What will you spend your extra �120 on?

[jake-the-peg]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7397705 .stm

I imagine though that many of the Tory supporters on here will be so disgusted with the cynicism that they'll be donating theirs to charity!

Tell us which charity you'll be donating yours to!

[Lonnie]

Thing is, this Goverment is full of con merchants, and they're still at it.

[sp1214]

I think I heard this is a temporary measure to cover this tax
year only.

[stokemaveric]

can someone name ALL the taxes we pay in this country?

[ludwig]

Why don't you tell us your opinion of this whole 10p fiasco Jake? As a left winger, do you think it's right that a labour government should have increased taxes on the lowest earners?

[LoftyLottie]

As a state pensioner aged between 60 and 65 and unable to qualify for the higher personal allowance for pensioners until I reach 65, I am still out of pocket. I have worked hard for 40+ years and feel physically sick when I think of this present government.

[LoftyLottie]

If anybody had told me 20 years ago that a Labour Government would penalise poorest in the land I would have laughed!

[jno]

I shall put it into the petty cash tin.

In fact it all seems to have been not a wicked stealth tax but lousy maths: apparently Brown really didn't think the poor would lose out, but he got his sums wrong. The policy can't simply be 'reversed' - the whole point of budgets is that they give the whole country, and indeed anyone anywhere who has money in this country, advance notice of what their liabilities will be. Changing it without notice would throw the financial system into chaos. So they've tweaked the system at the edges to give people the money back. This is as much as anyone can expect (given that the whole thing was a mistake from the start).

[LoftyLottie]

Brilliant eh jno, a Prime Minister (who is an ex Chancellor) who can't do sums. When it was first announced that the 10% tax would be scrapped, using simply arithmetic. even a simple soul such as I sussed outstraight away that a lot of low wage earners and pensioners would suffer! (including myself).

Mistakes such as this can't be forgiven when you are running a counntry.

Bl**dy marvellous Government we've got.

[shaneystar2]

People who get their sums wrong shouldn't be in charge of financial matters then . If Mr S had cocked up at work during his lifetime of budgets,financial spreadsheets and corporate waffle he would have been hauled over the coals by his company and clients . In a way we are clients too...of an incompetent Chancellor .
They are borrowing the money anyway to finance it Robbing Peter to pay Paul ...and if Crewe shoot them in the foot ..then well done Crewe.
Their by election results were poor and this is a last ditch vote buyer .
Up the revolution ...where's Woolfie when you need him ....

[naomi24]

But there are still over 1 million people who will not get their money back. What about them? If the 10p tax band cannot be reinstated now, then perhaps the chancellor will see fit to reinstate it in the next budget - but I don't think anyone should hold their breath. A chancellor - especially one who has been so long in office - has no business getting his sums wrong - and if anyone believes he did, then they'll believe anything. Die-hard Labour supporters will make every excuse in the book for the debacle that is this government, but there can be no excuse for this. It's all in a name, isn't it, but this is not a Labour government. It is a government that is doing its best to hoodwink the electorate by concealing its true nature under a Labour banner, and in the process it is bleeding the ordinary working man dry. This is a government that is not fit for office - with a Prime Minister to match.

[LoftyLottie]

It would all be laughable if it wasn't so serious.

[LoftyLottie]

Shaneystar, you made me laugh when I read about the revolution and 'Wolfie'. I immediately thought of the mother calling him 'Foxy'. That was a brilliant comedy!!

[naomi24]

Maybe it's time people did take it more seriously - and going by recent disastrous electorial results, perhaps they are. Time to 'wake up and smell the coffee', as they say.

[naomi24]

I loved Foxy!!

[DrFilth]

naomi24 you only said that so your name would not end up in his little red book (for after the revolution )

[shaneystar2]

And .. a short grumpy old woman moan ..I didn't vote in the recent by elections. .First time ever since I gained my majority .I have always voted even when not in the country when I voted by proxy or postal vote .Not only was there no choice ..just Con or Lab in my area ( no Lib Dem bothered to show up ) and not an Independent or Greenie to be seen . Not even a Monster Raving Loonie .I was disillusioned and completely apathetic . In hindsight I should have just gone to the polling station and written "Waste of my time " across my ballot paper .We may as well give the government a direct debit for our hard earned and they can give us some pocket money for day to day living . But I daresay we would have to pay tax on that if we dared to waste it on essentials !

[DrFilth]

shaneystar2 what would happen if nobody voted ie joe blog (tory) 5 votes joe blog (labour) 5 votes,

[shaneystar2]

Lol...Power to the People !

[LoftyLottie]

Frustration of getting nowhere unfortunately breeds apathy in the end!