observer Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Hit or a Miss? No real pain for the Plebs, unless your a public sector worker, and even a rise in some benefits (to be clawed back the following year AFTER the Election!). A tax rise for all via increased NI contributions, but threats against greedy bankers, just to ease our minds. After all, "we're all in this together"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 As one commentator pointed out on radio 4 last night, the banks can just defer the bonus until next year and won't get taxed on it or take it as a pay rise and pay less tax that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kennedy Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 I was hoping to benefit from the old boiler scrappage scheme .......Alas not, mine is not inefficient enough to qualify. No doubt that boiler companies will do what car manufacturers did and raise prices to exploit this scheme. Interestingly I'm told that modern condensing boilers are not that reliable, nor do they have a particularly long lifespan. Pre Budget Report, all a non event really as the current Chancellor won't be presenting a Budget ever again. Just wondering if this PBR increases the likelihood of an Election on 25th March. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted December 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Seems about right Baz; defer bonuses until the Tories get in, then let rip! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Seems about right Baz; defer bonuses until the Tories get in, then let rip! Personally I would rather a banker gets his bonus than a doley chav gets a rise in benefits in line with inflation. I don't see Brown cutting benefits so that we ALL help to combat the recession!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted December 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Slight difference between a few bob for a Chav doley, especially at a time when non-chavs are joining the jobs queue; than a ?million in one's back pocket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Slight difference between a few bob for a Chav doley, especially at a time when non-chavs are joining the jobs queue; than a ?million in one's back pocket. But you are taking the line that EVERY banker on a bonus will get a million pounds..... not quite true. And yes there are non chav doleys, but the ones that are there shouldn't get a rise. In fact I would have them out licking the moss of the tarmac before I would give them a penny! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted December 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Guess you'd sooner have them mugging pensioners and filling our prisons then?! How does any "banker" qualify for a bonus, when they would all be out of a job, due to their own greedy incompetance, if the tax-payers hadn't bailed them out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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