Lets not talk about the economy lets talk about sugar.

[Ribenapigeon]

Clever move George, bung in a sugar tax and sit back and relax as the media fill air time with shite about sugary drinks instead of reporting on the rest of the budget.

[J4mes]

fuck the sugar tax, this new savings isa has got my interest.

[Polarbear]

[Skudd]

The old, if you are fat you are thick, lazy and a drain on society, anorexics must be the new Gods of this society. I lost 9 stone last year so I deserve a pay rise and free something or other. Bring back the Window Tax and the salt tax.
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[Itchy]

[Rogerborg]

I'm sure we'll do away with the Sugar Tax once we've won the war on porkers.

If we're taxing anything that's bad for you, wouldn't that include comfy chairs and religious spellbooks?
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[The Wobbly Orange]

Seems like a fairly light touch budget to me, more of the same with a few economies due to reduced global growth.


In a word......"shrugs"
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[Itchy]

[Ribenapigeon]

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[Polarbear]

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[Lord Percy]

Can't remember where I saw it now but I read that one thing Osborne is doing is making public spending incredibly high in certain areas, I think infrastructure and certain pet projects, so then in the last year or two before the next election he can spend far, far less on those things so he'll appear to have cooked balanced the books as promised. Then the next election comes around and that spending has to be slapped back on so once again the deficit exists.

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[Ste]

The problem with that line of thought is that cannabis isn't a physically addictive substance.

People only claim to be addicted because in court it counts as a mitigating factor and judges buy into it.

[Matt B]

Sugar tax, not bothered.

What did bother me though was the self-serving media whore Jamie Oliver jumping on the bandwagon, getting interviewed outside the Houses of Parliament and using it as free marketing whilst claiming it as some kind of personal moral victory. Feckin twat that he is, the guy is turning into the food equivalent of Mary Whitehouse.
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