The July Budget

[The Cowboy]

Not sure what its called, but I do believe that humanity owes it to itself to look after eachother, the problem is there's too many greedy and swindling third world country leaders out there ensuring it never reaches those who need it.

A tricky one, but one we must try.

Definitely a lot of greed and corruption out there, but broadly following the 'teach a man to fish' mantra, surely it's just as important to build international trade links and infrastructure, encourage new employment and raise standards of living, as it is lobbing a few sacks of rice of the back of a lorry.

 

[Elong]

Definitely a lot of greed and corruption out there, but broadly following the 'teach a man to fish' mantra, surely it's just as important to build international trade links and infrastructure, encourage new employment and raise standards of living, as it is lobbing a few sacks of rice of the back of a lorry.

You'd hope that's what the money is for and not sending monkeys into space lol

Sorry, going off topic here, I hope the budget looks after everyone in the UK fairly.

 

[daylightrobber]

You'd hope that's what the money is for and not sending monkeys into space lol

Sorry, going off topic here, I hope the budget looks after everyone in the UK fairly.

Don't get your hopes up too much like. It's not going to happen.

 

[Blue 1]

I hope the budget looks after everyone in the UK fairly.

Bahahahaha.

 

[Elong]

Don't get your hopes up too much like. It's not going to happen.

Probably impossible to as well, as an outsider looking in I am actually quite interested in this one, seems a defining period for the UK.

 

[rascal]

I do hope that the wealthy are given tax cuts, they've had a terrible time.



This is a joke.

 

[bignev23]

Works out at 3.55 a week out of your wallet per person in the UK. You don't miss that do you?

I don't miss it personally but if they're slashing budgets all over the place then 12 Bill is a lot of cash that if used correctly could do a lot of good in this country rather than be used abroad and spread around in amounts that could be quite insignificant to actually helping a country out, especially if they don't need it anyway like India for example. I also get the feeling a lot of this aid will be syphoned off and not reach its intended destination AKA the poor anyway.

 

[rascal]

I don't miss it personally but if they're slashing budgets all over the place then 12 Bill is a lot of cash that if used correctly could do a lot of good in this country rather than be used abroad and spread around in amounts that could be quite insignificant to actually helping a country out, especially if they don't need it anyway like India for example. I also get the feeling a lot of this aid will be syphoned off and not reach its intended destination AKA the poor anyway.

That's certainly the case. We need to look after our own first, especially at a time when child poverty in the UK is ever increasing.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Can't wait.

 

[Billy Dean]

Personally I think we have an obligation to commit some funds to foreign aid though it should probably be done in a different way to how it is being done. The fact is we are partly responsible for some countries poverty so kind of owe them something.

There's more than enough in the coffers to take care of the UK's poor and still commit to foreign aid/development.

 

[Blue 1]

I don't miss it personally but if they're slashing budgets all over the place then 12 Bill is a lot of cash that if used correctly could do a lot of good in this country rather than be used abroad and spread around in amounts that could be quite insignificant to actually helping a country out, especially if they don't need it anyway like India for example. I also get the feeling a lot of this aid will be syphoned off and not reach its intended destination AKA the poor anyway.

The 12bn figure being stated is purely cuts to the social security budget. None of it would be going abroad anyway. Any other cuts will be in addition to this.

 

[Blue 1]

Works out at 3.55 a week out of your wallet per person in the UK. You don't miss that do you?

That's not how it works.

 

[Kiwi]

That's not how it works.

No you're right mate, it's probably about 5 quid from the lower 50% while those with their hand in the wallet already have all these new international trade deals they benefit from.

 

[chewee]

The proposed cuts will hit the poor and vulnerable, majority of which already vote Labour. This is a very calculated attack on a demographic that electorally will have little effect on future results. I will be very interested to see if any of the cuts have a big impact on the over 65s. I doubt they will given the stranglehold the Tories have with this age range (Always traditionally a high voting turnout to).

The sad thing is we live in a country now which has the attitude of 'if it doesn't effect me I'm not bothered about it', I strongly believe this attitude was born in the 1980s out of Thatcherism. The sense of community and helping each other out was replaced one of greed and self interest. Only when people fall on hardship do they realise the brutal, cruel and unfair impact of such cuts.

 

[Tubey]

The only good thing to come out of this will be the resultant all-but humanitarian disaster that will make the Tories unelectable for another 25 years come the next election.

To put it into perspective, nearly half the benefit bill in the UK is from state pensions, and some again to just debt. "Actual" benefits like DLA or JSA account for about £40bn. If the £12bn comes off those benefits alone, you're talking of an approx. 25% cut across the board, squarely aimed at the most vulnerable in society, and even if you account for pensions it's still an approx. 10% cut across the board, and that's before you look at tax credits getting chopped too.

All of this whilst we're greasing the palms of foreign countries with "aid" to develop nuclear programs.

There's going to be a lot of ashamed people who voted Tory over the next few years when the effect of this becomes clear - or at least they should be.