General Chat

I listened to the speech that Chancellor George Osborne's made to the faithful today at the Tory Party Conference. In his speech he said he needs to make an additional £25 billion of savings, so keeping in mind the austerity measures he has introduced since 2010, his message can be summed up in five words - You ain't seen nothing yet :-(

If I may add,


from the aforesaid G O........




Today I delivered my speech to the Conservative Party Conference - and I asked Britain to choose the future, not the past.

Four years ago, our economy and our country were on the floor. But we picked ourselves up, sorted ourselves out and got back in the fight.

In Government, we set out our long-term economic plan and worked through it.

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Because there is more to do.

That is why I set out our plans to help build a better future:

•People who have worked and saved all their lives will be able to pass on their hard-earned pensions to their families tax free. I'm abolishing the punitive 55% death tax altogether.
•The Conservatives will take the difficult decisions to carry on getting the deficit down. So we will freeze benefits for two years from April 2016.
•We want to see low business taxes, but low taxes that are paid - not avoided. We'll put a stop to technology multinationals diverting profits offshore to avoid tax.
•We will abolish long-term youth unemployment so that we give young people the opportunity of a better, more secure future. Reducing the benefit cap will fund 3 million apprenticeships.
•We'll help young first-time buyers get their starter home with a permanent Help to Buy.


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It may have been the lighting, but all he needed was a red-lined cloak and a pair of fangs...

Once upon a time, governments purportedly represented their populace. This one of ours represents itself, its pals & its backers. We pick up the tab. Anyone out there with enough courage to turn off the tap on this abysmal shower?

Arrogance has taken over & everything is the fault of the previous administration.

It don't really matter who the messenger is... the message will be the same.

Whoever wins next election will more or less carry on in the same direction.

We're all doomed.....

Andy

Rightly , or wrongly, in the mid 60's
A Workmate said to me...........
it doesn't matter which party, is in power......

it is Whitehall, that runs the country.............

I just had to shake my head and ask myself have we not heard this before, when the Chancellor said that we will abolish long-term youth unemployment so that we give young people the opportunity of a better, more secure future and by reducing the benefit cap we will fund 3 million apprenticeships.

These days, I think you could probably get an apprenticeship, in things such as changing a nappy, stacking shelves, working on a supermarket checkout, pouring a pint of beer, and cooking a big mac & chips, to name but a few possibilities.

Looking at the long list of things you can get an apprenticeship in, I have to wonder just how many of these 3 million apprenticeships will actually be in proper skilled trades or whether this is just another attempt, at something political parties of all persuasions have done over past decades, a way of massaging the real truth about youth unemployment ;-)

In the UK, we have thousands of twenty-somethings with nothing more than writer's cramp to show for submitting endless job applications; inevitable letters of rejections, if they are 'lucky' enough to receive a reply at all, because they are often overqualified for the jobs they would be more than willing to take.

That 25billion will be assisted by the great con, which starts tomorrow.Road tax change on cars.every time a car changes hands the DVLA gains one months tax.which comes to quite a few million pounds. :-|