What a great budget!!

[Churchill]

£5k better off!!!

ShaunBhoy in "God bless Family Allowance" mode!

[PAH]

f*****ng pensioners!!!

My granny gets the winter fuel payment and she says it's already more than she needs to pay her bills. She's actually got more disposable income than my parents seeing as she's over 80 and in a council bungalow with everything apart from food paid for.

I suppose it's only fair those that struggled through the second world war enjoy some perks in their old age. There will be none of that for us lot I'm sure.

[MrRobin]

OK, my bad, it doesn't take dividends as fully taxable. You're better off if you take divvies up to or over the basic rate threshold, because the threshold has gone up.

NI due goes down because the personal tax free allowance has gone up.

If you smoke 60 a day, you're £75 worse off a year. Hardly the biggest incentive is it?

[MrRobin]

£5k better off!!!

ShaunBhoy in "God bless Family Allowance" mode!

You have 20 children??

[Churchill]

You have 20 children??

ShaunBhoy in "God bless Family Allowance" mode!

Well, every sperm is sacred!

[KathyWoolfe]

£7k better off apparently - as long as I keep working in my present contract until the next budget!

[Marina]

[..] I suppose it's only fair those that struggled through the second world war enjoy some perks in their old age. There will be none of that for us lot I'm sure.

I don't see why not, when we've struggled through two gulf wars and an Afghan campaign for starters.

And some of us are old enough to remember being blitzed non-stop for weeks by headlines about the Falklands War. So give us middle-aged generation a break - we've done our bit!

[ratewhore]

I don't see why not, when we've struggled through two gulf wars and an Afghan campaign for starters.

And some of us are old enough to remember being blitzed non-stop for weeks by headlines about the Falklands War. So give us middle-aged generation a break - we've done our bit!

I was in the last year of primary school in 1982. We had a map of the Falklands on the wall and each morning we would stick pins in the map to show the British advance.

Somehow, I can't see schools doing that these days...

[shaunbhoy]

You have 20 children??

Nowhere near. You'll have to forgive churchill, the process of reproduction is something that is beyond his comprehension you see. His family have yet to discover sexual intercourse, preferring to prolong the family line by raiding warthog litters. Might go some way to explaining why his wives keep leaving him and he is forced to take solace in ever more impractical cars.

HTH

[KathyWoolfe]

I was in the last year of primary school in 1982. We had a map of the Falklands on the wall and each morning we would stick pins in the map to show the British advance.

Somehow, I can't see schools doing that these days...

non-PC for a start. I'm sure there's no maps up on the walls of school classrooms depicting the "war" in Iraq.