Titanic99 Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 It seemed such a good idea to me to help promote Health amongst the young and to reward those that have worked all their lives with a nice free activity. Well the new Government has decided to take this away from them as shown in the link. A bit galling to these people to know that they’ve lost this facility so that the well-off can get their next set of tax breaks. Cheers Nick for helping the nasty party get this implemented. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10343421.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berberis Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Can we afford it = No Money better spent elsewhere = Yes Is this another pointless thread by the forum one trick pony = Oh Yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titanic99 Posted June 18, 2010 Author Share Posted June 18, 2010 Can we afford it = No Money better spent elsewhere = Yes I'm sorry to disagree with you, but I'd rather my money went on providing this facility than on giving tax back to the rich. But each to their own I suppose! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFKvsNixon Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 I'm sorry to disagree with you, but I'd rather my money went on providing this facility than on giving tax back to the rich. But each to their own I suppose! Could you provide costings so we could see that your comparisons are valid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Well it was pensioners and children that got us into this mess in the first place so they should be the ones to suffer. Oh, hang about it wasn't them was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogs Of War Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 I'm sorry to disagree with you, but I'd rather my money went on providing this facility than on giving tax back to the rich. But each to their own I suppose! Because of Labours policy of constant borrowing when we couldn`t afford it , we now have to cut our cloth to fit. there are going to have to be cuts right across the board. for ths you can lay the blame firmly at the door of Labour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sibon Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Because of Labours policy of constant borrowing when we couldn`t afford it , we now have to cut our cloth to fit. there are going to have to be cuts right across the board. for ths you can lay the blame firmly at the door of Labour. Absolutely wrong. There have to be cuts, but the Con-Dems can choose exactly what to cut and by how much. In this case, I think that they are correct. They made a mess of several other decisions yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrobbo Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 It seemed such a good idea to me to help promote Health amongst the young and to reward those that have worked all their lives with a nice free activity. Well the new Government has decided to take this away from them as shown in the link. A bit galling to these people to know that they’ve lost this facility so that the well-off can get their next set of tax breaks. Cheers Nick for helping the nasty party get this implemented. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10343421.stm The Lib Dem controlled Sheffield council had refused to participate in free swimming for under-16s and pensioners. However, what with this and the cancellation of the Forge Master loan and much much more, the coalition government might soon be in a position to end the 50p tax rate for high earners. Let's see if it happens in Osborne's emergency budget next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titanic99 Posted June 18, 2010 Author Share Posted June 18, 2010 Could you provide costings so we could see that your comparisons are valid. The article shows the following as the cost "Ending the scheme on 31 July will save £40m of the £140m cost of the scheme, the government says." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFKvsNixon Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 The article shows the following as the cost "Ending the scheme on 31 July will save £40m of the £140m cost of the scheme, the government says." Don't you think that the money could have been better spent elsewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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