Chancellor's statement live

[brogdale]

Obviously assuming that you find, order and eat 3 meals per day costing £20 a pop.

 

[magneze]

Exactly; even if you thought so little of your health that you maxed out on Sunak's deal, you'd only 'save' £130, (there being 13 M/T/Ws in August with max £10 discount per head).

But hold on...no...it's better than that, isn't it?
If you went for the full-on my 600lb hell and went for 3 meals out on each of those days that's £390 'savings'.

Great news for NHS staff who are being charged for parking again.

 

[brogdale]

Great news for NHS staff who are being charged for parking again.

certainly not, especially those on cardiac/diabetes wards

 

[rutabowa]

I used to buy Biltong from an African butcher’s shop in Leeds market and expats would be queueing up to buy big bags of chicken feet. Not my idea of dinner tbf but some people must love them (they were one of his biggest sellers)

I know they are really popular across the world... I had them in soup once at a Chinese place, it is just a bit of skin on a small bone no meat at all... and they look horrific sticking out.

 

[brogdale]

Interesting that it took the New, New Labour response from Anneliesse Dodds to point out to Sunak that his BOGOF-style offers and 'job creation' schemes count for nothing unless the 'government' can give punters the confidence to go out. The economic crisis is not primarily an economic issue, but a public health one.

 

[IC3D]

As a health care worker I'd like to return the claps for money, any mention of this?

 

[Sprocket.]

Turkey’s feet and chips all round.

 

[eatmorecheese]

I believe you were giving me a monkey, Mr Sunak

 

[andysays]

Why the hell would they have talked to journalists about the £500 voucher idea before announcing this crap?

If you look at the original story in the Guardian, the headline
Sunak considers £500 vouchers for all UK adults to spend in Covid-hit firms
and the opening sentence

Radical plans to give all adults £500 and children £250 in vouchers to spend in sectors of the economy worst hit by the Covid-19 crisis are being considered by the Treasury

suggest that it's actively being considered, but if you read the story a bit more closely, the nearest it comes to any substantive comment from the government is this

Last night, ahead of a "summer update" on the state of the stricken economy by the chancellor Rishi Sunak on Wednesday, the Treasury refused to rule out introducing a similar scheme in the short or medium term.

Another one for the "why the Guardian is shit" thread, I fancy

 

[Sue]

If you look at the original story in the Guardian, the headline
Sunak considers £500 vouchers for all UK adults to spend in Covid-hit firms
and the opening sentence

suggest that it's actively being considered, but if you read the story a bit more closely, the nearest it comes to any substantive comment from the government is this

Another one for the "why the Guardian is shit" thread, I fancy

TBF, a quick Google tells me it was mentioned as being considered in a whole raft of papers.

 

[IC3D]

andysays Have you not noticed a constant stream of anoyinsements from them that just seems to fade away I believe its called spin. I'm sure DC et el are using a few psychology papers when pumping out this stream of shite.

 

[Sprocket.]

I believe you were giving me a monkey, Mr Sunak

The monkey is off the table, you get a half chicken instead.

 

[andysays]

TBF, a quick Google tells me it was mentioned as being considered in a whole raft of papers.

Yeah, but the "Why the Guardian and lots of other papers are shit" thread doesn't have quite the same ring to it (and it was on the basis of the Guardian article that it was being discussed here, see OU's thread)

 

[maomao]

andysays Have you not noticed a constant stream of anoyinsements from them that just seems to fade away I believe its called spin. I'm sure DC et el are using a few psychology papers when pumping out this stream of shite.

Their psychologists are a bit shit if they think widely floating the idea of giving everyone five hundred nicker is a good way to impress people with your policy of half a free pizza.

 

[platinumsage]

TBF, a quick Google tells me it was mentioned as being considered in a whole raft of papers.

The Guardian did it first on the 4th of July. Presumably all the other papers didn't read the Guardian article carefully enough before publishing their own stories.

 

[rutabowa]

Their psychologists are a bit shit if they think widely floating the idea of giving everyone five hundred nicker is a good way to impress people with your policy of half a free pizza.

Maybe the other side has psychologists too

 

[andysays]

Their psychologists are a bit shit if they think widely floating the idea of giving everyone five hundred nicker is a good way to impress people with your policy of half a free pizza.

The usual way of spinning is to suggest you're going to do something bad, and then everyone is (supposedly) relieved when you do something not quite so bad.

If it was deliberate spinning, they seem to have got it arse about face this time.

 

[Teaboy]

There is no way anyone was getting £500. They've just done the whole furlough thing and even that money went to businesses.

 

[campanula]

I was so looking forward to a £500 bung, seeing it as frivolity money and easily spendable. I have just been paid £260 for some gardening work. It is sitting on my computer desk right now but I find I am completely paralysed about actually spending it. Having been so spectacularly penniless for years, I have trained myself out of buying stuff (apart from food and bills) so I find myself unable to choose how to spend this...even though I have been employed for the forseeable future, I am a bit alarmed that I am going to lose my ability to be cheerfully skint...and thrown back into that frustrating world of consumer participation but still not having quite enough to do so without guilt. It is a conundrum (first world problems).

 

[Nine Bob Note]

I want my £500. I was planning on spending it in the toy shop

 

[Badgers]

Are we getting £500?

 

[Anju]

I'm setting up a ltd company tomorrow, employing every person under 25 I can find to go on their phones and play games all day and we'll split the money.

 

[Brainaddict]

Just caught up with this. What a half-arsed load of bollocks. Nowhere near what's required.

Half-arsed is generous. Quarter-arsed. One eighth of an arse, even.

 

[Teaboy]

Does anyone know whether this stamp duty holiday will apply to people who already own property? Could be a massive bung for btl landlords?

 

[Roadkill]

Half-arsed is generous. Quarter-arsed. One eighth of an arse, even.

A pimple on one buttock, perhaps?

 

[Sprocket.]

Are we getting £500?

Apparently not, it’s Orang Utan who got our hopes up.

 

[Badgers]

How do I get my double glazing money? Is it cash or into my account?

 

[Badgers]

Apparently not, it’s Orang Utan who got our hopes up.

FFS

 

[Teaboy]

Are we getting £500?

Fearlessly asking the question no one else dares?

 

[platinumsage]

Does anyone know whether this stamp duty holiday will apply to people who already own property? Could be a massive bung for btl landlords?

Yes it applies to everyone, although the 3% additional rate will continue as normal for those owning more than one property.