bridge too far

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curtain

"George Parker and Alex Barker say in the Financial Times that this Budget is going to be a test for the coalition government: "If the Budget is shown to have discriminated against the poor or against the less prosperous regions beyond the M25 - whatever the coalition might say - tensions inside the Lib Dems are likely to emerge."" from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/seealso/2010/06/daily_view_tuesdays_budget.html

Dune it will be interesting to see if the Libs vote the budget in. There is a lot of disquiet apparently from some very senior Liberals.

Thanks Badger - I think the NHS scheme operates as I wrote. At least that was what I was told when I joined the NHS scheme.

And wasn't it Thatcher and Regan, in cahoots, who started off the deregulation anyway?

I don't think they do get invested. I think what happens is that current contributions are used to pay current pensioners. Most public sector workers pay about 6% of their salaries every month into the 'fund' and this goes out, together with the employers' contributions, into the pensions paid out monthly.

I was just thinking EXACTLY the same!

Quite right - never believe a Tory eh

Dearie me Stanley - not reading the posts properly again. I'm not lecturing on the deficit. I'm trying (but obviously failing) to remind you and ask you where the 'fairness' is when ordinary people are going to lose out big time whilst, as ever, the Tories' friends will get off comparitively scot free. Got it now? There will be no 'fairness'.

restrain

saddle

"Cutting the housing budget could cost the economy £44bn over 10 years" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10361650.stm This could lead to 200,000 construction jobs being lost and an additional 350,000 on the affordable housing waiting lists.

shoulders

What's that got to do with ordinary people losing out whilst the bankers (who caused the crisis that we're all paying for) continue to earn enormous salaries and bonuses? Where's the fairness that Chameleon and Georgie talk about there?

distribute

People will not appreciate losing their jobs and / or getting pay freezes or even pay cuts when they see bankers and senior executives receiving obscene bonuses and 7, 8, 9% pay rises. This is what I mean by Georgie Porgie saying we have to share the pain. WE know full well that any pain we suffer will line the pockets of those who are already comfortable.

poor

[in response to dogma] chelsea

[of] faith

park

wounded

dusk

dun

over