Mr Darling's budget seems a bit limp!

Pigpen

I have just skimmed over the main points but seems a bit lack lustre to say the least!

What are your thoughts?

groundy

Where's the help for small businesses?:confused1:

sarahwilson

It does seem rather feeble, all the usual things going up and not much bite to the rest of it.

Jon_1984

will wait and see which car manufactorers increase their prices by £2000.00.........

LondonMatt

"Economy to grow by 3.5% annually from 2011"

:huh:

Seriously, :huh: :huh:

The man is crazy

LondonMatt

"An extra £9bn in efficiency savings is planned"

Is it me, or is this an admission that they have been wasting £9 billion for the last couple of years......£9 BILLION :ohmy:

farmergiles

LondonMatt wrote: »

Is it me, or is this an admission that they have been wasting £9 billion for the last couple of years......£9 BILLION :ohmy:

They will just make a load of civil servants redundant.........and then take them all back on as "Consultants". :001_tt2:
It'll come out of a different budget so they will be able to crow about saving £9bill on civil service

farmergiles

I can see a lot of high earners becoming "consultants" with offshore companies and offshore bank accounts, thus avoiding the punitive higher rate of tax.

CJC

farmergiles wrote: »

I can see a lot of high earners becoming "consultants" with offshore companies and offshore bank accounts, thus avoiding the punitive higher rate of tax.

Don't they do that already?

Pretty uninspiring really, though £2,000 for my old banger sounds OK. Wonder if we'll actually hear anything constructive from Osborne about what he would do for once.

Primble

why shatter my hopes of becoming a group finance director by making them personally liable? i know one thats considering retiring as the government has never helped him

A-Vic

is it me or didnt they think people with ten year olds cars have ten year old cars because they cant aford to buy new ones ??????

Buff

FORD already stated a few weeks back that they were increasing prices and their reason .. "We think it will stimulate the people into buying Ford Cars"... ermmm, ok - either you are really stupid Ford, or you think you can take the public for a ride.

Do you seriously think we didn't find it suss when you were the only manufacturer to come out and say you are increasing your proces just as the scrappage scheme came to light?

SeanyBoy

A-Vic wrote: »

is it me or didnt they think people with ten year olds cars have ten year old cars because they cant aford to buy new ones ??????

i think the idea is more along the lines of getting old cars of the road and get people buying newer cars...

lets face it the opportunity to get 2k for a car that is hardly worth 2 hundred may seem slightly appealing to some..

personally im supportive of the scheme and think it could benefit a lot of people..

CJC

I predict people in PTC exam questions will start earning over £150K in a year or so :001_tongue:

Gem7321

A-Vic wrote: »

is it me or didnt they think people with ten year olds cars have ten year old cars because they cant aford to buy new ones ??????

That's exactly what I thought vic!