Hatterlovesbrighton
something clever
Not least becasuse most of them will get pretty big redundancy payments and pretty big periods of notice
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Government Spending Review.
- Thread starter Mellor 3 Ward 4
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Not least becasuse most of them will get pretty big redundancy payments and pretty big periods of notice
Nice C & P, what next? JFK's speach to the nation?
Iggle Piggle
Well-known member
- Sep 3, 2010
- 5,797
Anyone listening to this (It's on 5 live and probably on the telly).
Home Office let off (6% cuts) due to counter terrorism
6 billion off Whitehall admin (double the target). Looks like they want to rationalise sites reading between the lines
Police need to be most cost effective but didn't say what
Basically keeps mentioning 40% tax payers and how they are going to be screwed.
Home Office let off (6% cuts) due to counter terrorism
6 billion off Whitehall admin (double the target). Looks like they want to rationalise sites reading between the lines
Police need to be most cost effective but didn't say what
Basically keeps mentioning 40% tax payers and how they are going to be screwed.
Iggle Piggle
Well-known member
- Sep 3, 2010
- 5,797
Banks up now. Permanent levy on banks which will get a load of money but no detail.
HMRC : bigger budgets to get benefit cheats.
All very populist so far but no major headlines to report
HMRC : bigger budgets to get benefit cheats.
All very populist so far but no major headlines to report
simonsimon
New member
- Dec 31, 2004
- 692
Retirement age raised to 66
sten_super
Brain Surgeon
All very unsurprising with the exception of the retirement age, but that will have no impact on spending in this parliament. I thought he did pretty well, dressed it all up quite nicely and the opposition were looking pretty peeved by the end!
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
- 21,636
Train fares rise 3% above inflation. 
Iggle Piggle
Well-known member
- Sep 3, 2010
- 5,797
This is the BBC's view on the headlines
The key announcements:
About 490,000 public sector jobs likely to be lost
Average 19% four-year cut in departmental budgets
Structural deficit to be eliminated by 2015
£7bn in additional welfare budget cuts
Police funding cut by 4% a year
Retirement age to rise from 65 to 66 by 2020
NHS budget protected; £2bn extra for social care
Schools budget to rise every year until 2015
£30bn capital spending on transport
Permanent bank levy
The key announcements:
About 490,000 public sector jobs likely to be lost
Average 19% four-year cut in departmental budgets
Structural deficit to be eliminated by 2015
£7bn in additional welfare budget cuts
Police funding cut by 4% a year
Retirement age to rise from 65 to 66 by 2020
NHS budget protected; £2bn extra for social care
Schools budget to rise every year until 2015
£30bn capital spending on transport
Permanent bank levy
Hatterlovesbrighton
something clever
Johnson was awful. Sounded like he had done no prep whatsoever and resorted to defending the last Government.
NS Herald
Well-known member
I thought he was highly entertaining. He may now know much about economics but he has a wicked sense of humour
I thought he was highly entertaining. He may now know much about economics but he has a wicked sense of humour
Yup,that just about sums up Labour's economic policy!
I tried to, but just couldn't bear it, as it [as with any other commons debate] turned into a pathetic, juvenile pantomime.
"So in esscence what we are trying to do is be fair"
*hear, hear. Hoorah. Lots of back-slapping*
"We all have to share the burden"
*boo, boooooo, "Rubbish" liars, boo"
"He's behind you"
*oh, no he isn't*
etc
etc
Pathetic, childish twats.
Get on with discussing things in a sensible grown up manner, and just perhaps there would be a few minutes left at the end of each commons session to actually get a bit more done.
Tesco in Disguise
Where do we go from here?
i never get the feeling that johnson is in command of what he's saying, which is a bit embarrassing.
but saying that the tories had just done what a lot of them joined politics to do was BANG ON.
but saying that the tories had just done what a lot of them joined politics to do was BANG ON.
sten_super
Brain Surgeon
I never bother to listen to Commons 'debates' for this reason, but made an exception today as it was so significant (from a professional standpoint). It was even worse than I remember, I can't believe how pathetic the whole lot of them are. Seeing CMD and Clegg mouthing/gesticulating at the opposition benches (who I'm sure were doing it right back at them) made them look about 6 years old.
Johnson's reply was sometimes funny, but lacked any substance really. It may be the case, as Osborne kept saying, that Labour don't really have a plan for the economy.
It's quite sad to see that such an important announcement was often interrupted by heckling of MPs to which The Speaker had to interject and call for order. Before PMQs (Cabinet questions) many of the audience where just happily chatting away with no regard for what was happening and interrupting proceedings.
To quote Raleigh, of The Apprentice fame, "It was shameful".
It's quite sad to see that such an important announcement was often interrupted by heckling of MPs to which The Speaker had to interject and call for order. Before PMQs (Cabinet questions) many of the audience where just happily chatting away with no regard for what was happening and interrupting proceedings.
To quote Raleigh, of The Apprentice fame, "It was shameful".
And you know this do you?
I work in the Public Sector and face the prospect of the dole along with my wife and I can guarantee you that we wont be leaving with massive payouts.
Going from 2 income to zero wont be a barrel of laughs either
Do me a favour? Check your facts.
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF...+buddy.+And+then+tell+me+its+the+easy+option.
that link, is a google of my "C and P", tell me what that top link is? Tell me what other results show up?