50%, eh? And there goes your pension.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ginge I've just been speaking to a customer who's a wine merchant. They're *ever* so impressed at the amount of notice they've got to re-price their entire stock list. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and go and talk to the Catholics.
You'd better quickly knock them up an IT system that will do price = price * 1.02 then, hadn't you? And of course, this midnight price increase has never happened before in a budget, has it? Oh, no...
hah - not even close. what pension. Anyway, at least I haven't take things as badly as poor David Kellermann.
I can never tell with you when you're trying to be funny or just being stupid. Have you heard of "smileys"?
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, CT That'll handle all their overseas transactions as well, I expect. And the stuff that's in the bonded warehouses, and the printing of the price lists, and the updating of the website, and... No, it previous years it has happened a few days later, typically the Sunday after the budget. In short, and in closing, you're talking out of your arse. HTH, HAND, etc, etc. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and go and talk to the Catholics.
Tsssk, lightweights. I already pay about that amount of tax and I'm not anywhere near what darsy earns (I think)
My reply was over-simplistic for sure, but if they can't update a subset of prices simply and easily, then it must be a pretty Mickey Mouse system. Like that's news. You grumpy fucker.
JHC at a time of dwindling tax revenue he hits the revenue generating classes. And increases already high fuel costs. He really has turned out to be a prize fuckwit. <checks bank> <checks age> I'll be allright but Oggie's royally fucked.
Not sure what else he could do given the size of the debt, and that's based on low interest rates, I think I read somewhere that it's going to be about 28 billion a year at current rates just to service the interest payments..... Surprised he's not gone a lot further, but it's all based on wildly optimistic growth figures, so expect bad news when they get revised down. Good of the IMF to report worse figures than the chancellor announced only a couple of hours later, probably payback for a row over an IMF report that the treasury got them to pull when they didn't agree with the debt figures.
He could easily have offset the numbers. Slashing expenditure on social handouts and the NHS mainly. Scrapping Trident 2 in addition. Armed forces overheads. i could go on, but I won't.
2008 income & expenditure Chart 1.1: Government spending by function Total managed expenditure: £618 billion Other – £67bn Debt interest £31bn Public order and safety – £33bn Housing and environment – £23bn Industry, agriculture, employment and training – £22bn Defence – £33bn Education – £82bn Transport – £21bn Health – £111bn Personal social services – £27bn Social protection – £169bn Chart 1.2: Government receipts Total receipts: £575 billion Other - £84 bn Council tax - £25bn Business rates - £24bn VAT - £84bn Corporation tax - £52bn Excise duties - £42bn National Insurance - £105bn Income tax - £160bn So he could slash defence spending completely and it would still only pay the interest payments on our debt for a year. We're in the shit, and quite deeply.
Other: £67billion. Costs more than the police and the army together. ****, that's a lot of sundries.
