Budget

Good on you , why the devil not !!!

Nonu don't know weither to be flattered or flattened ?
Its not a very nice thought though is it stating that the parents may not be alive in a few weeks,you certainly have a very low sort of respect for other people's lives.

Frank is nothing if not matter-of-fact about these things!

glammanana

I have agreed to sit in on a few meetings now and sadly when the time came the patient had died.
These people were expected to only have about 6 months to live about 10 months ago.

Frank

I'll be matter of fact Frank and just let you know that excessive blood donations can scar your veins which you mine need access to in your old age. age cut off is 75 in the US. Have you ever looked at those needles? Like drinking straws,well not really but close!!! I was a nurse if I seem to come across as a "know it all"

I mean might need. Sorry.

Hallelujah ! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Someone has actually "died" not p assed away.

I like assed away!

Me too!

Same here, but it "oddly enough" it really does seem that someone in Frank's world did die.

To reply to the reasonably sensible op - I will be about 400 pounds a year better off after 6th April as my two Government Service pensions will rise by 2.2% and my state retirement pension by 2.5% with very little increase in income tax as I get two personal allowances - one in the UK and one in France. I am not complaining, even though they fiddled with the RPI to stop us getting 2.6%. on public sector pensions. Bearing in mind how many people have lost their job, live in fear of losing it, or have had a pay freeze, I feel we older people have done quite well.

What I find annoying Greatnan is various papers publish figures on how much the council pensions are costing the council tax payers.
In my case I worked for the council for 5 years and paid nearly 40% of my salary in to the pension scheme to buy additional years of service.
I have been advised that the council count it as a cost but it is not a cost as I have in effect deposited the money so it can be repaid to me as pension over time.

Frank

Businesses categorise things as assets and liabilities, anything that involves paying out money is classed as a liability/cost.

And it does make a difference to the balance at the bottom of the council's accounts - if that money is promised to you it won't be available to spend on something else. The council would look as though it were rolling in unspent money if it did not list pensions as money spent.

I agree with Greatnan, get back to the OP for heavens sake.

The 1p off the pint of beer and the cancellation of the Beer Escalator was good news for the brewing industry. Had this not happened, beer would have increased by about 5p to 6p a pint in the pubs and clubs, who are already struggling. It was certainly welcomed too by the micro breweries and CAMRA.

The fact there was hardly any coverage of the budget after the event, other than the housing policy, meant it was O.K., as budgets go.

I am sick and tired of the media, especially the b----y BBC having a go at every turn and running the country down. I wish they would all give as much attention to 'good' news and figures as they do to the bad.

POGS As the price of malt has risen recently, the price of beer will or already has gone up. Successive governments have increased the tax on beer over a long period of time and I cannot see that a 1p per pint reduction in tax now will do anything to halt the steady closure of pubs (and clubs) across the country.

absent

It wasn't the fact 1p tax was taken off a pint, the beer escalator was cancelled as well.

It does sound trite when only the 1p off a pint is continually 'scoffed' at I agree. When you point out the alternative could have meant 5p or 6p put on a pint then the value of the budget decision becomes more relevant. That's why it was welcomed by the industry.

As for the cost of malt rising, it does not neccessarily follow pubs and clubs will increase their cost to the customer. My local club and others keep the cost of beer as low as they can, the money is made on wines, spirits and sundries plus room hire etc. Pubs will close sadly I agree but the discussion was about the Budget and it's detail.

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