Hamond's U-Turn!

Foxholer said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39278968

He's done the same as Osborne!

I thought he was rather more 'savvy' than that!

Don't these guys realise how daft it makes them look? Or don't they pass the key elements of the Budget past key (and trusted to be secure!) party colleagues?
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It's a piddling broken manifesto commitment compared with the Single Market commitment they are also about to kick into the long grass. And here was me thinking that May was a control freak and a 'detail' person. Maybe she didn't read the Tories 2015 GE Manifesto.
 
Foxholer said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39278968

He's done the same as Osborne!

I thought he was rather more 'savvy' than that!

Don't these guys realise how daft it makes them look? Or don't they pass the key elements of the Budget past key (and trusted to be secure!) party colleagues?
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Does this look that daft?

Media and other parties try to play it up as looking like chaos and daft.

Something was proposed, there was uproar about it, it was looked into further, and then decision was changed before the decision was implemented into the law.
 
It is silly IMHO, this is one of the reasons why they are like they are now and do everything via the back door.

The dividend tax band reduction and / or Making tax digital implementation(ie. all small business will have to run computer accounting software and submit 5 submissions to HMRC a year), will cost vastly greatly for the self employed or small business, than the relative minor NIC measure.
 
Dasit said:
Does this look that daft?

Media and other parties try to play it up as looking like chaos and daft.

Something was proposed, there was uproar about it, it was looked into further, and then decision was changed before the decision was implemented into the law.
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It looks incompetent. If you are going to bring in a policy you look at it, talk it through, test the waters. Speak to people who have vested interests, find the flaws in it. When you are happy, take it to cabinet, ask them to find flaws in it, same again. When it has been thoroughly checked then you take it to parliament as a proposal. You iron out the issues behind closed doors and then have the bottle to stand by it when the time comes.

If you are bottling the decision within days, something Cameron became notorious for, then something was clearly not right with the proposal in the first place.
 
Well I'm happy with the u-turn, I don't care if they look silly, they made a call, the feedback they got was sufficient for them to change their view, I'd rather that than being stubborn and forcing it through come what May :smirk:
 
Dasit said:
Does this look that daft?

Media and other parties try to play it up as looking like chaos and daft.

Something was proposed, there was uproar about it, it was looked into further, and then decision was changed before the decision was implemented into the law.
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Doing a U-Turn is fine IMO - but being forced into one when it was obvious there was going to be an uproar over it - largely confected IMO - is plain daft
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
It's a piddling broken manifesto commitment compared with the Single Market commitment they are also about to kick into the long grass. And here was me thinking that May was a control freak and a 'detail' person. Maybe she didn't read the Tories 2015 GE Manifesto.
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.................who had "Budget National Insurance Changes" in the Forum Sweepstake as the next thing linked to "EU Single Market?" Rats...I had "Tiger withdraws from The Masters" :D (did I mention the Masters?)
 
No NI contributions towards state pension for the self employed now from April 2018 as Class 2 NIC will be scraped then! Unless of course there is another u turn and Class 2 will remain.
 
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