How would you save the £11.5 Billions if you were Chancellor?

How much did the Olympics cost us?

Reduce government and civil service by 80%. Zillions saved and decisions can be made. Would be able to reduce income tax dramatically as well.

Saddo you have to look at the bigger picture(so they say) tens of thousands of future jobs because of the O's

Aye, right.

how much did thatchers funeral cost us?
how much money do we waste on the arts?
how much do we waste on the royal family?

there is a start.

Sticking our heads in every other countries civil war is costing us billions

What happens if they just tell every country hey owe money to that they ain't getting it? And stop paying other countries money to support them.

Foreign Aid
Benefits , NOT pensioners
Trident nuclear weapons
EU

Stop all foreign aid.
Stop all payments to the European Union.
Stop running your health service for Africa.

Despite all your good deeds and generosity you are still despised by the recepients of this generosity.

Stop subsidising industries that previous Tory governments sold off so they can pay dividends to their tax avoiding investors. (Railtrack, National Grid, BNF, various and assorted utility providers.)

Stop Osborne flogging off the rest of the nations remaining assets on the cheap or offering tax incentives to his buddies.

Stop Osborne offering tax incentives and avoidance loopholes to those liable for corporate, capital gains or highest rate income tax.

just to point out

pensions are not benefits, they are deferred wages, drives me made when people keep saying pensions are part of the benefits system

they are not, they are administered and delivered by DWP and they are a right paid for by paying your stamp over your life


my approach would be to use the modelling to try and find a series of tax and spend policies that lead to deficit reduction in the medium term, don't think we can justify this so called austerity (read low demand) approach any longer as deficit reduction is stagnant for three years

so:

increase real wages by raising the minimum wage by at least 20%
cut tax credits, transfer burden to employers, stop subsidising poverty pay
cancel Trident II

we need growth and demand

all would be solved by cutting the chinless wonders that are in the civil service, far too many staff doing nothing , far too many managers, employment terms still way above that of private sector, job for life culture, stifles government, nice hours (if you can get them)......etc etc etc

Dismantling all welfare and the National Health Service.

Agree with judorick, very well put.

Leaving the EU would save us the membership fee which is just over £50million per day. Would that help?

see when someone says 'cut all welfare and NHS' they have no clue what the outcome of such a measure would be but you can be sure it would not be very pleasant and would do serious damage to the economy and society, just an ill informed soundbite that spits in the face of the millions that fought and died to protect us from tyranny

the foundation of the NHS and the provision of a state pension were great achievements that benefitted millions of people who previously had no health cover - disgraceful thing to suggest

India spend billions on a space programme,yet our biggest overseas foreign aid is to India

I agree entirely with Judorick but the problem lies in giving benefit to people who aren't British just like the NHS is cluttered by people coming in to avail of services they have made no contributions to.

You should have to be resident in Britain for five years before you could get benefits houses and access to the NHS.

if you think we're bad--Italy has a massive 31billion scandal breaking

It's all smoke and mirrors.

Spain owe us 74 billion but we owe them 360 billion, and they are bust!

This site shows you who owes who:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15748696

Fact is we are all bust but it is the money wasted in all the governments that cause the problem. Brussels being the biggest culprit.

Make sure all the tax that is due is paid - there's £90b odd EVERY YEAR right there.

xmoneyx     26 Jun 13 11:57 
if you think we're bad--Italy has a massive 31billion scandal breaking

Pfft!! In Ireland we laugh in the face of €31 billion scandals

to much Guinness

Tax FOBT's 20p for every £1 put in. There's £11.5Bn saved in no time

Interesting proposal but why stop there? Expand it to a 20% turnover tax on betting exchange transactions as well and the money could come rolling in. It would also give PC payers an entirely different perspective on punitive appropriation.

Just been watching Ed Balls spout utter drivel on the News.

I cannot bear to hear these people arguing with each other. I Don't watch, Newsnight, Question Time or listen to Jeremy Vine for the Same reason.

Barstool likes a more relaxed lifestyle.

clive82     26 Jun 13 13:18 
Tax FOBT's 20p for every £1 put in. There's £11.5Bn saved in no time

Interesting proposal but why stop there? Expand it to a 20% turnover tax on betting exchange transactions as well and the money could come rolling in. It would also give PC payers an entirely different perspective on punitive appropriation.


Love to Clive but offshore...tax dodge.. etc ect ect as you're company knows so well

I don't recall telling you who my employer is or their tax arrangements.

Unless you're playing that thoroughly original game of pretending anyone who doesn't agree with your balmy ideas on gambling prohibition works for a bookmaker. If that was true the list of employees is getting longer by the day... Judges, police, Government, Regulators etc...

clive , that is impressive .
not a mention of fobt in the thread title , but within the thread and you sniffed it out .

like flies round sh!te



get a life !

How long do you normally leave it Harry, before you log in under a different name and agree with yourself?

Incidentally, did you have a lot of imaginary friends when you were growing up?

like flies round sh!te



get a life !

lay mark johnston's runners

I'm the God of the internet Clive, i know everything even IP no's. I'm watching ya

This weeks winner of ''Bet he wished he didn't tweet that'' is  https://twitter.com/halfabear/status/349929746357952512/photo/1

‘Lean English’, Tory MP Andrew Selous tells benefit claimants


Wednesday 26 Jun 2013 4:30 pm 
metro.co.uk
 
A Conservative MP was left wishing he practised what he preached after imploring foreign jobseekers to ‘lean English’.

Andrew Selous, reacting to news that benefit claimants would have to have a basic grasp of English, wrote on Twitter that he ‘strongly support the loss of benefits unless claimants lean English’.

The South West Bedfordshire MP has since deleted the tweet containing the unfortunate typo.

‘You might just like to take [a] second look at that tweet,’ Twitter user Jill Segger replied. ‘And a second look at government cuts to language classes.’

Louise Stowell wrote back to the MP: ‘Lean English – is that a new inspirational business title?’
And Duncan Hothersall added: ‘Were did you lean to rite so good?’

Speaking in the Commons earlier as he unveiled the government’s spending plans, chancellor George Osborne said it was a ‘reasonable requirement’ that anyone on benefits would have to have a basic grasp of English.

‘From now on, if claimants don’t speak English, they will have to attend language courses until they do,’ he told MPs.

‘It will help people find work. But if you’re not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut.’

Mr Selous can at least console himself with the fact that he is not alone in having a bad spelling day.

The official introduction to Mr Osborne’s comprehensive spending review says it is the ‘next stage in the government’s plan to move Britian from rescue to recovery’.

I'm the God of the internet Clive, i know everything even IP no's. I'm watching ya

Were you pitching at intimidating menace? Because you're somewhere around comical google alert nerd.

If you had growth you wouldn't need these cuts - just poor government - It will all change in 2015 when we get rid of these losers.

A quick earner would be to put a tax on ribbed condoms that are (allegedly) used by same sex couples...

Clive33 would then have to pay at least £300 per week to spout the s hit e that he keeps on coming up with...

Anaglogs Daughter 26 Jun 13 18:09 Joined: 05 Jan 10 | Topic/replies: 29,479 | Blogger: Anaglogs Daughter's blog
I'm the God of the internet Clive, i know everything even IP no's. I'm watching ya

Anaglog you are a English hating benefit sucking hypocrite that lives in Belfast.

Get a job and if you said that that to me I would not be happy.....

A quick earner would be to put a tax on ribbed condoms that are (allegedly) used by same sex couples...

Clive33 would then have to pay at least £300 per week to spout the s hit e that he keeps on coming up with...

I genuinely have no idea what that even means. Are you trying to insult me or is it a cry for help? Your insistence on including the brackets screams 'I'm confused!!!'

Remember One Man     Joined: 15 Mar 07
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Stop subsidising industries that previous Tory governments sold off so they can pay dividends to their tax avoiding investors. (Railtrack, National Grid, BNF, various and assorted utility providers.)

Stop Osborne flogging off the rest of the nations remaining assets on the cheap or offering tax incentives to his buddies.

Stop Osborne offering tax incentives and avoidance loopholes to those liable for corporate, capital gains or highest rate income tax.





agreed

barstool     26 Jun 13 13:36 
Just been watching Ed Balls spout utter drivel on the News.

I cannot bear to hear these people arguing with each other. I Don't watch, Newsnight, Question Time or listen to Jeremy Vine for the Same reason.

Barstool likes a more relaxed lifestyle.





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...in the sand !!!

Why not have a referendum in Northern Ireland as is planned for Scotland. Simple.

so far the UK has spent £37 billion on the war in Afghanistan. By 2020 it is estimated it will be at least £40 billion. It costs £15 million per day to maintain the presence in Helmund province. The total cost of this war is the equivalent to free students in higher education for 10 YEARS. Unfortunately the £37 billion has already been p1ssed up the wall but a withdrawal would save a minimum of £3 billion over 7 years and the £15 million per day. The £15 million saved per day I would put on Hugh Taylors selections everyday and if that goes pear-shaped we just have one person to blame instead of a bunch of planks having their cake and eating it in Westminster