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Emergency Budget – Summary of issues affecting businesses

Submitted by JMB on Tue 22/Jun/2010

A quick summary of the key points for business in the Emergency Budget is available here:

http://www.reachinsurance.co.uk/emergency-budget-good-business

The VAT rise – at 20% higher than analysts were predicting - seems a spectacularly bad idea to me, but I’m still working through the details. And all of the options available at this point seem unpalatable.

If you’re in Bristol this afternoon, there is a big gathering of the “Bristol Convention of the Left Rally: Their Crisis - Who Pays?” at College Green. This seems admirably honest, as the current financial situation of the UK (and other economies) is indeed down to the left. If you want someone to blame, you could do worse than start with this lot:

  • Ken Loach - Film Director
  • Bernard Kennedy - Branch Secretary ASLEF Bristol
  • John Drake - Secretary FBU SW Region (p.c.)
  • Bristol Stop the War
  • Bristol Defend the Asylum Seekers Campaign
  • Bristol Unite Against Fascism
  • Right to Work Campaign
  • Matt Gordon - Youth Fight for Jobs
  • Carol Meghji - International Officer UNISON UWE (p.c.)
  • Jerry Hicks - Candidate for UNITE General Secretary
  • Julie Boston - Campaign for Free Public Transport
  • Katie Buse - Green Party (p.c.)
  • Socialist Workers Party
  • Paul Smith - Labour Party
  • Gurchetan Shoker - NUT Rep Ashton Park School
  • Paulette North - Secretary Joint Unions at City Academy
  • Dave Wilshire- Secretary Bristol and District CWU (p.c.)
  • Glen Burrows - Bristol RMT (p.c.)
  • John McInally - PCS National Vice President
  • National Shop Stewards Network (South West)
P.S. In case you were wondering, it's you that pays. Always.

Bristol Council Budget Crisis (2009)

Submitted by JMB on Thu 02/Jul/2009

This year the shape of the hole in Bristol’s budget is “£30 million over three years”.

The new Lib Dem team cut this one a bit fine, as it’s almost time to announce the 2010 budget crisis. Commemorative mugs, hats, pennants and T-Shirts to follow.

BEP: Bristol City Council to cut £30m in three years

In other news: David Hasselhoff spotted at Gordano services; Cyclist jailed for knife threats; Economy still knackered.

Taxpayers' Alliance Update: "Best of the Budgets" would provide a 2.2% tax cut

Submitted by JMB on Mon 23/Feb/2009

Some thoughts from the local branch of the Taxpayers' Alliance:

The Taxpayers' Alliance (TPA) wishes to congratulate all the political parties currently represented on Bristol City Council for the efforts to identify potential areas where the burden of taxation can be lifted from local residents, and urges the different parties to pool their best ideas to produce a “Best of the Budgets”, which would deliver a 2.2% tax cut for Bristol taxpayers. The Bristol Branch of the TPA has studied the proposals of each party and calculated that if the ruling Labour executive was to take on the savings proposals put forward by the Liberal Democrats, Conservatives and Greens as well, then £11 million could be saved from the Council’s spending.

Full Article: TaxPayers’ Alliance urges Bristol politicians to co-operate to cut taxes
“Best of the Budgets” would provide a 2.2% tax cut

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