Winners and Losers ~ March 22, 2012

Posted 22 Mar 2012 by Walaa Idris

Winners and Losers

This is a good week for both Conservatives and Lib Dems. After months of ping ponging between the Commons and the Lords and many amendments later, the Health and Social Care bill was quietly passed on Tuesday night.

Giving GPs the power to decide and mange patients’ care is one of the many logical changes that should have been introduced years ago. Love or loath the reforms, the NHS needed a shakeup and needed it yesterday. The only reason Labour is angry about them is because they are prove, Labour did not have the guts or the wit to make them when they had the chance.

Nobody likes change and we all know it is not always easy, but we will only truly know the effect of these changes after they are implemented and fully tested. However, leaving things as they were in the NHS and many other institutions was not an option. Not because this government wants or likes change but because if things don’t change these organizations will simply die.

For me less bureaucracy is always better, more efficient and that is at the heart of these reforms.

It is also the week George Osborn delivered his second budget. Considering the state of our economy – this budget is what the country needs, it is good for business and encourages individuals to work. It is a balanced budget and gives as much as it takes. Taking within reason from those with broader shoulders and giving with aspiration to hard working low income earners and those with families.

In my opinion, the most important things in yesterday’s budget is that it lifted millions out of tax all together by increasing personal allowance because people know best how to spend their own money and they are much happier when trusted with it. Plus it defused Labour’s deliberately planted time bomb, the 50p tax rate.

Despite the left’s efforts to paint it as a budget that snatched money from the old and venerable and those who worked hard all their lives! From this April pensioners will get the largest pension increase and a less complicated self-assessment system, giving them a better understanding and use of the system.

It is also a budget that says Britain is open for business. An invitation the whole nation will profit from, specially pensioners. When the economy flourishes everyone will benefit from its prosperity via lower inflation and better interest rates. We already saw this morning; as a result of yesterday’s announcements, Glaxo Smith Kline announcing they are to invest £500 million in the UK to create 1000 jobs due to cuts in patent profit tax.

Like many Chancellors before him, Osborn is attempting to close as many loopholes in taxation making it as difficult as possible for individuals and corporations to use creative taxation. While at the same time he reduced corporation tax to encourage more businesses to come and stay in the UK. All of that makes the Coalition Government a winner.

The Loser sadly is one of my favourite Hollywood greats who acted in movies such as, The Deer Hunter, The Godfather II and Goodfellas. Although I am not one to make a song and dance about lighthearted quips involving race or skin colour, plus do think sometimes we need to lighten up a little. Robert De Niro clearly did not think before speaking when he intrduced Mrs Obama by saying ‘the White House is not ready for a white First Lady’! And although it was funny, it still makes him a loser because the star of Midnight Run, Meet the Parents and Analyse This can definitely do better than that.

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Gail Something-Else

Gail Something-Else
20 Apr, 11:32

We made a song and dance about current issues instead!
As you’ve been so kind as to mention me in your blog before, I thought it only right to share with you.

Enjoy x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcYy-KGKFjs

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