Budget 2025
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Beebo
Guru
As pointed out by James O’Brien.
There was a huge state operation in biblical times.
Romans paid taxes for things like roads and armies.
and the only reason why Mary and Joseph were in Bethlehem was because the state were running a census.
And how can scrapping the 2 child policy be unChristian?
C R
Guru
Minor quibble, there's no historical record of that census happening.
Ian H
Squire
Explaining it to the great unwashed. Most if not all chancellors have done that to some extent.
briantrumpet
Squire
Even if you still hate Thatcher and all she stood for, and are not religious, as Thatcher was, it's worth reading this speech to the General Assembly to the Church of Scotland, to see how she and Badenoch are intellectually a million miles apart.
https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107246
bobzmyunkle
Veteran
If? Anyhow, haven't listened to this a while.
View: https://youtu.be/iJndgwv7xb4?si=3AqNny7iY7PoabBS
briantrumpet
Squire
If only Reeves had thought about these two people before the Budget....
First Aspect
Guru
The 20 year old will be one of BadEnoch's older advisers, so he will have come to them.
The 88 year old will be 91 by the time it hits, so she is at the point of budgeting for how much it will cost in total for a couple of years.
The 88 year old will be 91 by the time it hits, so she is at the point of budgeting for how much it will cost in total for a couple of years.
briantrumpet
Squire
I remember being amused by an elderly family friend: when we visited him and his wife when they were in their 80s and several years before they died, rather than say "I think this house is getting too big for our needs", he said "I think we are over-capitalised here". He was a retired chartered accountant.
Meanwhile, two differing POV here:
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Pblakeney
Guru
Apart from the selling off of council houses the other main driver for the housing crisis was when people started looking at houses as investments instead of homes.
briantrumpet
Squire
That couple downsized and made a lovely family home where they lived out their respective days.
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Beebo
Guru
My parents are in a home that’s far too big for them. 4 bedrooms 3 reception rooms and half an acre of garden. They should have bitten the bullet a few years ago.
Dad has Parkinson’s now, so I don’t think he will ever leave. Too much stress.
I just think you get used to having the space, and old ages races up on you whilst you’re not looking.
Dad has Parkinson’s now, so I don’t think he will ever leave. Too much stress.
I just think you get used to having the space, and old ages races up on you whilst you’re not looking.
briantrumpet
Squire
I'm sure that RC will be full of sympathy for the 88yo.
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Beebo
Guru
Same with VAT on private school fees. The press can always find the family who have a SEN pupil and just about afford the fees.
All chancellors know that their decisions create cliff edges and anomalies. They have act for the many not the few.
