Budget 2024

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East Level 2 said:
Hunt said inflation was 11% when he and Sunak came to power and it's now down to 4%. - Is the stupid bastard unaware he and Sunak represent the party that took inflation to 11% in the first place?
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They literally don't care anymore. They know unless something drastic happens they are toast so they're just filling their own pockets even more before it comes to an end.
 
kaz7 said:
What has he said about benefits ?
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Blue Maverick said:
I’m not picking on them, there’s far less benefit cheats than tax avoiders money wise, what I do believe is that the rest of the country should be helping the poorer areas cope with those on benefits which tend to be more in the north I would think than the south. Someone in Kensington pays £250 less than I do! If there are more in your area on benefits they tend not to pay council tax, therefore poorer areas collect less, we should be getting more help so we can have a reduction in council tax, in some areas it’s getting up to mortgage type levels.
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I'm just pissed off mate, ignore me.
 
kaz7 said:
Thought starmer spoke very well , the tories can try and say nothing was their fault but they cant fool most people , hopefully
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With our outdated electoral method, it doesn't need most people, that would be for a 2-horse race with everybody voting. They just plan on fooling enough of the people for enough of the time.

'Enough of the people' is only around 30-35% of the people who actually vote - normally around 70% in a GE.
And take out Scotland and NI to reduce it further.

Feb 24 polls has Labour 46% and Tory 21%, the turnout in 2019 was less than 70% - hopefully not enough voting Tory to stop them being virtually wiped out.
 
More bluster, more spin.

If they had any confidence in their abilities and faith in the public's trust, they'd have called a GE months ago.
 
Just used the calculator on Sky, seems you need to be on £30 k to be better off, taking frozen thresholds into account. Anyone on 27k is £8/ momth worse off, the less you earn the worse off.
 
So if you look at opinion polls the only sector where they continue to enjoy strong support is the over 60's. They just shat on them effectively. I am over 60 - I am retired - I have two small pensions which just take me above the threshold. My food costs are still ridiculously high as are energy costs. I don't get and NI cuts my kids are grown up so no child care benefits for me either. Then again as they destroy the NHS but give someone on £30k pa what? £40 a month by cutting NI. How much private healthcare do they think they can buy with that?

The only thing that came out of that budget is the thought they are hanging on until September for a GE. The strangest commitment I have heard in years is a 6 month commitment to extending the Household Support Fund. Budgets set your annual commitments not 6 monthly ones. just over 62% of emergency support from Local Authorities comes through the HSF for families with no money and in dire need and with the likelihood of Councils going bankrupt in the summer they are just hoping the headlines are not too bad and the weather stays good
 
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