Autumn statement today ...... hero’s or villains?

[lost in london]

nearly 12b in overseas aid not to be touched
help the people at home first

£16.3bn by the end of the parliament

 

[lost in london]

Ditto

People would be amazed if they realised how few police there are available to respond to 999 calls at any given time. Particularly if you live in certain areas of the county (and I'm not talking about small villages here but a few, fairly decent sized towns that no longer have any police based within a twenty minute drive).

But on we go! G4S can do plenty of the work instead. Which should boost the value of Theresa May's husband's shares no end #Together

Police budget not being cut. Allegedly.

 

[JC Footy Genius]

Police budget protected.

The grown ups have finished speaking time to switch off.

 

[Mackenzie]

Well that will come as a relief to the countries low paid workers. I'm not sure what prompted the turn about, but it's very welcome.

 

[sydney]

:middlefinger:ricks:

 

[Vegas Seagull]

A new stamp duty rate for people buying homes as buy to let will be 3% higher than normal stamp duty - like that. Hopefully another nail in the buy to let coffin.

Anyone that has one has made 7% this & last & ....
With levels reduced recently at the lower end that BTL usually is prob only putting back near to couple of years back. Fund raiser more like speed cameras

 

[lost in london]

Anyone that has one has made 7% this & last & ....
With levels reduced recently at the lower end that BTL usually is prob only putting back near to couple of years back. Fund raiser more like speed cameras

Sorry, don't understand any of that!

 

[Man of Harveys]

Well that will come as a relief to the countries low paid workers. I'm not sure what prompted the turn about, but it's very welcome.

Simple political pressure, no doubt, including plenty from his own side. As you say, a very welcome U-turn but one which makes you question how on earth it took so long for that particular penny to drop.

And I'm sure that a similar U-turn from Labour would be met with total equanimity by the Tory press. Of course.

 

[alfredmizen]

Would the nasty party take aid from starving Africans?

I would, I dont glory in these peoples suffering and feel sorry for them , but charity begins at home , let someone else take up the burden for once , weve done enough .

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Shambles of a response, claiming victories on all that was said, needs some cough medicine and a good lie down

 

[Chicken Run]

Oh well thread closed, now let's get back to work people[emoji3]

 

[Smirko]

McDonnell is all over the place, not inspiring at all

 

[Igzilla]

I would, I dont glory in these peoples suffering and feel sorry for them , but charity begins at home , let someone else take up the burden for once , weve done enough .

I'd rather cut subsidies from the oil and gas industry than cut overseas aid. As another poster said, if you remove soft power, what's left is hard, and that's not a viable foreign policy. Even if one is cynical and believes 95% is pocketed by politicians before it reaches the starving poor, it's still a lever the British Government can use to exert influence.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

A new stamp duty rate for people buying homes as buy to let will be 3% higher than normal stamp duty - like that. Hopefully another nail in the buy to let coffin.

Should be higher, but I'll accept that.

 

[Bozza]

And I'm sure that a similar U-turn from Labour would be met with total equanimity by the Tory press. Of course.

I've not see how the Labour press have responded so far. Are you suggesting it's all very grown-up and sensible, congratulating the Chancellor for being brave enough to reverse a previous decision? I look forward to this welcome seed change if so.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

The numbers don't add up so far, there must be a hidden revenue raising device somewhere in there.

Exactly what I'm thinking. He's allocating more money to the NHS. He's changed his mind on the cuts to tax credits. He's not cutting the police budgets.

So what's the bombshell? What have we missed so far that's going to fill the gap?

Absolutely stunned that he's not slashing police budgets, for what it's worth, as is just about everybody else I've spoken to at work. We were led to believe a reduction in officer numbers from 120,000 to around 80,000 over the next few years was on the cards (yes, I know they like to leak that sort of stuff so that whatever is eventually announced looks like a massive bonus). The cynic in me suspects that even Osborne was concerned about the public reaction if he was seen to be cutting budgets to the police and security services whilst the terrorist threat is so high.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I've not see how the Labour press have responded so far. Are you suggesting it's all very grown-up and sensible, congratulating the Chancellor for being brave enough to reverse a previous decision? I look forward to this welcome seed change if so.

It won't take very long to check out tomorrow's Guardian on the matter. Checking all the Tory papers would, of course, take rather longer.

 

[glasfryn]

Mao's little red book
master stroke

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Does his U-Turn involve abandoning the new National "Living Wage" that was due to be introduced in April 2016?

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Anyone that has one has made 7% this & last & ....

Precisely. The whole property as middle class wealth provider is the biggest politically motivated economic outrage of our lifetime. The horse bolted a long time ago. Putting 3% on new BTL purchases is carefully judged to achieve next to nothing apart from giving Tories something to bray about.