Nervous/anxious/scared about the Autumn budget 2024

I thought this too!

To the two cheeks of the same arse comment, I saw something earlier that said it will be the top 10% of earners who will be pay the most as a result of this budget. That's good and should go some way to ending the constant 'red tory' comments. I agree with @BIossomtoes that it also explains Sunak's weirdly ragey performance in the house.

In what way, no extra taxes for you?

I guess it depends what jobs pp do. Or if it's a small business

If they're relying on growth taxing that sector doesn't help bring it about

What did you expect them to do or want them to do? They haven't increased anyone's income tax.

For a left wing party I think this budget has actually been pretty measured, it could have gone a lot further.

It's nowhere near what the right wing press, especially the Daily Mail, has been fretting about for weeks; particularly the changes around Inheritance Tax.

People are saying that businesses will be hit but a lot of businesses have been able to pay people low wages because the Government prop people up with in-work benefits. Is that right?

The reality is this budget is actually better than the majority of people were expecting - hence the lack of hysterical threads on here...

Budget looks good to me.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/672232d010b0d582ee8c4905/Autumn_Budget_2024__web_accessible_.pdf

Same here i was expecting so much worse.

@LadyGrinningSoul8517

I can't wait to here your explanation of my "trans comment".

In the light of constant fumbling before the election on what constitutes a woman every one male and female should be highly concerned about the erosion of rights and where that leaves young girls especially.

I read one of the most disturbing personal accounts I've ever read in recent times of a girl whose dad "transformed" fetisished it and traumatised his dd.
That dd has gone into expose how far reaching the tentacles are of people like her dad.

I can't believe you've taken that user name as well 😢

I thought it wss ok? Not sure about small businesses? I think she said they’d be protected?

Good budget, Sunak’s rage was a fair indication of just how good.

@pinotnow agreed, I think it was actually fine.

So what did everyone think? So much of the scaremongering turned out to be unfounded from what I can see.

They aren’t giving money to “the unions”. They’ve given money to health care professionals whose wages have been suppressed for years.

“The unions” are groups of ordinary workers who have been shat on for years quietly and who finally reached tipping point.

I don't expect them to create power stations overnight but they are absolutely capable of communicating what they will do for the country!

Me too. What is also massively ignored is the 'cost' of earning more. The cost of commuting every month for many of friends is over £400. You need to have about £700 of pre-tax salary available for this.

But how are they repairing the damage?

Maybe give them more than three months?

But how are they repairing the damage? So far it appears to me that they are giving a load of money to the unions and scattering money elsewhere - nothing that is going to have a decent impact on society or most people's lives.

It feels like they are scattering money around with policies that sound nice rather than have a significant impact. If we had a more diverse energy policy that focused on bills coming down that would massively help families every month. Or if we had a decent state school or if they focused on having more affordable transport. Instead money is scattered across on things like breakfast clubs.

That's your opinion. Good luck with that. You're gonna need it.

Cartwrightandson · 26/10/2024 19:45
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From what I've heard, social housing rents might be means tested and households with higher income might pay more. I could be wrong, 🤔

Don’t see the problem with that. Personally, once people reach a certain income, where they could comfortably privately rent or buy, I think they should be given notice to move on and free up very limited public housing for people who really need it.

Don’t one or two MPs and a union leader or two live in social housing? Just wrong on their salaries.

I’ve just explained why it’s nonsense. 🤷‍♀️

Not at all. It's more accurate now than it ever has been.

They are doing something different. They’re making a start on repairing the damage that has been done over the last decade and a half. The Tories promised tax cuts, if they’d won the election Hunt would now be trying to explain why he promised something that’s undeliverable. They’re not on the same body, let alone the same arse - and it’s time that tired old cliche was put to bed once and for all.

Except it didn’t. Look at the link Clavinova posted which outlines the taxes they said they would raise.

That’s not what I wrote. I said I didn’t know what she was banging on about because she posted a list of ways Labour intended to change tax as laid out in their manifesto as evidence that nobody knew they would raise tax to fund the manifesto because they didn’t put it in the manifesto.
Manifest nonsense.

Hallelujah! It's ridiculous that you can pay reduced rent forever, despite income increasing beyond those in the private sector. Means testing is essential.