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Actually it seems we will be £550 better off (a lot of that is 3 kids and Dh's income being quite low and me being a debt dependent student)

Can't complain

But still for the low income people who will suffer. Been there, its Hell.

I don't like the idea of tories in power any way, i've listened to there stuff and think where is cameron going to find the money to do everything he has said! But really don't like the idea of brown in power!

I'd love to be better off but we'll see!

It doesn't seem a very Labour budget though. I mean you could argue that none of them have been but this one less so - I really think it is appealing to the middle england floating voters that Brown and Cameron are fighting over. And the poorer people - well they have nowhere really to go politically so he doesn't need to appease them.

I do agree Bozza. FWIW we are much better off with WTC system (even with its quirks, which we have fallen foul of a few times- nonetheless that served to remind us where we would be otherwise).

And as we are reliant on the NHS childrens disability unit, well its shite atm- I bet it would be far mroe shite under the Tories, I mean I remember working inder them and it was awful!

I also remember working for the VAT office over budget time, and recall the large pile of envelopes, all numbered, that would arrive budget morning. We'd get a fax saying 'open envelope X' just before he would announce something and then we had to return the opthers unopened. Always wondered what was in the other envelopes......

(Was alrgely pre-internet, obv- doubt they do it like that now)

Why is most of it so far in the future - I lost track of the number of times he said "by 2010". WTF??? Surely there is a budget every year, and no-one knows who'll be in power by 2010, so any of the "by 2010" promises could actually never happen? Or is that just me being cynical?!? Something happening in 2010 means nothing to me now - who can say what I'll be earning then, what interest rates will be then, what inflation will have been in the meantime, etc etc.

who will be worse offthen? I thought I was a low income (10K)and I am better.

According to the news, single people earning under £15K (I suppose they lose on the tax band abolition and don't get any CB / WTC rise to compensate?)

suppose so .Sounds like my mate, she has a 4X4 too, she won't be happy!

We will be worse off.I'm self employed part time & don't earn much,so will be paying MORE tax due to Gb's tax cut.Don't get any help from CTC towards childcare either,so that won't help.