Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

155 a week is enough for one day, probably

Nice budget.

How can they do/justify the difference between pensioners?

£1820 is a lot of money to some.

Georgy taking the piss now, what a joke of a shadow cabinet LOL!!!

so working does not pay .
a person who has never worked will get 155 a week pension
a person who as worked all is life in a low paid job but saved and struggled
to buy is home will get 119 a week
and no he can not get any benefits because he saved out of is low wage

it stinks and is rotten
it does not affect me . but it is a national disgrace

my family will never vote tory again we like fairness to all
todays single pensioner as been shit on big time

Osborne is a druggie liar and thick as shit

from a life long conservative

It seems to be a budget of Osborne U-bend integrity.

As should have been expected.

Now for a major slide back on Syria!

I wonder if MI5 watch this BB . you know for training purposes .

Yes we do V -):

Where's agent cynic today .

Tanker, the standard pension will be £155.65 per week from April 2021 under the new single tier system. The existing pension basic rate will be £119.30 from next April.

I hope they don't watch this all day cause TANKER would get banged up !!!

agent cynic is just back from playing golf :-)

tax credit cuts
delighted they have been abandoned, and i care not that it will be deemed a u-turn or whatever
nothing wrong with the concept, but the application of them clearly had no proper forethought

what else was in there as haven't caught up yet?

Nothing much for the masses as usual, "forecasts" that mean little or nothing in the medium to long term.

thanks

The tax credit cuts have just been delayed. They will come back.

Wasn't Corbyn pathetic at PMQs today. With all the problems in the world such as terrorism and bombing Syria and even poverty and benefits, he could only manage to ask 4 questions about the cut in the subsidy on solar panels. He even had a letter from an employee in a solar panel company. Cameron gave him the same answer more or less 4 times. The cost of manufacture of solar panels has plummeted and therefore the susidy falls as well.

Former "Con"servative MP Tim Yeo loses Sunday Times cash claim libel bid.

an additional 3% stamp duty surcharge on buy to let and second homes
sounds a bit of a killer to potential landlords, and doesn't sound very fair
anyone else got an angle on this?

Buy to let became a bit of obsession with the public, especially with TV shows about it. There is little doubt that it fuelled house price rises. If it can be stopped or slweddown then this has to be good for home buyers. Every buy to let is a house out of these buying pool.

There has already been a change where the interest on buy to let mortgages has been disallowed as an expense against profit.

I expect further changes in the future to slow the process even further. The BoE may introduce measure to tighten the flow of buy to let mortgages.