So I deliberately didn’t write about the budget yesterday. I was too annoyed and I would write the wrong thing. But today, I am a little calmer. This post is about how the budget affects me, expect broader posts as the week go on. Basically this is a rant! Overall I am not happy with the budget. That is fairly obvious. While I myself am not massively hit straight away, my pay package from the 1st of January will...
Image via Wikipedia Euractive have a very interesting article on the talks between EU Economic Commissioner Olli Rehn and the Irish Government and Opposition. “He asked us our view and I told him we had no confidence in this government, and the thing that would give more stability to the country is an election and a government in place that had a significant working majority,” said Michael Noonan, finance spokesman for the centre-right Fine Gael party This of...
Image via Wikipedia If you are looking for indepth stuff on the budget, you wont find it here! Vists Suzy and Irish Election if you are looking for that sort of stuff! This is my reaction to the budget, which I mostly missed due to college. Hence why I wasnt tweeting. General Reaction: My first reaction is that this budget won’t make a whole load of difference to me. Things may get cheaper with VAT and Excise cuts, but...
As I apporached today I was fearful that they would do something that would directly effect me (Im selfish I know). But as someone on minimum wage I thought they might do something to the tax limits, but they didn’t. What did you make of the Bludget?
So the bludget is tomorrow and as my boss said, the country is flucked! The Government cannot put the blame for this tough budget on outside forces. They have been in Government now for nearly 12 years and must share some of the blame. I was at a fundraising lunch on Friday for Colm Burke and the Guest speakers were Pat Cox and Brian Lucy. Coming out of that lunch I was depressed. Its not looking good for us....
The above was on a hand made sign at the education protest in Cork City last Saturday. It was one of the largest protests I have seen in Cork especially in comparison to the student protest on fees earlier this year and the protest I was on back in 2004 on fees. From my work I could see the protest passing which seamed very colourful and enjoyed the support of shoppers. It took the protest a good 45 minutes...
There is a post on Iain Dale’s Blog about 15 reasons why a VAT cut won’t help so how many of them also apply to the VAT increase that will occur hear on the 1st of December. 1. Deflationary for the next 12 months Inflation Gaurenteed to be at leats 1.1% 2. Reduces business liquidity possibly by over £1bn Yup, the same affect not sure about the value 3. Little or no help to SME’s in the B2B sector...
Fine Gael has launched its winter campaign against the Government and shows no sign of resting on its poll poistion. The campaign aims to highlight the governments mistakes and Fine Gael’s alternative to the budget. The campiagn consists of a website with online videos, regional meetings and asking people for there say. Speaking on the launch of the campaign Fine Gael Leader, Enda Kenny said We want to hear what the public have to say about the future direction...
I have been following Redmum very closely on this issue has she has some excellent links and footage of Harneys statement in the Dail. She has some excellent posts which include links and ideas to try and change the Governments mind on this issue. *HPV vaccination programme ‘put on hold’ *Email Harney photographs of your daughters *Some more action on Cervical Cancer She has also linked to a petition so please sign it! Also Grandad has an excellent post...
So we have had two major(ish) u-turns on the latest budget. One on medical cards, but still 5% of pensioners will lose their medical card and one on the 1% “Lenihan Levy” which means that if you earn €17,540 you don’t pay tax but if you earn €17,541 you do as P. O’Neil points out over in Irish Election. I’m still not happy with that as I work in retail so therefore have to work Sundays and public holidays...
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