Budget 2021

[-:Undertaker:-]

Budget 2021

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is to announce the UK budget to the House of Commons this afternoon

Chancellor Rishi Sunak leaves Downing Street ahead of #Budget2021, but what could be in his red box?

Find out with GB News: https://t.co/c8GPTxZ7CJ pic.twitter.com/egTpTZNXsE

— GB News (@GBNEWS) October 27, 2021

Budget day is the one day of the year you can drink at the Commons dispatch box. Choices include:

💧 Brown and his successors: water
🥃 Clarke: whisky
🍹 Lawson: spritzer
🍸 Howe: G&T
🥃 Healey, Disraeli: brandy & water
🥛 Dalton: rum and milk
🍷 Gladstone: sherry & beaten egg pic.twitter.com/QKEUjHpBk1

— James Heale (@JAHeale) October 27, 2021

Let's see what the Treasury announces.

[-:Undertaker:-]

An alright budget so far. Though as the old saying goes, what the Chancellor gives in one hand he takes away with another.

We’re increasing the National Living Wage by 59p an hour - a wage boost for millions of this country’s lowest paid workers.#Budget2021 #SpendingReview pic.twitter.com/uPljvA9N0Z

— HM Treasury (@hmtreasury) October 27, 2021

'Historic change' to alcohol taxes in Britain, with cheaper sparkling wine and draught beer reduced by 3p per pint, UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak announces in Budget speechhttps://t.co/VLuRxcVSoX

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) October 27, 2021

"Today's freeze means the average tank of fuel will cost around £15 less per car"

Planned rise in fuel duty has been cancelled, confirms Chancellor Rishi Sunakhttps://t.co/ofact9k6IL pic.twitter.com/EifizDJgun

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) October 27, 2021

50% discount in business rates for the retail and hospitality sector for the next year, up to a maximum of £110,000, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announceshttps://t.co/ofact9k6IL pic.twitter.com/83B8zntqVB

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) October 27, 2021

[Inseriousity.]

Surprised you aren't incensed by this Budget lol. High tax, high spending. Usually, a budget like this would've had you frothing at the mouth!

[FlyingJesus]

"Today's freeze means the average tank of fuel will cost around £15 less per car"... Than the amount they had planned to make it, not than it costs now lol. It's like promising you'll punch a kitten and then go nah actually I'll just stroke it like a normal person, victory for all.

There was good news for theatres and museums getting tax reliefs continued, don't imagine I'll see any personal changes or benefits but keeping the places open and running is obviously pretty decent

[-:Undertaker:-]

Surprised you aren't incensed by this Budget lol. High tax, high spending. Usually, a budget like this would've had you frothing at the mouth!

I was pro-more spending at the last General Election, especially on large projects like the Great Britain-Ulster sea tunnel. That said, I am pretty pissed off at the pair of them for congratulating themselves on getting the economy back on track when it was they with their ridiculous lockdown which crashed the economy in the first place. No act of God.

Other things too... Foreign Aid was cut, but will go back up in 2025. So it's a mixed bag but could be worse I guess.