Thursday, 22 March 2012

Budget Fudge-it!

Well, it's been that time of year again, politically controversial and chaotic... The Budget.  I was glad to see that this year they had indeed budgeted for a new briefcase for the Chancellor, nice shiny red thing, bet Gordon Brown was immensely jealous.  Despite this being what I would usually consider a bleak time of year, suffice to say the only thing that really annoyed me about the Budget was Ed Milliband's face.
After the announcements Mr. Milliband's smug face emerged on the TV, his lopsided toothy grin began to nit-pick on the smallest of unexplained things in the way that a reader of The Sun would take to a scaremongering tactic.  Irritating ugly little man.
'The Budget favours the millionaires!!!' well, no.  I don't pretend to be a millionaire or even someone who earns a ridiculous amount of money but I do believe that if someone has worked hard for their wage why should they have to contribute 50% of what they earn to pushchair brigade skets and their benefits way of life?  So what if their 50% contribution has been dropped to 45%, it's their money! I did notice however the canny way of increasing stamp duty on expensive properties to 7% was a way of getting back some of this money... with their increased amount of expendable income the 'millionaires' would be able to contribute to economic growth by purchasing, say, more expensive houses thus contributing in the form of, say, stamp duty!  Nice work.
'The Budget will hit the middle earners the hardest' well, no.  The BBC showed me in their Budget calculator that we, as a household were a whole £278 better off a month, hurrah! That's our social life funded for the next year.  Plus, again, that's £278 that myself and my partner will be 'throwing' back at the economy because, in the classic British way of things, we can't save for toffee, so we'll probably end up spending it! Failing that I'll be setting up a 'Sponsor a Pensioner' charity and my additional money will be donated to my sponsored Pensioner to help them out.
As I watched further these MPs throwing political insults and interrupting each other, it reminded me of a visit to Chester Zoo as a child.  I remember the Gorillas going mental and watching them throw faeces at each other, similarly as the MPs hurl insults in the Houses of Parliament... And these people are in charge of our money and lives? Worrying.  It's all a bit Planet Of The Apes if you ask me...
With all of the explanations of government spending and cuts, one fundamental problem became apparent - the plan for increasing economic growth and reducing the country's deficit all depended on one thing... The current government being able to complete their plan.  With this in mind, and Mr. 'Annoying' Milliband's and the media's scare tactics, in all honesty, what are the chances of this?


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