National News The Budget 2020

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SSP for the self employed & the like........
Funding for LA`s related to above.

 

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Under 250 employee`s get SSP refund 100% easing pressure on SME`s.
HMRC to accept deferred payments.

 

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Covid Business Interruption loans ...... £1 billion capital for SME`s.
Rateable value under £51k Business rates abolished (pubs clubs etc).

 

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Any retail leisure business under 51k rateable.......... no business rates.
Any business on SBR relief .... £3k cash!

 

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£7 billion invested in SME`s in total.............

£30 billion across the system to protect & boost the economy. ??

 

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OBR says UK long term growth will be 2.5% .......

 

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Budget surplus in all the next 5 years (OBR).......

Debt to drop from current level.

Covid might knock it..... flex over 2 years.

 

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One Nation needs to deliver their promises.

"This Budget gets it done"................. new strapline! ?

NLW to reach 2/3rds of median, projected NLW of £10.50.

NI £1,000 off !

 

[Essexyellows]

The "Real Workers Party".

Tampon tax ... no VAT on sanitary stuff.

Scotch Whiskey - £1 million for promotions and Spirit duty cancelled!

 

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Pubs..... too many have closed........... Business Rate Discount of £5k.....

Freeze on alcohol duties, we need a drink!

 

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Fuel Duty............ frozen.

Business ...... £130 million of start up loans and lots of figures I can`t keep up with!

Technology......... £22 billion into R&D...... ?

 

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Anyone seen a forest of "Magic Money Tree`s" ?

 

[Gary Baldi]

Anyone seen a forest of "Magic Money Tree`s" ?

In the Labour party manifesto!

 

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£400 million into Research at Universities in the North and elsewhere.

Red diesel....... tax relief abolished in 2022. Agriculture will retain relief as will rail & fishing.

 

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Double investment in Flood Relief schemes.

 

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Infrastructure "leveling up" £600 billion ...... highest since 1955............... tripling capital budgets.

Treasury Offices across the country and a Treasury Campus in the North.

22,000 Civil servants to be moved out of the South.

Lots of money for Scotland, Wales & NI.

Metro mayors to get London style settlements.

£5 billion for broadband.

 

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Education............... Increase of 4% per pupil...
Further Education for 16-19............. £1.5 billion on capital for colleges
Reading........ abolishing VAT on books, newspapers, text books .....

Brutal pop at John MacDonnel !

 

[RyanioBirdio]

Anything yet about jet packs and free blow jobs?

 

[Essexyellows]

Measures to end rough sleeping.

 

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NHS............... all resources required for Covid.

Immigration health surcharge up to £600+

Mental Health Support - Veterans to get £10 million plus NI relief for employers.

Doctors Pension Allowance - 98% out of taper, that`ll go down well.

Overall Funding..... £34 billion over 5 years, additional £6 billion (50,000 nurses, 40 new hospitals).......

Spending EU money on our responsibilities.

Largest fiscal boost in 30 years.......

Sit down Jeremy.

 

[Gary Baldi]

Corbyn waffling on about the Green New Deal again.

 

[Whingit]

Gordon Brown could well have produced that budget. Lots of borrowing.

A fiscally irresponsible, by their own standards, Tory government will be interesting.

 

[Gary Baldi]

They realised for many reasons, now is the time to spend, spend, spend, in Tory terms. A house of cards they are building though

 

[Sarge]

what tax has gone (up) on onto the usuals .... fuel, tobacco etc?

 

[LowerSouth]

what tax has gone (up) on onto the usuals .... fuel, tobacco etc?

Duties frozen -no increase

 

[Sarge]

Duties frozen -no increase

Blimey! .... I was expecting huge increases on tax/duties on stuff like fuel, tobacco & maybe alcohol too

wheres the government 'finding'/ raising all the £ to pay for their giveaways?

 

[Sheik Djibouti]

Looks like Theresa was hiding the magic money tree all along.

As per all budget statements, the devil will also be in the detail to follow (you know, the bit about where the money is coming from and just how new some of that spending is and just how committed they are to some of those "promises").

I hope they are good to their word. Just like Brexit, they now need to own this and deliver the outcome they promised.........

 

[Sarge]

Looks like Theresa was hiding the magic money tree all along.

As per all budget statements, the devil will also be in the detail to follow (you know, the bit about where the money is coming from and just how new some of that spending is and just how committed they are to some of those "promises").

I hope they are good to their word. Just like Brexit, they now need to own this and deliver the outcome they promised.........

she took it home to Maidenhead when she was ousted stepped down as PM .... miraculously ALL the roads in n around Maidenhead town centre had the pot holes repaired almost literally overnight!

link (dated Sept 2019)

Royal Borough launches 24 working hour pothole fix pledge

The Royal Borough has launched its 24 working hour pothole fix pledge today (Monday). The council says it will now have 'some of the quickest response times for fixing potholes in Berkshire and beyond', with all reported potholes more than 40mm deep on roads fixed within 24 working hours...

www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk

 

[Sarge]

Duties frozen -no increase

tobacco has increased in the budget (27p per pack of cigs)

 

[Oslernorth]

Tories could start their own Momentum movement at this rate.
It’s only a matter of time before we see Mark Francois at peace protects and Climate change rallies