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# To follow my reduction in the base rate of VAT
I am further proposing to shaft anyone with an income above £20,000 p.a. by increasing N.I contributions by one-half a percent from 2011.

Smug Bastard
(, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 9:49, archived)
# Alistair Darling is a child's drawing of a man.
(, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 9:51, archived)
# lovely complexion
(, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 9:51, archived)
# Bollocks!
(, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 9:53, archived)
# My image or Darling?
(, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 9:54, archived)
# the proposed NI increase
Darling is simply Darling. Well done that man. Sorry about any confusion
(, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 9:55, archived)
# S'ok
I couldn't believe it when he said the increase would be offset so anyone earning over £20k p.a. will have to pay it.

Because of course, those of us earning over £20k are so wealthy we deserve to have all that extra cash we MUST have taken away.
(, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 9:58, archived)
# I never thought I'd be pleased to be earning the
rather insulting pittance that I do.
(, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 9:59, archived)
# I really need to win some kind of lottery-based competition in the next couple of years...
(, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 10:04, archived)
# Not the lottery but
I'd already decided before I finished university a couple of years ago that I would get a few years experience behind me then leave this "country".
(, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 10:09, archived)