Absolutely rinsed in this budget - almost £1k a year worse off.

OBR told her she had a £4b surplus, not a black any hole. That’s on the record.

She lied and defrauded the public for political gain. There is no other way to cut this.

Car mileage is recorded every time your car goes in for an MOT so I suspect, though don't know, that the pay per mile will be linked to that.

His parents were millionaires before he was born. Both came from wealthy colonial families in east Africa. When they moved to the UK they immediately bought a six bedroom house in an expensive area, and sent all three of their kids to the most elite private schools from primary age through to Winchester (£50k per year per child). They did not do that on a humble GP and pharmacist salary. They had family money.

Well that was your CHOICE. That doesn’t mean others have to follow suit.

Here’s my suggestions, How about having some balls, rejoining at least the EEA , that should help by around 4% a year -start taxing every online company that does business here but doesn’t base here for tax purposes a 3% transaction tax , that would be your Amazons, eBay, Facebook, Google etc and many others - they won’t all stop doing business here- uk is one of the most lucrative online markets- in many other country’s you cannot getaway with trading , but not paying corporation tax equivalent-

I personally think the middle band for tax needs upping a fair bit £50k these days is not that high a salary

allow tax funded hours regardless of salary , when we lived in Denmark what you earned was irrelevant and the care was around £330 a month ( and that’s full time) I can easily see why people end up doing stuff like salary sacrifice etc and yep if in that position and paying a lot of tax I would feel resentful -

give insurance and pension companies huge tax breaks to build social housing for rent at social housing levels and also more shared ownership housing and not just flats - family sized houses too . Put in conditions for facilities as part of the contracts -

I would personally get rid of stamp duty and charge a low rate capital gain ( maybe 5%) on sale on the difference between purchase and sale, anyone who has already paid stamp duty can offset that against cost .

Given the OBR has got 15 years of forecasting data completely wrong, i wouldn't be so quick to jump the gun.
They even got this years growth wrong by 50%.

& it was the OBR who said she had a 29bn black hole in the first place......

Fortunately, for her, the bond markets seem to like her tax raising policies, the doubling of fiscal head room had to happen, which appears to be her defence, the £4.2billlion "surplus" just isn't enough.

That alone, will save us billions in interest.

She lied through her teeth to the country, to the markets and to parliament and she’s still in a job. Kemi and the Tories are rarely right about anything given that they set their own records for incompetence over 14 years.

Buy Rachel Reeves has just blown it all out of the water.

Lying about public finances to raise taxes is basically fraud. The chancellor is a fraud. She should be prosecuted.

If she has lied, then not only is she a liar, she is stupid, could have said "Look, we fixed the blackhole etc etc"

Now need tax rises to fix x y and z, starting with Dentistry, a vote winner.

Lifting of the cap was wrong, money should be targeted or at least just raised it to 3 children.

I was a high rate tax payer myself for years until I retired early through ill health. But as a director I never took a penny of my salary in dividends, I took it all through PAYE. My co-directors thought I was insane (or just plain stupid) but I believe that it’s our duty. I was still left with far more than I’d earned previously, and I was happy to recognise my privilege and contribute towards education, or a sick child’s cancer treatment or a disabled person’s benefits because those things don’t pay for themselves.

So in short, I have no issue with rich people. I have an issue with rich people crying about paying tax.

Seems to have awfully quiet in the Labour fanclub now that the self publicized first female chancellor has been caught lying. Again.

A liar and incompetent. What a lethal combo.

Using your analogy then can I assume you have respect for the higher taxpayer for doing something similar?

We were told that Sunak should be admired for his wealth. I was just pointing out that a person shouldn’t be worthy of admiration just by virtue of being rich. They could be a psychopath who has been gifted a fortune. Why is that to be admired?

There are much more admirable qualities a person can have - compassion, selflessness, humility, curiousness, generosity, kindness, warmth… I’m very comfortable myself but when they’re putting me in the ground it isn’t my bank balance that I hope I’ll be remembered fondly for.

I’d have more admiration for someone from a humble background who built a fortune. In fact I’d have as much admiration for a struggling nurse/teacher/etc who was penniless. It is very easy to make money when you’re already rich.

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I assume also there are many cases where people pull through and beat the cancer?

Thank you - it can be, but he mostly loves it. (Massive physics/chemistry nerd, and he gets to do it on real people!) 😊

it was like financing our public services with a Wonga loan

No it was like financing capital spend with a mortgage. The principle of PFI was sound, the execution was atrocious. Instead of employing skilled professional contract negotiators to ensure value for money each organisation was allowed to do its own negotiation and they were outwitted every which way by the provider organisations. There was no regulation in the process.

Bless him. Being a cancer doctor must be difficult.

Oncology - works in a specialist hospital.

Out of pure curiosity, what field of medicine does he specialise in?

100%. DH is a consultant doing NHS and private work. About 7 years ago, every consultant got two brand new ipads in the course of a year because the NHS hospital was in surplus and didn’t want to lose the budget. Meanwhile, the “main” hospital up the road is permanently in special measures with grannies on trollers 24/7. 🤷‍♀️ Piss-ups and breweries spring to mind!

We also worked out that DH would need a pension pot of >£2.5 million to obtain the same annuity as he will receive from the NHS pension scheme. Very nice for us, you may think, but if we multiply that by every senior medic in the land (not to mention NHS management and GP’s - who aren’t exactly winning patient satisfaction awards rn) and you get a flavour of why the UK is so very turbofucked, and why Reeves is taxing the bejesus out of anyone who bothers to drag themselves out of bed in the morning.

What did they pay for the doors? Doors are a bloody nightmare on healthcare projects, they are expensive, often have automotive aspects that need to be built in, fire rated and properly certified which often means all ironmongery needs to be fitted by the manufacture and the ironmongery used has to have been tested with the door to confirm compliance. I can't think of a single health care project I've worked on where the doors haven't been on the critical path because of the long lead times.