What would you like to see in the Budget next month?

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michaels wrote: »

I am fed up with the BBC. Every day except today they have been moaning that:
1) There is not enough money for health
2) There is not enough money for social care for the elderly
3) Too many people are avoiding tax through the vagaries of the tax system

The govt decide to pay for more of (2) by reducing (3) so today (only) the BBC rather than welcoming the decision attack the govt for (possibly) breaking a manifesto promise on tax increases. Talk about wanting to have one's cake and eat it.

It's not just the BBC.

The government are planning to borrow £51.7bn this year and even more next.

No-one bats an eyelid but for some reason the national insurance change which represents about 0.3% of the deficit has people wetting their pants.

Thrugelmir

ruperts wrote: »

Pathetic from the unelected chancellor. Even higher taxes for those of working age being put straight back into even better standards of care for the older generation who are already the most privileged in the history of the world.

Stamping down on the entrepreneurial, forcing everyone to get in line for low paid employee jobs in pure servitude to the lucky generation like the slaves we are.

Not even a single bone or a scrap thrown to those working in this country despite the tax take reaching levels not seen for decades.

Barely a penny invested in our already crippled transport network and no doubt Hammond and co will still be scratching their heads as to why productivity is so low. Maybe because we all spend four hours a day commuting to our low paid jobs where we get taxed to high heaven to pay for pensioners to live in the lap of luxury, Phil? You know? Maybe the fact we have no job security whatsoever while your corporate buddies pay as little tax as they like lends a certain lack of motivation to the workforce?

Predictably, nothing in it the help those forced to rent and the great British service charges scam doesn't event get a mention.

It's a shambles from a government who have achieved none of their aims and from a chancellor who would never in a million years been elected if only the people were given their democratic right to vote for him.

Get these incompetent fools out.

Anything constructive to say? Easy to moan and groan. But there's a real challenge ahead to bridge the deficit gap. Sometimes people have to do something for themselves, i.e. work harder.

Looking at the opposition front bench I shudder to think of the consequences of a Labour Government currently. Incompetent is a totally inadequate word. McDonnell would have the £ sinking below parity with the $.