The Official Autumn Budget Thread 2021

[eek]

You really don't want an exciting budget. Can't say a boring voice is something I would associate with Rishi. This Reeves lady on the other hand is like fingernails on a chalk board.

Seemed reasonable, which probably means all the bad stuff is in the small print.

Can't see that much on a quick glance of the small print which is at Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021: documents - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

[SueEllen]

You really don't want an exciting budget. Can't say a boring voice is something I would associate with Rishi. This Reeves lady on the other hand is like fingernails on a chalk board.

No need to be unkind. Like Ed Miliband she was thrown into do the response at the last minute.

Unlike Ed Miliband, she sounds nervous.

[d000hg]

No need to be unkind. Like Ed Miliband she was thrown into do the response at the last minute.

Unlike Ed Miliband, she sounds nervous.

I don't mind being called on her being nervous - it sounds as if they only knew about an hour beforehand she had to do it.
But when you've criticised Rishi's voice, isn't it a tad hypocritical to say I'm being unkind criticising hers?

I suppose it's the job when responding to the Budget to sound very very negative but quips about millionaires drinking sparking wine on short-haul flights seem like she's reaching and bitter, especially when you consider help for pubs, brewers and hospitality is going to be hugely popular.

[eek]

I don't mind being called on her being nervous - it sounds as if they only knew about an hour beforehand she had to do it.
But when you've criticised Rishi's voice, isn't it a tad hypocritical to say I'm being unkind criticising hers?

I suppose it's the job when responding to the Budget to sound very very negative but quips about millionaires drinking sparking wine on short-haul flights seem like she's reaching and bitter, especially when you consider help for pubs, brewers and hospitality is going to be hugely popular.

It's a difficult job identifying things to complain about (and make a joke out of) when you only have the speech to work from.

Responding to a budget is about the hardest job in politics. Even if you are third to speak you get a chance to search for things to comment on but the actual paperwork is only published after the Chancellor sits down.

[d000hg]

It's a difficult job identifying things to complain about (and make a joke out of) when you only have the speech to work from.

Responding to a budget is about the hardest job in politics. Even if you are third to speak you get a chance to search for things to comment on but the actual paperwork is only published after the Chancellor sits down.

It's probably even harder when/if some of the things might be half-decent. I suppose then you get the "stealing our ideas" option though.

[vetran]

FTFY

Sadly it seems some women are so deranged they feel unable to resist a bit of Boris.

You may have detected the sarcasm.

[vetran]

To be fair the figures look a lot better than I expected.

Dishi Rishi seems to have avoided a melt down.

[TheDude]

"And Mr Speaker, we now come to Ltd company directors and we've given then a right kicking in the past 10 years. And I'm delighted to announce that this year will be no different."

Plus ça change.

qh

I feel sorry for those contractors who had to make their spouses redundant when they were forced inside IR35 - that tax free allowance paid for a couple of ski holidays per year.

[d000hg]

Sadly it seems some women are so deranged they feel unable to resist a bit of Boris.

You may have detected the sarcasm.

Actually, apparently they really do from hearing people who've met him talk. Some sort of magnetism that clearly doesn't come across on camera!

[Gibbon]

Actually, apparently they really do from hearing people who've met him talk. Some sort of magnetism that clearly doesn't come across on camera!

Power is an aphrodisiac in its self. Wit, power, money are the fugly man's good genes in the good looking sense.