The Budget...gone A Bit Quiet In Lefty Land.

[ToraToraTora]

Sunak is wiping the floor with Reeves and her attempt at a budget. Oh dear!

[naomi24]

I've recorded it.  I'll watch it this afternoon.

[sandyRoe]

A reduction in the price of beer and an increase in the minimum wage.  Honest hard-working people will be happy.

[ToraToraTora]

....er what about the £20bn increase in NI? that's going to hurt.

[Clone]

A reduction in the price of beer and an increase in the minimum wage.  Honest hard-working people will be happy.

 

 

Aye, that'll save me about 15p on Sunday.

[sandyRoe]

Various parts of the fabric of our society need fixing.  Can't be done without money.

What's the saying?  If it's not hurting it's not working?

[ToraToraTora]

...they just borrowed gazillions which means more interest which mean less money. 6 th form economics from labour as usual. Our interest bill is already double the entire defence budget.

[Deskdiary]

Employers' NIC increase of 1.2 percentage points plus a reduction in the threshold at which it becomes payable from £9.1k to £5k. I guess that means people in the private sector will not be getting much in the way of payrises then (won't affect the public sector given the increase will be refunded).

[ToraToraTora]

That will cut jobs and wage rises in the public sector. It may not show in pay slips but in the end the consumer pays.

[naomi24]

Isn't she tedious.

[theshedman]

How can a party that has complained about Tory tax rises for years then come into power saying they will not put up taxes then go and put them up by the most for over 30 years.

[Peter Pedant]

o come on! if sunak ever wiped the floor with anything then he wd have won the General Election ( he didnt)

[Mozz71]

Pretty sure Sunak couldn't wipe the floor if you gave him a mop and bucket.

[gramps85]

Tories lost the election because people fell for Starmers lies, which have now been well and truly exposed. Sunak not only wiped the floor with Reeves, but exposed her for what she is, totally uncompetent.

[gramps85]

incompetent

[douglas9401]

The right wing aren't exactly taxing the servers at AB Towers either which suggests either nor too bad a budget or nobody wants to play with the bully of the 6th.

[Atheist]

I think the budget speech was far too complex for an average ABer to have an intelligent idea of what it was all about. Thank god we've got 'end of' to reassure us that non-tories are all traitors and that any labour proposals are by definition stupid: the definition of 'stupid' being not coming up to the intelligence level of 'end of'.

End of, luv.

[Rosetta]

^^^average ABers are all a bit thick then atheist. Charming!!

[Atheist]

Rosetta. What's your view of the budget speech (I mean the content, not Reevesy's stagecraft)?

[Togo]

Investment, investment, investment, was the message then. In the civil service and public sector. The returns will be guaranteed future votes and a bigger machine to control the philistines. More lucre for the "devolved" of course as well. The sooner England leaves the corrupt union the better for them. 

[naomi24]

Mr Sunak, an impressive performance.  Very well said!