Simple.
Obvious.
Benefits people who weren’t expecting to pay less tax who are facing rising bills.
I like this tax announcement.
That’s all.
May 13, 2008...4:41 pm
I like it.
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May 13, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Earlier today I speculated that Ed Balls’ had given the game away by getting the Government’s defence of their 10p rate compensation package in first. I was wrong. Alastair Darling’s Commons announcement has been a very pleasant surprise- admittedly the Government were acting against pretty low expectations, but they deserve credit for the nature and content of their response. It is by no means a comprehensive or perfect resolution, but it is simple, swift and sweeping.
May 13, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Brilliant why not borrow another £100 billion and we`ll all go on a world cruise . This shows that this man is now so out of touch he is a danger to the nation. £2.5 billion to win a by election? This is insanity.
Do you Hopi have any understanding whatsoever of what debt is or where money comes from?Does the word un-funded mean anything at all to you ?
I begin to fear that Brown really is deranged he is certainly starting to scare me .What fun we will have explaining how much this will cost us all on top of the already swollen debt.Never never never talk about funding promises again.
May 13, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Well, if we’re being brutally honest it’s really £2.7 billion to potentially save the government, because if the budget was voted down that would probably be it for Brown, and consequently Labour for the next couple of elections.
It has left Brown unavailable to taunt the Tories about unfunded promises but knowing Brown he’ll still give it a go (and get laughed at for it).
Still think it was a good move though, far better than anyone expected.
May 14, 2008 at 9:26 am
Not sure that it will work – even to save the by-election; but we’ll see.
Having said that, it has been claimed (see today’s Independent) that Tamsin Dunwoody was told about this before Parliament and that she was preparing paperwork for disribution that included detail of this change and that were distributed yesterday afternoon. If this is the case, not only is this an attempt to overcome difficulties in a by-election, it is a corruption of our political system too!
May 14, 2008 at 10:00 am
Having said that, it has been claimed (see today’s Independent) that Tamsin Dunwoody was told about this before Parliament and that she was preparing paperwork for disribution that included detail of this change and that were distributed yesterday afternoon.
I was at a meeting last night of the Conservative Party in Lewes and all the talk was about the way information was denied to Osbourne and yet released to the Press. This absolutely stinks and I have feeling the voters have had it up to here with New Labour`s contempt for their intelligence.
If he is capable of this what is he not capable of ?
May 14, 2008 at 10:38 am
I love how the Tories are fuming that this is no longer an issue they can exploit, rather than being glad that those who lost out are better off and that the economy has been given a boost at a difficult time.
Their interest in poverty didn’t last long, did it? They seem much more interested in precisely what minute the announcement was confirmed than in the finances of low-paid workers!
May 14, 2008 at 12:59 pm
that the economy has been given a boost at a difficult time.
Thats right brains you boost the economy by borrowing into an already bankrupt exchequer when our debt sevicing is already about the size of the defence budget .This is when our chaps are getting snuffed out in New Labour cardboard jeeps…all so Brown can look momentarily less of a catastrophe than he is …and it will be a moment .
What you Labour people will not and cannot understand is that every time Brown brags about how much money he has spent every taxpayer in the country hates him even more …especially now . The Conservative case in attacking the 10p rate debacle required an “I would not have started from here” clause .Now it is simpler and better , dither incompetence and one answer spending money we do not have . Thats Brown .
May 14, 2008 at 1:35 pm
You’re easily pleased.
May 14, 2008 at 8:43 pm
I don’t really care whether Labour introduced these measures in order to win a by-election, save the government, stop people being mean or win a drunken dare, the point is it shows that Brown and co have the capacity to take on board criticism and do the right thing. It was a pleasant surprise and will help to restore some of the admittedly self-inflicted damage of recent weeks.
I imagine that taxpayers who have benefited from this policy are wondering less about Brown’s “incompetence” and more about why receiving a helping hand to the low paid is automatically dismissed as “class war” by the opposition.
May 15, 2008 at 10:41 am
GB’s problem is that he got into the mess in the first place … and the appearance of first denying that anyone lost out, when briefing papers leaked to the press set out clearly that many did and then accepting that they did and raising the threshold to meet and outcry and try to win a by-election gives the appearance not of listening, but of disingenuous nonsense and then panic.