The newspapers are bashing the Budget this morning...saying things along the lines of...
Grannie tax pays for cut in 50p tax rate for super rich!!
Of all the things that were pre-briefed, this one they kept very quiet about. No leak for this one...twas buried in the fine print. It is somewhat technical but pensioners will be worse off to the tune of £3billion per year...something between £200 or maybe even as much as £300 per year each.
Crumbs! thats not good is it.
It seems HMG are shocked at the response from the media.
Also
Another figure, this time from Sky News last night.
£9,800,000,000
I hope Ive put in the right amount of zeros there. It shows it like it is, rings home more if you put in all the zeros. But this is the amount of money the government will rake in from cigarette smokers next year alone. Yes indeed... in one year. £9.8 billion.
The 37p was a swingeing increase yesterday.
As was said on TV, you can see why the government dont bring in an outright ban on smoking.