| Topic: The budget |
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| 1. Author: desparado Date: Wed 26th Nov 2025. 14:18 Just read that UK gov has announced a cool £20 million for the regeneration of Kirkcaldy town centre and promenade in the budget. Good for them but I wonder why Dunfermline is continually overlooked ? What an opportunity we missed in 2014. Reply |
| 2. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Wed 26th Nov 2025. 14:38 Cause Kirkcaldy is a Labour stronghold……absolute disgrace that they are getting more money to invest but the city looks to be over looked. Reply |
| 3. Author: wee eck Date: Wed 26th Nov 2025. 14:44 I wondered why Kirkcaldy was being singled out. Gordon Brown having a word in the Chancellor`s ear maybe? You have to laugh at folk thinking Scotland would not be capable of running its own affairs when Westminster can`t manage to make a Budget announcement without it being leaked by a public body independent of the Government. Reply |
| 4. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Wed 26th Nov 2025. 15:17 The early release was shambolic. The hollering over the actual budget announcement from Reeves was just as bad. Some of it was inaudible because of the rabble being blurted out by both sides. Scotland should be thankful! Over £800m from our masters coming our way…… Reply |
| 5. Author: ipswichpar Date: Wed 26th Nov 2025. 15:21 No idea why the speakers just don`t start firing folk and telling them to get out. Reply |
| 6. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Wed 26th Nov 2025. 15:29 Usual "House Jock" staged question yesterday about NHS waiting lists in Ayrshire, posed to Wes Streeting ! Since health is devolved why didn`t the Speaker stop it? Reply |
| 7. Author: desparado Date: Wed 26th Nov 2025. 15:53 Well if KDY is getting millions from UK Gov then surely Dunfermline should be getting a bigger share of the pot from Fife Council funds that are delivered from Holyrood ? Maybe our invisible Red Tory MP can fight our corner? What an opportunity we missed in 2014. Reply |
| 8. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Wed 26th Nov 2025. 16:38 desparado, Wed 26 Nov 15:53 But, but....The town square????? Reply |
| 9. Author: The One Who Knocks Date: Wed 26th Nov 2025. 18:49 Reading the BBC earlier and it`s got one of those articles where they talk to all different people with different circumstances and how they feel about the budget. One of them was a guy with a household income above 100k who is not happy with the reduction in the cash ISA limit from 20k to 12k. Will cost him a couple of hundred pounds in interest per year. I`m not sure if he`s classed as one of the fabled `squeezed middle`. And although my eyes were open They just might as well be closed Reply |
| 10. Author: ipswichpar Date: Wed 26th Nov 2025. 18:58 The very well know loss aversion in action. I`ve known loads of people who are massively focused on minimise tax for retirement and pension reasons even if they don`t actually need the money. It could be they have only one earner in that couple and they want to keep below 100k, or he wants to keep below the higher tax rate at 50k or wherever it is. And even if they benefit elsewhere they`ll be ignoring that and focusing only on the loss I`m sure. Reply |
| 11. Author: jake89 Date: Wed 26th Nov 2025. 19:29 desparado, Wed 26 Nov 15:53 Yeah, good one. Everyone knows the money has gone to central Fife since 1996. Easily the worst public realm in Fife when you go down Dunfermline High Street. The "City Square" is just a cheap waste of time and they know it. Reply |
| 12. Author: Buspasspar Date: Wed 26th Nov 2025. 20:37 What we need to remind is that we are still trying to fix the huge debts and mismanagement left to Labour by the Tory`s If we all have to contribute a wee bit extra to fix it then so be it Towks post at 18.49 just shows the gap and attitude .. that has grown wider between the rich and poor over the last 10 years We are forever shaped by the Children we once were Reply |
| 13. Author: Tad Allagash Date: Wed 26th Nov 2025. 23:37 And I can’t even sail my yacht She’s taken everything I’ve got All I’ve got’s this sunny afternoon The trouble is Buspasspar, we don’t ALL have to contribute a wee bit extra - just the (increasingly small proportion of) workers. And taxing income isn’t taxing wealth nowadays. Reply |
| 14. Author: The One Who Knocks Date: Wed 26th Nov 2025. 23:57 Some folks are born silver spoon in hand Lord, don`t they help themselves, But when the taxman come to the door, Lord, the house lookin` like a rummage sale, yeah. Prefer that song Ted And although my eyes were open They just might as well be closed Reply |
| 15. Author: ipswichpar Date: Thu 27th Nov 2025. 07:54 I`m surprised they kept the triple lock for all these wealthy and asset rich pensioners if I`m honest. Reply |
| 16. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Thu 27th Nov 2025. 09:03 Triple lock will mean my 71yr old wife will pay tax next year on her State pension, first time since she worked in 2018! Someone calculated that the tax paid would be the equivalent of the winter fuel payment, smoke and mirrors?🤔😡 Reply |
| 17. Author: ipswichpar Date: Thu 27th Nov 2025. 09:20 People below 35k would have been better off with the personal allowance being increased. Chancellor on the radio telling me how great it is she has decided to take more money off people and spend it how she thinks her back benchers think it should be spent, even though the vast majority of the voting public disagree with it. I suspect much of this is at the feet of that weirdo Torsten Bell. It might be nice if she linked a thank you to the British people to supporting the investments to improve things. It`s their money, not hers. Reply |
| 18. Author: The One Who Knocks Date: Thu 27th Nov 2025. 09:38 She might be alright LA. Once the new triple lock boost is applied the weekly state pension is a maximum of £241 quid a week or £12549 per annum. The personal tax allowance is staying at £12570. And although my eyes were open They just might as well be closed Reply |
| 19. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Thu 27th Nov 2025. 10:04 The One Who Knocks, Thu 27 Nov 09:38 If things don`t change 2026/27 will be the defining year, if we`re still alive!🤔 Reply |
| 20. Author: charlie1 Date: Thu 27th Nov 2025. 10:19 LochgellyAlbert, Thu 27 Nov 09:03 The new pension rate is only £21 above the tax threshold. Government have stated if this is your sole income they will not apply tax - would be £4.20 per year. Would cost far more to administer! Reply |