I've never been more over the moon.........

[Auric Goldfinger]

My monthly pension has gone up today by  £5.40p      I assume less tax  

 

Do I spend it     or save it...............

[moley]

1 hour ago, Auric Goldfinger said:

My monthly pension has gone up today by  £5.40p      I assume less tax  

 

Do I spend it     or save it...............

It'll pay for the new sugar tax.

[Auric Goldfinger]

11 minutes ago, moley said:

It'll pay for the new sugar tax.

 

Never thought of that Mac....................

 

 

Edited 6 April, 2018 by Auric Goldfinger

[lol-lol]

1 hour ago, Auric Goldfinger said:

My monthly pension has gone up today by  £5.40p      I assume less tax  

 

Do I spend it     or save it...............

 

But the tax free allowance has gone up by 3%  (but Retail Price Inflation - All Items is running at 3.6%)

 

 Mr Micawber's famous, and oft-quoted, recipe for happiness:

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

 

 

 

 

[Brimma]

I can feel a new car coming on 

[VWD]

On 4/6/2018 at 20:41, lol-lol said:

Mr Micawber's famous, and oft-quoted, recipe for happiness:

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

 

 

 

 

Something that should be burned into the brain of every Labour Chancellor,

[lol-lol]

3 hours ago, VWD said:

Something that should be burned into the brain of every Labour Chancellor,

 

And yet it is this decade, 2010-2018/9,  ie since the Cons have been in power that UK national debt as a percentage of GDP has significantly risen when the only time that has happened before was in war time.

 

Yes UK gov bailed out the banks ie Royal Bank of Scotland and Halifax Bank of Scotland and had to borrow a couple of hundred billion to do so but despite promises from George Osborne and Philip Hammond to balance the books by first 2015, then 2020 then 2022 and now no date set,  said to be due to BREXIT impact, the best we can hope for is the UK national debt only rising by less than inflation ie 20 billion a year being added to the current near 2 trillion pound debt (it was 1 trillion in 2010) of the UK !  

Due to the failure of the UK economy to recover from the financial recession of 2008-09 many of those bank share have been sold off at an effective loss.

 

[Ttaskmaster]

On 09/04/2018 at 08:18, Brimma said:

I can feel a new car coming on 

With that money? We'll be lucky if it gets him a pub lunch and us a "Guess what I just ate" thread pic of his empty plate!

[Tilt]

On 4/6/2018 at 18:50, Auric Goldfinger said:

My monthly pension has gone up today by  £5.40p      I assume less tax  

 

Do I spend it     or save it...............

 

Save it for a rainy day pal, Lol.

[penguin17]

8 minutes ago, Tilt said:

 

Save it for a rainy day pal, Lol.

Indeed.  Skoda charge £20 for an umbrella so you'll have to save for said rainy day.