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22 Mar 2012 10:01 #80732
by The Captain
Flat beer, Marmite, football and the Budget March 22, 2012, 8:27 AM
Marmite
Like flat beer, Marmite and football, the Brits have a love affair with a good news story, especially when it involves a bit of a political donnybrook. That’s exactly what they got on Wednesday with the chancellor’s Budget for 2012, which either hobbled or further enriched the wealthy, depending on what side of Parliament you ask.
Needless to say, the story dominated the news outlets across the U.K. on Wednesday, and will likely continue to do so for the rest of the week, or at least until the next time Kate Middleton is spotted walking her pup. Here’s just a taste of the Budget fallout:
According to the Scottish Daily Record , “the shameless Tories carried out a 3-billion pound Gran Theft Osbo,†mugging the elderly to fund tax cuts for their “multimillionaire pals.â€
The Sun’s homepage accused Osborne of clobbering ordinary Brits and filling pockets in “the wrong trousers.†The Daily Mail agreed, saying Osborne “picks the pockets of pensioners.†Read more about the budget from MarketWatch.
The Telegraph was less caustic with its take on the Budget, as one editorial called it a “big, dangerous moment on tax.†Then, in a separate opinion piece , the paper chided Osborne for a “sleight of hand straight from the Brown textbook.â€
The Guardian jumped in with its share of bash-the-rich rhetoric, as well. The left-leaning paper described the Budget as “redistributive in just the wrong direction: taking from the poor to give to the rich.†It’s not a budget for recovery or to reward hard work, it’s a budget for sports-car dealers, another story charged, saying that the tax cut will fund a millionaire’s new Porsche.
The Independent ran with the Robin Hood theme and laid out which chancellors of yore took from the rich, and which ones didn’t.And finally, a more supportive stance, courtesy of the Financial Times editorial pages , which said the Budget was “an audacious gamble from the artful Osborne.
Needless to say, the story dominated the news outlets across the U.K. on Wednesday, and will likely continue to do so for the rest of the week, or at least until the next time Kate Middleton is spotted walking her pup. Here’s just a taste of the Budget fallout:
According to the Scottish Daily Record , “the shameless Tories carried out a 3-billion pound Gran Theft Osbo,†mugging the elderly to fund tax cuts for their “multimillionaire pals.â€
The Sun’s homepage accused Osborne of clobbering ordinary Brits and filling pockets in “the wrong trousers.†The Daily Mail agreed, saying Osborne “picks the pockets of pensioners.†Read more about the budget from MarketWatch.
The Telegraph was less caustic with its take on the Budget, as one editorial called it a “big, dangerous moment on tax.†Then, in a separate opinion piece , the paper chided Osborne for a “sleight of hand straight from the Brown textbook.â€
The Guardian jumped in with its share of bash-the-rich rhetoric, as well. The left-leaning paper described the Budget as “redistributive in just the wrong direction: taking from the poor to give to the rich.†It’s not a budget for recovery or to reward hard work, it’s a budget for sports-car dealers, another story charged, saying that the tax cut will fund a millionaire’s new Porsche.
The Independent ran with the Robin Hood theme and laid out which chancellors of yore took from the rich, and which ones didn’t.And finally, a more supportive stance, courtesy of the Financial Times editorial pages , which said the Budget was “an audacious gamble from the artful Osborne.
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22 Mar 2012 10:06 #80736
by ketchim
Marmite is a good budget food to help you play better Football ! 
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