The 2009 Budget will be on 22 April 2009. Budgets are usually given in March but it has been delayed this year to fall after the G20 world leaders conference when the global economic crisis will be discussed.
This does mean of course, that some measures which have effect from 6 April 2009 will not be announced until 2 weeks after the event, but I guess we will just have to mind read the Government….
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Everyone, apart from bankers and MPs have suffered great loss as a result of the Government bailing out shabby banks. Brown has given away billions in “quantitative easing” which has mostly gone overseas.
What we must do is start a class action against the Government for damages. Some economists say that if Brown wants to get the economy moving, the best way would be to give every family in the UK £1,000. I am told that the total cost would be about £20 billion. Anyone interested, e-mail me at the above address.
Peter
1000 pound would not help our family Both of us have been made redundant and lost our income and 2 comany cars We now have no way to get our 4 children a 20 mile round trip to school No jobs no income ??? We have never been unemployed in our lives and had a great lifestyle but what now?
The current depression is hitting the middle classes very hard as Judith comments show. Has she the option of moving to the state sector for education - there are state schools that match or exceed the private sector ones But That assumes there are places. Given that Labour has just cut funding to secondary schools, one day before the start of their financial year and the very large increase in pension contributions due in April 2011 there is not a single school in the public sector that will be financially viable inside 2 years. That under a government which chanted ‘Education, education, education!’
Unemployment figures show only those claiming benefits, NOT those with long notice periods, significant redundancy payments or working on reduced pay or who were self employed. If you want to see the impact of the recession try driving on our roads. City centre car parks suddenly have empty spaces, commuter trains fewer passengers and road commutes much shorter. There are fewer lorries on the roads.
What I could do with £1000, I could pay my Council Tax for the year or pay my energy bills for 6 months. As a Local Government Employee, I have just read that our pay rise will be 0.5% for 2009/10 whilst MP’s and the like will get 2.5% plus the ludicrous expenses some claim. I challenge any MP or Banker to live on my salary for a month. I would gladly accept 0.5% if I could put in a claim for travel, household goods etc, my son would love a 50″ TV or even be given a multi million pound pension pay out for aiding the collapse of a bank. I could do that!!
I’m sorry Judith but if £1000 would not help your family then you must have been living a way too extravagant lifestyle. Think yourself lucky you both had good jobs and not one but two company cars. Perhaps you should have put away some decent savings during the good times (rather than paying for your “great lifestyle”) so you would have something to live off during the recession.
Great idea - pity Brown didn’t do this months ago - rarther than giving so much to the banks, who seem determined to keep it to themselves.
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