In 2011, the budget calculator calculated that I would be £90.66 a year better off in the coming financial year. In 2012, I just posted a picture of some gravy. For this coming financial year, I will be a massive £289.00 better off. So why do I like this budget? 1. 1p cut in beer duty and 3p rise scrapped. Good for drinkers and landlords. 2. Fuel duty rise scrapped. Yet again. Good for all that drive. 3. Public sector pay increases for the already overpaid public sector will be limited to 1% in 2015/16. Good for the underpaid private sector … Continued
Tag: 2013 Budget
Believe it or not, there are several strands of Conservatives. Which is why you see the party pulling itself apart on a semi-regular basis over things the majority of the population don’t care massively about like gay marriage or Europe, and why when as soon as David Cameron says the words ‘wind farms’, the Daily Mail will tell its readers to vote UKIP. I am definitely at the more liberal side of things – to me free market rules rule. That is the focus. Minimal government, minimal tax, maximum market. Let people choose their life. And modernise society, the economy … Continued