The Budget.

MisterMuncher · **Joined:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:19 am **Posts:** 964

Anyone seeing anything more to it than a few meagre crumbs (Tax-free allowance, penny of fuel) already swallowed by previous rises? Apart from some big-sounding but ultimately minimal populist crap about taxing oil firms and private jets.

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:52 pm

Same old crap. Loved Milliband's 'he's just Norman Lamont with an i-pod' quote. Be interested in how the leftist blogs disassemble Gideon's sums as they did last time.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:59 pm

I have to say it's great fun fishing on HYS at the moment, the DM types are in a right frenzy because I dropped into the conversation that Ed Balls would be chancellor by next year. They don't like it up 'em!

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:16 pm

AOB · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:38 pm

Quote:

239. At 14:24pm on 23rd Mar 2011, Richard Littlejohn ate my Scotch Egg wrote:

Labour made us ill and the Coalition is trying to cure us.

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In the Dr Mengele way, presumably.

Got to be someone from here.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:47 pm

Guilty as charged, m'lud.

I did think of saying Dr. Shipman but Mengele is a funnier name, and most of that lot probably wouldn't get the reference

mattomac · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:53 pm

Have to say Miliband impressed me alot, answered alot, showed the budget up to half arsed and laid the petrol vote winning policy to bed when highlighting how much VAT had put it up by.

George Osbourne's snarled and annoyed expression spoke a thousand words.

visage · **Joined:** Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:05 pm **Posts:** 318

Uh oh...

Remember back in the debates when the Tories accused Labour of scaremongering over planms to cut winter fuel allowances:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8638961.stm

I assume they'll now apologise....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12846318

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:54 pm

Nah. They were forced to do it because Labour left no money in the piggybank. Despite Gideon finding enough down the back of the sofa to soften the corporation tax cut and ease off on fuel taxes.

Beaker will be along shortly to explain it to us, and then patronise us royally.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 2:31 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Nah. They were forced to do it because Labour left no money in the piggybank. Despite Gideon finding enough down the back of the sofa to soften the corporation tax cut and ease off on fuel taxes.

And send some expensive missiles down on Libya

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 2:49 pm

How could I forget our Great Leader's greatest foreign policy triumph?

Picklechu2 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:01 pm **Posts:** 658

Fuck me.. Alexander was on PM last night and opened with "because of the mess that Labour left us with" to which I lost the plot while driving...

Change the fucking record.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 4:03 pm

Beaker is almost the worst. It's hard to know who has the more slappable face, him or Gideon. I wouldn't piss down his throat if his tonsils were on fire. Brainless, patronising, lying, arseing bucket of Nº 7s.

crabcakes_windermere · **Joined:** Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:56 pm **Posts:** 2089

Credit where credit is due - looks like they're going to simplify and speed up the steps needed to get a clinical trial underway. Which science-wise is good news.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7419

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Beaker is almost the worst. It's hard to know who has the more slappable face, him or Gideon. I wouldn't piss down his throat if his tonsils were on fire. Brainless, patronising, lying, arseing bucket of Nº 7s.

Time to get off that comfy fence and tell us what you really think.

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