The Budget 2009
Hi Everyone :-)
The Budget has been upsetting alot of people this week :cry: and the Fiscal Experts are saying that the figures do not stack up, and householders will be paying out an additional £1.4k per year to pay for the budget's shortcomings. It's all a bit worrying that there is such a lack of faith in the budget since clearly this country along with others right now needs a big helping hand.
For now I would like to share an abridged version of the budget relevant to the voluntary and community sector. It beats you having to wade through a rather
April 24th, 2009 Employment, Mentoring/Coaching Tags: apprenticeship, Child Poverty, Child Tax Credit, Creative Industries, Education, HMRC, ISLAMIC FINANCE, Jobcentre Plus, Rapid Response Service, Social Fund, Train to Gain, VAT, vehicle scrappage scheme, Winter Fuel Payment, Working Capital Scheme 0 Comment
Last Thursday saw the denouement of the Wire’s first series 1 on BBC2.
In case you been on Mars, the Wire is basically a cop show, but then so much more: The fact that it took the BBC five years to acquire & the BBC remains incapable of matching the Wire, is a pertinent wake up call, acutely illustrating how Government involvement is too often woefully deficient in terms of delivery.
The Wire is indeed perhaps the ultimate cop show but I want to call attention to its commentary on why contemporary democratic Government often goes awry.
