I think you've all moved on since the earlier discussion about taxes and what they pay for but I thought you might be interested in the list below. Yesterday I received my tax code for next year from HMRC and it included a list of what the tax I paid last year was spent on so I converted the figures to percentages. They say it's all rounded up/down and it's not clear to me what is covered under each heading, welfare for example.
Welfare 25.00%
Health 19.93%
State Pensions 12.81%
Education 11.99%
National debt interest 5.27%
Defence 5.21%
Public Order & safety 4.32%
Transport 3.97%
Business & Industry 2.4%
Govt. Admin 1.99%
Culture (sports,libraries,museums) 1.71%
Environment 1.58%
Housing & Utilities eg street lights 1.37%
Overseas Aid 1.23%
UK contribution to the EU budget 1.1%
I received the same last year and the next thing I want to do is compare the two to see what's gone up and what's gone down.
Hubby is a motor vehicle technician been in the trade since he was 15, last March he went part-time, 3 days a week, (part-retired) the rest of the workforce do 5.5 days, the hours go up on the wall, he is 100% efficient, a lot of the others much less so. last year, company employed these "time and efficiency/motion people," who stood round giving (ridiculous) suggestions, and guess what the company paid a fortune for these people, to er save a fortune!!!
NB - sometimes, if you've been doing something for years it's hard to see how to improve it without an objective eye but all too often such studies and the consultants involved are too much "emperor's clothes" to be of value.
Yes Dove. How are they now going to spend that princely 1.1%? Huge chunks are already being used to hire negotiators to do what was formerly done by the EU - trade agreements etc - as well as to negotiate the exit from the EU. Ironic.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Wow and wow.....have been having a nice time with family in Manchester/Cheshire and have missed all the politicking on here ......missed ????
Grandma , mum and granddaughter were supposed to leave on a (40th) birthday prepaid getaway yesterday .....Sunday morning my daughter discovered a couple of tiny spots on GD's back.......chicken pox she cried !... Monday .....more spots.....Tuesday full blown .....I'd forgotten how quickly CP spreads.
I arrived back in Moscow today .....it was -25 overnight .....doubt if we will see snowdrops anytime soon
There are snowdrops all over grass verges in N Suffolk and S Norfolk, love them. And I love Dove's orange begonia. I like begonias, one plant with bright flowers that will grow in shade. I buy plug plants every year, haven't had much luck keeping corms over winter. They don't feel like plastic when stroked.
We had a look round a couple of villages in Suffolk and had a light lunch in a pub we hadn't tried before.
Just as well we didn't stay in. The new next door neighbours' brown lab was crying this morning and still crying when we got back. It did it when we were here in January then it wasn't there so I thought they were dog sitting. But it's back now and they are out at work all day. Drives me nuts, partly because of feeling sorry for it and partly because of the noise.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think you've all moved on since the earlier discussion about taxes and what they pay for but I thought you might be interested in the list below. Yesterday I received my tax code for next year from HMRC and it included a list of what the tax I paid last year was spent on so I converted the figures to percentages. They say it's all rounded up/down and it's not clear to me what is covered under each heading, welfare for example.
Welfare 25.00%
Health 19.93%
State Pensions 12.81%
Education 11.99%
National debt interest 5.27%
Defence 5.21%
Public Order & safety 4.32%
Transport 3.97%
Business & Industry 2.4%
Govt. Admin 1.99%
Culture (sports,libraries,museums) 1.71%
Environment 1.58%
Housing & Utilities eg street lights 1.37%
Overseas Aid 1.23%
UK contribution to the EU budget 1.1%
I received the same last year and the next thing I want to do is compare the two to see what's gone up and what's gone down.
That's really interesting Dyersend. Thanks.
Seems odd to have such low spending on environment and housing when they are so essential to human health and happiness and culture so low too.
Hubby is a motor vehicle technician been in the trade since he was 15, last March he went part-time, 3 days a week, (part-retired) the rest of the workforce do 5.5 days, the hours go up on the wall, he is 100% efficient, a lot of the others much less so. last year, company employed these "time and efficiency/motion people," who stood round giving (ridiculous) suggestions, and guess what the company paid a fortune for these people, to er save a fortune!!!
Interesting too that our contribution to the EU budget was the lowest ... even less than the amount spent on running the UK government
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
NB - sometimes, if you've been doing something for years it's hard to see how to improve it without an objective eye but all too often such studies and the consultants involved are too much "emperor's clothes" to be of value.
Yes Dove. How are they now going to spend that princely 1.1%? Huge chunks are already being used to hire negotiators to do what was formerly done by the EU - trade agreements etc - as well as to negotiate the exit from the EU. Ironic.
We do sweet, bit cold though and getting colder so they say.
i would love some gladdies, I’ve got sand so they should do well, thank you?
Dove, did you dry that corm off and keep it indoors, it’s a lovely Begonia.
Wow and wow.....have been having a nice time with family in Manchester/Cheshire and have missed all the politicking on here ......missed ????
Grandma , mum and granddaughter were supposed to leave on a (40th) birthday prepaid getaway yesterday .....Sunday morning my daughter discovered a couple of tiny spots on GD's back.......chicken pox she cried !... Monday .....more spots.....Tuesday full blown .....I'd forgotten how quickly CP spreads.
I arrived back in Moscow today .....it was -25 overnight .....doubt if we will see snowdrops anytime soon
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There are snowdrops all over grass verges in N Suffolk and S Norfolk, love them. And I love Dove's orange begonia. I like begonias, one plant with bright flowers that will grow in shade. I buy plug plants every year, haven't had much luck keeping corms over winter. They don't feel like plastic when stroked.
We had a look round a couple of villages in Suffolk and had a light lunch in a pub we hadn't tried before.
Just as well we didn't stay in. The new next door neighbours' brown lab was crying this morning and still crying when we got back. It did it when we were here in January then it wasn't there so I thought they were dog sitting. But it's back now and they are out at work all day. Drives me nuts, partly because of feeling sorry for it and partly because of the noise.
Last edited: 21 February 2018 18:14:08