Budget Day - No Need to Worry

[bogeyman]

I love the little Graph icon for 'Economy' on the checklist - which shows it plunging to zero!

[DimPrawn]

Be interesting to count how many times during the budget speech he mentions "hard working families" and "fair"

I'm willing to wager that, as greedy undesirable middle class tax evading cheats we will be saddled with new legislation and taxes to put us out of business.

[The Lone Gunman]

If |Gordon shafts us again then I think it is time for a futile gesture, for us as a group to fall on our sword.

We should get a campaign together for every single freelancer or contractor or consultant to serve notice to quit to their respective clients on a date we can all achieve and at the same time close down our businesses!

[expat]

That does it - I'm moving to Switzerland. At least you're consistently raped there.

I'm in Switzerland. I'm thinking of doing some work in the UK, if I can stand the higher taxes/road rage/queue-jumping/dirt and squalor/overpopulation etc. God knows why. Maybe to remind myself why I left. As they always said of the USA, interesting place to visit, but I don't know if I'd want to live there.

[expat]

If |Gordon shafts us again then I think it is time for a futile gesture, for us as a group to fall on our sword.

We should get a campaign together for every single freelancer or contractor or consultant to serve notice to quit to their respective clients on a date we can all achieve and at the same time close down our businesses!

Face it: we wouldn't be missed. Oh, I do believe that the economy would not do quite so well, but nobody would know.

[threaded]

Face it: we wouldn't be missed. Oh, I do believe that the economy would not do quite so well, but nobody would know.

I beg to differ. Look at how well the Danish e-government project is getting on compared to that in the UK. Mainly down to a small handful of contractors that just happens to include me.

And this seems an opportune time to mention, yet again, that if UK gov wants a Child Support Support System, I have one ready to go, a bargain at £500 million.

[Fungus]

It's okay, the BBC says, "making the UK more competitive and tax breaks for small firms are expected to be the themes of the Budget."

Seems a strange change of tack from his previous nine budgets which have by and large taken the opposite approach but, hey, I'm sure Gordon knows best what with his vast experience of running competitive businesses.

Come on now, you and I know that what the Chancellor says, and what he does are completely distinct. If ever there was a government that was spin powered, this is it.

The Tories said they would cut the number of bureacrats. So Brown announced cuts. But the number has gone up. Now they hire consultants at twice the price.

He said he would cut red tape. And yet red tape is increasing.

And so on and so on.

He always has trendy appealing sound bites, and does the opposite.

Dishonest thieving dour get.

[Spartacus]

hehe, thats actually quite funny Spartacus

Thank you, Mailman. What a civil sort you are.

[hyperD]

£210 for contractor car tax...

[Mailman]

whats that tax for HyperD?

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