Nervous/anxious/scared about the Autumn budget 2024

I don't really mind. There is this black hole. And to be fair, I agree that passive income isn't working.

It’s because the company already pay corporation tax so the basic rate of tax on the dividend of once was considered already paid. That was abolished and there is now a 8% and 32% rate plus corporation tax on top.

It's 'just' a budget. My hope is that it'll prove to be comprehensive, and the OBR review released on Wednesday will also steady confidence jitters.
The Truss debacle has made people more apprehensive about budgets. Reeves isn't foolhardy, she's not a Truss esque maverick out to rip up the rule book, so this budget could (should) improve overall confidence.
Theres not going to be anything earth shattering - she's not raising income tax and she's not reversing the cut in employee NI. My hope is that this budget will be the start of an enduring confidence from the markets, and interest rates edge steadily downwards.

What a load of bull.

25 percent of pensioners have a million pound asset. They are the richest generation. It was always going to go.

I think the cut off should be higher absolutely but Mafia tactics.

Sort out the NHS in it's entirity ? Totally unrealistic. Make it function a bit better for most people most of the time ? Might be possible.

The ‘smash the gangs’ policy is causing more deaths - look up Amnesty International response on it and numbers per boat plus how much flimsier they are. This makes them unsafer. Demand is also up and profits.

It’s all talked about if not ignored. ‘Weather dependent’ is ignoring the above.

Overall for a few months? Like I said. Weather dependent. There’s no policy change to explain it (Rwanda wasn’t deterring anyone).
How do you feel about the backlog which is costing a fortune?

It is up overall, as are deaths. It’s policy. Oddly the latter barely gets coverage

Amazing the normalisation that some seem ok with

Way worse than it needed to be.

By slowing down / defunding the processing of asylum seekers.

Leading to the many more overcrowded hotels etc full of them, and subsequently leading to more unrest.

Numbers are up and down month by month. It’s large.y weather dependent, as I’m sure you know.
The bigger issue is the backlog of assessment processing the Tories left.

The pp used the term however it’s easy to understand what their post meant. you have already corrected in your post so you do know

The cost from channel crossings is high and increasing, and deaths are going up. Have you noticed?

Just because someone on the other thread reckons that to be true doesn't actually mean that it is!

Not illegal immigrants, no. By definition we don’t know the numbers and they don’t cost anything.

cardibach
the Tories were set to remove [the bus cap] completely

Not according to this;

June 2024

A plan to extend the £2 cap on bus fares in England have been announced in the Conservative manifesto.

The document commits to maintaining the scheme for the entirety of the next Parliament.

It stated this would benefit “young people and low-income households”, and would be funded by “reform of the railway which will save up to £1.5 billion annually”.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/london-tories-conservative-party-parliament-england-b1163628.html

Someone else on another thread reckons they went to for pensioners to show how tough they are to people abroad? It beggars belief, it's what the mafia and ocg do!!

New polling today shows you are not alone @Christmaschristingle, these threads don't really show it

Are you aware people are crossing the channel in boats?

The humility and kindness of the "we will tread lightly on your lives" speech.

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@Garlicnaan way worse compared to what?.. Blair famously didn't do any counting in when we were hit by the working restrictions dropped period.

Yes. They’re the Tories’ figures. Processing was virtually non existent in the first half of the year.

The media missives are ramping up and up and up! The doom!!..

I think they are disgusting.
I've lived through 2006 crash, covid, Ukraine crisis and in dreading thid budget more than anything at any other time

We will tread lightly on your lives...

Tories actively made immigration / asylum situation WAY worse too, by slowing down processing. So that's going to take a lot of cash to sort out.

Have you seen the figures lately?

It's odd how people are unaware and 'ROTFL' etc

This. Better off doesn't just mean what's in our pocket. It means the state of the country too.

I'm shocked at the ignorance of posters thinking previous Govts have been throwing money at schools... Where does this absolute hogwash come from?! Schools are massively underfunded per capita in real terms compared to how they were in the last Labour govt.

Ditto the NHS.

Tories actively made immigration / asylum situation WAY worse too, by slowing down processing. So that's going to take a lot of cash to sort out.

So rainbow zebra crossings are a good use of tax payers money in a struggling NHS?

Because 'inclusion' we need to let the males know they are welcome to trample over women's rights in an NHS setting.

Mind blowing.