this country  

[pumbaa]

Unfortunately, my decision to return wasn't mine. More a case of my employer saying "Thanks, you've done your three years son, now stop wasting taxpayers money and go home". And then proceed to make my transition back to the UK (which consequently also involves a move of house within the UK) even more fucking difficult by insisting all my worldly possessions can only be moved to my house in Cambridgeshire, and not Windy Super Mare. Fucking incompetent Bean Counters  :twisted:

I'm here for 3 reasons:

1. Make the most of watching STFC.

2. Adopt children.

3. Get as much appropriate job related training (all funded by the Company) so that I become a more marketable commodity within the USA, and then fuck off back there permanently.

Its a four year plan.....and its better than anything New Labour has to offer......