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[albitz]

I do my job as least as effectively as my employer requires me too. They provide me with a TV,DVD player and a computer with internet access and have no problem with me making use of it. That is their right as a PLC, they are responsible only to their shareholders (of which I am one). There couldnt ever be such a justifiable scenario when the person is being paid from the public purse.

[MICHELINMAN]

Ok Albs, but to be honest, I am more worried about the price of petrol!
And so should you be, driving an Omega!
Ranting on about the NHS, and your paying over £6 a gallon!

[geoffr70]

Nothing of any substance appears to have been said about benefits. They should be slashed. I for one am sick of paying for lazy bums. They get bloddy plenty aswell, and their free time. Genuine people not included.

[MICHELINMAN]

Nothing of any substance appears to have been said about benefits. They should be slashed. I for one am sick of paying for lazy bums. They get bloddy plenty aswell, and their free time. Genuine people not included.

period....

[albitz]

Nothing of any substance appears to have been said about benefits. They should be slashed. I for one am sick of paying for lazy bums. They get bloddy plenty aswell, and their free time. Genuine people not included.

Agreed  - the giant money eating, self serving machine that the unwelfare state has become needs to be disassembled and rebuilt into a smaller more effective service which prevents the genuinely needy from falling into real poverty, rather than a career choice for the workshy which  it has been in recent years.

[albitz]

Ok Albs, but to be honest, I am more worried about the price of petrol!
And so should you be, driving an Omega!
Ranting on about the NHS, and your paying over £6 a gallon!

My fuel is £3.63 per gallon - although I do think thats outrageous as it was £2.73 this time last year.

[geoffr70]

Nothing of any substance appears to have been said about benefits. They should be slashed. I for one am sick of paying for lazy bums. They get bloddy plenty aswell, and their free time. Genuine people not included.

period....

Well we live in a capitalist society. There is a cost to everything, accept it. Watching the news tonight, the journalist said: "What's in the pot for you?" Err, bloody nothing, and so it should be, it seems that people now expect the budget to be some sort of bloody give away. We've had it too good for too long, living on borrowed wealth, thanks to bloody labour and Mr "no more boom and bust".

I for one am not bothered about the cost of petrol. I'll still fill my machines up, I'm still going to LPG them though, better in my pocket than a welfarer.

The socialists mentality is intrinsically wrong. Strikes, improved pay and conditions, welfare, sick pay, holiday pay, flexi time, 35 hour weeks, benefits, money for bloody everyone yet no productivity to pay for it!

We can whinge about the cost of fuel as much as we want, but I fill my auto elite up and get 280 miles around town or 500 down the motorway, and for 80-90 quid to shift a big lard a**e isn't that bad really. Better than going on filthy, late, expensive, unreliably, inconvenient, impractical public transport.

[Terbs]

Not up on the legal type of thing, but could not the government say that petrol cannot be sold over a certain price, say £1.25 ltr, keeping the same duty, so everybody pays the same. The garages/oil companies would have to settle for lower profits or streamline their orgs with lower bonuses etc.
Probably talking out the top of my head, but its an idea.

[Nickbat]

No better or worse than expected.

A positive was the reduction in the required borrowing.

As long as the Labour scum dont get back in for a few more terms the mess might just about get sorted out.

Not sure I agree with that:

"Total borrowing will be £165.5 billion in 2010-11, and £167.4 billion in 2011-12. £261.6 billion of this is additional borrowing for extra spending. Much of the rest is refinancing of maturing debt. There will be  no shortage of government bonds around for several years. The Chancellor’s budget adds £44 billion more  to the national debt by 2014-15, taking the total increase in debt over the five years of the strategy to £485 billion."
 
"The main change in the budget is the increase in public spending which was not flagged in the speech. The figures for extra spending are:

2011-12   increase of £10.6 billion

2012-13  increase of £9.2 billion

2013-14  increase of £8.1 billion

2014-15  increase of £6.1 billion"

http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2011/03/24/office-of-budget-predicts-fall-in-capital-gains-tax-receipts-with-higher-rate/

Smoke and mirrors. 

[Lampynoiseboy]

Over 1.6 million employees. ...........WHY??

GOOD GOD!!    :-[WHY NOT??

Many countries with much larger populations employ a lot less people in their health services, and have much better health statistics than this country.So - WHY ?
Remember, we have to pay for this.It should be an efficient organisation, and anyone who doesnt need to be there, shouldnt be.[/quote]

you mean people like the ROYAL FAMILY?

They bring in more in tourism than they cost, and as a friend pointed out the other day, no matter who is in government, the Queen has the last word on things- i.e. as long as she's in, she can veto sharia law if it ever gets that far. Very useful!

oh, and it makes the yanks envious 

[Banjax]

I thought we'd given up on capitalism when we bailed out the banks? 

[geoffr70]

I thought we'd given up on capitalism when we bailed out the banks? 

In favour of what? Socialism? Haha you make me laugh!

Can a mod put BJs last post in the joke section!

[Banjax]

I thought we'd given up on capitalism when we bailed out the banks? 

In favour of what? Socialism? Haha you make me laugh!

Can a mod put BJs last post in the joke section!

err.....kinda....yep 

[albitz]

I thought we'd given up on capitalism when we bailed out the banks? 

I dont know how many banks there are in this country, but its a lot. I dont remember how many were bailed out, but Im pretty sure it was either three or four.

[Mysteryman]

I thought we'd given up on capitalism when we bailed out the banks? 

I dont know how many banks there are in this country, but its a lot. I dont remember how many were bailed out, but Im pretty sure it was either three or four.

But every single one benefitted from those bailouts. Without them every bank would have gone under.