Today is the Day!

Posted 22 Jun 2010 by Walaa Idris

I expect today’s Emergency Budget to have a mix of deep cuts and tax rises, I also expect it to hurt some more than others. But I don’t expect it to be unfair. By that I mean the cuts will affect services and areas that can handle it and probably need it and can do with some trimming, the same with taxes, they will hit area and those who can afford them.

So why am I so optimistic and up beat about Cuts & Taxes?

Well, after 13 years of Labour where the State is the be all and end all, 13 years of a bloated and inflated government sectors a little trimming is just what the country needs if it were to grow organically on a solid business and economic foundation and not superficially on a manufactured underpinning.

But sadly there will also be a few innocent casualties – in life as in war there will always be collateral damage!

Personally, I am keeping an open mind [no, not because I am a Conservative] but because I always new that whatever goes up must come down, living and working under a Labour government I new one day all this senseless give, give, give had to come to an end, and that day is here today!

3 comment(s)

Sally Roberts

Sally Roberts
22 Jun, 10:05

Always good to be optimistic, Walaa! I think this Budget will indeed hurt some people – but I am afraid that they should remember that the pain has really been caused by 13 years of Labour mismanagement and profligacy. I hope that the Chancellor will provide some hope in the form of fiscal encouragement to create more private sector jobs, to sweeten the pain.

Ian Matthews

Ian Matthews
22 Jun, 10:46

Hello Wal

I am Mancman10 on Twitter.

I totally disagree in cuts this year. Yes there has to be cuts but realistic cuts in a years time when we have more growth, the eurozone is more settled(Our key trading partners) and not when the country is barely out of recession & when unemployment is rising.

You say a little trimming but it will be far more than that when the autumn spending review comes around and it will be disproportionately unfair cuts as they are going to be targeted most in the North, The West & Scotland which as the tories always do in the main, target Labour areas.

I find it shocking that Ministers say cuts & smile when they do it but it’s not them who have to go to the job centre & sign on. Yes there has been some waste but after 18 years of tory underinvestment in public services (Michael Gove admitted this during the election) Labour had to spend to improve Schools,Hospitals & our general standing of living.

In a years time we will know which party was right & which was wrong but i rather think that the deep cuts now & they will deep(Not trimming as you put it) will have a catastrophic effect on the country as it simply does not add up to throw a load of people on the dole & expect this to help our economy.

I fear the worst but truly hope it doesn’t go the way of the early 80s or early 90s which had record unemployment, interest rates, business failures & repossessions (Yes, that was under the tories for anybody with a bad memory!)

Only time will tell

Walaa

Walaa
24 Jun, 11:06

Ian, Now that the emergency budget’s dust has settled do you still feel the same?

Party politics aside I still feel it was a firm [a move the country desperately needed] but also fair [not hurting those who need help and support the most] budget that covered all angles thoughtfully.

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