New New Labour

[AtW]

Sounds a lot to me - even if they tried to lower the higher rate limit i doubt that they could (or would dare) lower it by enough to fund £11 billion.

It's already been agreed by current Govt that threshold will raise to £10k during course of this Parliament.

[vetran]

they have already started, child benefit & tax credits are to be stopped for higher rate tax payers. £1-2K a year for most middle income families will cover the shortfall. plus of course if they raise to £10k the income support bill will fall.

Tories may be filthy capitalists but most of them can use a calculator.

[DodgyAgent]

Good. It's Sunday, chill out.
Look left.
Time to tear the whole discredited monolith down and start again.
They have failed us one too many times.
How will we bail them out the next time? With what?

Where has the left ever worked?

[Churchill]

"He said that such a cut should be funded by borrowing, not more spending cuts."

Absurd. Borrow more and you've got an even bigger deficit problem, which will be even more painful to sort out.

I don't know how anyone can take this seriously.

Payday loan, init?

[sasguru]

I've been out of work, but I didn't sit blaming the goverment or anyone else. If I learned one thing from Thatcher, it was the spirit of self determination.

Actually I learned two things, the other being prudence (not Gordon Brown's version, which was anything but), which seems to be an alien concept to some.

WHS

[Doggy Styles]

Well, the Government runs the country, that's what we pay them to do.

So why are there 2.75 million unemployed then? Did they all resign?

So perhaps they are not looking hard enough. Perhaps if 100 people really stare hard at an advert for one vacancy for long enough, it will turn into 100 vacancies by magic ....

I didn't resign.

I've been made redundant as a permie when the government cancelled a large defence contract, and at other times I've had months between contracts looking for work, not nice with a big mortgage and kids.

But at no time did I blame my situation on others, I am responsible for myself. I didn't sit whingeing at the unfairness of it all, waiting for a job to come to me, I just got on with it with a positive attitude.

[TimberWolf]

This forum needs a Mr Motivator sockie.

[Doggy Styles]

This forum needs a Mr Motivator sockie.

Sorry, it wasn't meant to sound like that.

[DodgyAgent]

That's the only good thing about Cumbria. The people are friendly and unpretentious.

If you come from down south, it catches you off guard when somebody in a bus queue suddenly starts talking to you as though he has known you for years. My son grew up in Berkshire, and he found it very strange at first, because down south they are either after something or trying to sell you something.

You have to talk back, because it is very bad manners not to, and they will think you very 'odd' if you ignore them like you would in London.

The downside is that there is only ONE big employer, and it's like a company town. So if you get benched you STAY benched.

That is not the London I have grown up and lived in. If a stranger talks to us we call the police

[sasguru]

Well, the Government runs the country, that's what we pay them to do.

So why are there 2.75 million unemployed then? Did they all resign?

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Not sure I'm understanding you? Are you saying the government should create 2.75 million jobs?