- VAT increase - 20%!
- Public sector pay freeze
- Child benefit frozen
- Housing benefit cuts
- Disability Living Allowance cuts
- Tax cut for lowest paid
- Two year council tax freeze
- Capital Gains Tax increased
- Bank levy
- NI tax holiday for job creation outside South-East of England
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Last edited by Kongster; 22-06-2010, 17:29.Tags: None
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Its all lies of course, before the election the tories said they'd save 6 billion in waste in the public sector, now its 2 billion in service cuts this year, plus the lib dems savaged the tories about putting up VAT , but now in government its ok, dont see much taxation of the rich of course.
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Originally posted by PeteJ View PostPay freeze is pretty sucky but it could have been worse.
That said, the freeze is effectively a paycut when you factor in the increased cost of living that will come about from some of the other measures (if nothing else, the VAT rise).
And that's not withstanding a 25% squeeze on budgets for everything except the NHS. By the end of this year there's going to be a lot of front line public sector workers out of jobs (because the Chief Execs on ?120,000+ sure as hell won't take a pay cut) and things will be looking grim.
I honestly believe that parts of this country will be in recession, if not by the end of this year, then certainly in the first quarter of 2011.
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Originally posted by Spatial101 View PostThis. I was expecting them to actually cut pay.
That said, the freeze is effectively a paycut when you factor in the increased cost of living that will come about from some of the other measures (if nothing else, the VAT rise).
And that's not withstanding a 25% squeeze on budgets for everything except the NHS. By the end of this year there's going to be a lot of front line public sector workers out of jobs (because the Chief Execs on ?120,000+ sure as hell won't take a pay cut) and things will be looking grim.
I honestly believe that parts of this country will be in recession, if not by the end of this year, then certainly in the first quarter of 2011.
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I'm in the public sector and our funding has been taken away, meaning we have to find a way to pay ourselves after April. I just hope I can jump ship before then.
If I can't get a job with the Mrs. I'm just going to drop the gym, go back to both WoW and FFXI, and become a doley bum stoner bastard on one meal a day... unless I can somehow get into Uni and wing a degree, which might be hard considering I'm 30 in March.
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I'm tired of hearing people saying it's all the bankers' fault. Banks didn't run up the WHOLE deficits of governments. Of course there are the bailouts of some banks but what about the rest of the deficit? Try looking at Labour spunking all our money up the wall and giving it to doleys not the banks.
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