Beer And Bingo - Gift To The Working Classes

The Fear

The Fear

A Wise Man (once sat next to him)
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/19/grant-shapps-bingo_n_4995352.html?ncid=webmail11
 
1p off beer, you just have to wonder why bother? Not as if the breweries will pass that on and even if you drink 20 pints a week you only save, well you can do the maths!

Ridiculous tokenism.
 
Something is better than nothing...This was the job nobody wanted, nobody thought possible that we could turn it around. Yet here we see an ever improving UK under Tory rule, onwards and upwards - lets just hope the people of Great Britain are smart enough to see it.
 
If we're judging this on how smart people are, then your reaction immediately brings the whole Budget into question, GT. Some OK stuff, but overall this does nothing.

The pension changes are going to create a right mess, mark my words. It's great for the more sophisticated pension holders, but the man in the street will piss his pension fund up the wall in no time at all. And just where is this "Advice for every pension plan holder" going to come from? Who's going to pay for that?

Savers still have very little to look forward to. The NS&I stuff will be useful, but there is very little else they have been given.

All in all...meh.

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Something is better than nothing. Personally I would rather pay the 1p more and have the extra money off the countries debt. Playing with tokenism, which they all do, is just boring and folks no one. Well, I thought it fooled no one anyway.
 
But that something isn't there. The net effect of some of their plans will mean more money needed to sort it all out. 1p off Beer will more than disappear when the Pension Advice Levy takes hold, through higher premiums on other products these companies sell.

The whole thing has been ill thought out, and I can see most of it being withdrawn by April 2015 when much of it is due to come into effect.
 
Let's face it, Osbourne hadn't got much to play with, he's still straightening out the country from the previous rabble! But to pinch the recent advertising slogan, 'Every Little Helps'.

The raising of the tax threshold up to £10,500 will help lower paid, the removal of having to but an annuity will be good for people approaching retirement - it will give them more choice - and the extra money to repair potholes and help flood victims I presume he had to divert from somewhere else, so to me, it ain't bad, as I say, with the limited pot he has when still trying to sort out the balance of payments etc etc.

 
That was my point PoL.

Before the Tories came in, it was hard to see a way how this country was ever going to get back on track. Yet there are positives(small maybe but yes every little does help), jobs are being created for instance and 1p off beer is at least "something" for the struggling publicans.
 
The economy was actually growing when the Tories gained power , and their cuts choked of the recovery , but their spin won't tell you that.

Gideons qualifications for being Chancellor is a history degree and he can't read a balance sheet apparently. Pretty scary when it's put like that.
 
Pride of Lions - 20/3/2014 09:25

the removal of having to but an annuity will be good for people approaching retirement -
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You haven't had to buy an annuity since 1995. This is just a fudge of the existing provisions, with massive implications for the future of this Country. Letting people take what they want is a recipe for disaster. There will many more destitute people relying on the State if this does indeed become reality.
 
sirdennis - 20/3/2014 09:39

The economy was actually growing when the Tories gained power , and their cuts choked of the recovery , but their spin won't tell you that.

Gideons qualifications for being Chancellor is a history degree and he can't read a balance sheet apparently. Pretty scary when it's put like that.
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There's no pleasing some if you can't see the wood for the tree's then there's no hope for some of you.Sometimes in life you have to make the most of golden opportunities which is what I'm doing I have borrowed £40 and going to the bingo to get pissed tonight now last week it would have cost me £41.
 
sirdennis - 20/3/2014 10:05

I suppose thats what the Buller boys think the working classes do then , drink beer and play bingo.
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Either that or by releasing pensions the blue rinse brigade will spunk all their new found wealth down the bingo hall thus helping the economy.
 
some of the tweets under the tweet from their Chairman in the article I link to are very funny!
 
The reduction in Bingo tax is fine, they have seen a big drop in the industry and the Gov are trying to help them, that is cool etc. It was the comments by the Chairman showing just how out of touch he is.
 
LOL hardly encourages responsible gambling though does it what they keep banging on about.
 
I must be at very least middle class if not upper class as I have never set foot inside a bingo hall. :17: Unlike all you common plebs!



 
Green Tea - 20/3/2014 09:04

Yet here we see an ever improving UK under Tory rule, onwards and upwards - lets just hope the people of Great Britain are smart enough to see it. :3:
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So unless we agree with your viewpoint, we aren't smart enough to see it!?

Just who is the UK improving for exactly?

You have just proven just how far you can see.




 
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