The Budget.

Kreuzberger · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:02 pm

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.

First one to get the Bristol Scale into moderated comments wins a scotch egg :twisted:

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:31 pm

crabcakes_windermere wrote:

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.

That and they've stopped the nonsense of CDs being exported to Jersey and re-imported free of VAT. Apparently £200m brought in this way.

So we've two good policies in the whole thing?

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

Kreuzberger wrote:

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.

First one to get the Bristol Scale into moderated comments wins a scotch egg :twisted:

Too easy. This would fit into any columnist.

Quote:

I'd rate Peter/Melanie/Jan's comments 7 out of 7 on what boffins call the Bristol Scale.

Samanfur · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:53 pm

MisterMuncher wrote:

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.

I'm currently rather annoyed with their changes to Housing Benefit, which - by not just restricting me to the bottom 30% of rentals in terms of LHA, but restricting me to the shared room rate for social housing until after I'm 35 - has just probably kicked any chance I had of moving into my own place again in the near future to pieces.

mattomac · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2011 2:06 am

Nice to see the Budget boost lasted 3 days

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:02 am

The oil windfall tax won't last much longer. It's a nice lefty top trumps that oil companies v Osborne. It was a baffling tax because apparently you can't put a penny on tax without business decamping to Dubai. So putting 12p on tax was likely to bring forth some response.

I expect some kind of allowances for developing new fields will be quietly brought in.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2900

Will you be watching? I'm not sure I can stand it, though there's also the temptation to play Budget bingo (e.g., how many times will Osborne blame Labour)

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

The BBC have got it right:

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2900

smod · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 2:09 pm

he is ABOLISHING pensioner tax allowances meaning more will pay more taxes in the long run. Very cloak and dagger.

smod · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 2:14 pm

We're going to have the lowest corporation tax anywhere in the world in a few years.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 2:14 pm

Watching Gideon now. Just seeing Beaker there on the front bench makes me long to be present in the visitors gallery with a sten gun.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 2:18 pm

But the Sten's really inaccurate - you might hit everyone on the government front bench...

Oh...

smod · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 2:25 pm

Dropped 50p rate to 45p. Cunt.

new puritan · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 2:26 pm

smod wrote:

We're going to have the lowest corporation tax anywhere in the world in a few years.

Gideon's always been fairly open about his admiration for the Irish model, tbf.

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