so what did you think of the budget ? the AA grumpy column

[Peter Lake]

mad hatter;1318993 wrote: well hello welcome back to grumpy towers i,ve made some changes and done some decorating since i saw you last...well it spruces the old place up and lady grumpy too.

you will find the format of the column will be different as i must stick to the rules so no copy or paste urls or pro BNP propganda unless its a story still i hope you enjoy the column.

well the coilition have produced their first budget rolled out by george osbourne

( anything to do with ozzy ? ED ) and its a mixed bag of money saving measures

aimed to get britain back on its feet vat goes up to 20% child benefit is frozen for 3 years the public sector was hit hard and the unions are up in arms about it.

yet the coilition have inherited a broken bankrupt britain from a corrupt and wastefull labour government who shambled their way through 2 elections leading us with lies and deception.

for the good of the country we will all have to tighten our purse strings again. if you remember the last one was under mrs thatcher in the 1980,s and got britain back on its feet then the next labour government to sent us back to where we started.

times are going to get harder and the purse strings tighter over the years but if this is the only way get broken britain back on its feet so be it.

AAG
It's not for the good of the country because middle England will be hit the hardest which includes children in poverty, something the Liberal Democrats are up in arms over, pensioners and the middle earners. Already, he's to close police stations and 36,000 police jobs are to go, and courts on an already under manned force. There's talk of scrapping the free bus passes for pensioners, scrapping free tv licences for the over 75's, scrapping child benifit, scrapping cold weather payments to pensioners but the one i really love is the freeze on pay and then calculating pensions on wage increases. Anyone who can not see through that desrves a Conservative government. Reforms are set to affect the most vulnerable while the banks see little reform leaving them to carry on fleecing us. If benifit is cut we'll see the idle and reckless force their children into poverty and next to get the chop will be the health service. At least in four years time they'll be so hated we'll see a Labour victory again providing there hasn't already been a rebellion by the Liberal Democrats forcing an election to get Cameron out.

[theia]

I think the winter fuel payment should be means tested, or maybe only paid to those claiming pension credit. I know so many people who say they don't need it and would prefer not to receive it.