The Budget....

Not at all Sid, I'm saying that me being a 'computer commando' is not accurate. Implying that I would only say this on the internet and not to the person. I was giving my reasoning as to why I see it as no problem saying it face to face.

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

Are you suggesting fisticuffs will ensue as a result of this thread?

I'd lock this thread before it becomes a slagging match.

Maggie did things wrong, Labour have done things wrong.

She sold/ privatised all the industries that are making offensive amounts of money. Gordon sold the national gold reserves

Originally Posted by andrewsmith

I'd lock this thread before it becomes a slagging match.

Nooooo, it's just getting interesting

I don't remember them making that much money when they were sold though

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by bluefishman

I don't remember them making that much money when they were sold though

gold or industries?

Both were let go for buttons

Careful Smithers. You're only a couple of years older than me. You didn't live through it.

Industry

[Stingo]

Although the fuel duty is going down by a penny, the oil companies are going to have some extra tax slammed on them. Reading between the lines I imagine that when the oil companies hike the price of oil to the consumer to compensate for the additional tax burden on them, the government will be able to shrug theirsholders and say something like "Well, we put the tax down, it's the oil companies to blame" or something similar I imagine.

On the one hand, there are giveaways of £1.9m to car drivers from the cancellation of the fuel duty rises and a cut of 1p from April 2011, and to companies, from the decrease in the main corporation tax rate and the reform of the CFC rules. On the other hand, these are being paid for by oil companies (new tax rate while oil prices are so high), banks (an increase to the bank levy), footballers and some executives (the disguised remuneration anti-avoidance rules) and polluters (the carbon price floor).

http://www.ukbudget.com/UKBudget2011...1-overview.cfm

Originally Posted by Reeder

Careful Smithers. You're only a couple of years older than me. You didn't live through it.

But he's seen Billy Elliot, or is, not sure

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by Reeder

Careful Smithers. You're only a couple of years older than me. You didn't live through it.

I know I am mate.

I'm from one of the areas that was pulled to pieces by Thatcher, my folks were on strike several times in the 70's and 80's so conservative is akin with voting for lucifer.