What do you expect?

You didn't like the unfunded tax cuts and now you're complaining about possible spending cuts and tax rises.

One more point

We faced these problems who-ever was in No 10 and 11! Would you rather have someone who treated you like an adult, told you the truth and asked you to come along, or treat you like a child and tell you what you want to hear, with a few sweeties as bribes?

I am quite sure Hunt understands the issues surrounding the NHS better than most, but he is a realist. It's probably going to get worse, possibly much worse, before it gets better. There is no way anyone can avoid being impacted in some way. So trying to protect the most vulnerable makes sense. Some will fall down the cracks and there will doubtless be some horror stories ahead of us.

There's more to life than just worrying about financial issues, at least for most of us. So enjoy the game, enjoy the Autumn, your family and friends, and buckle up. It will be a rough ride but we will survive.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Well quite. If people cannot see they are being played then they deserve everything they have got coming.

A Tory Prime Minister, on the back of 70+seat majority, probably losing her job because of wanting to bring in tax-cuts. We truly live in Clown World.

And now a w***er like Hunt in a top position. A man who wanted to bring in Covid concentration camps. f*** him.

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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

It's a shame that the same doesn't happen for HOL posters who churn out the same drivel time after time

But you and dear Badger must realise that for the vast majority of people they are being plunged into debt to pay for very small beer tax cuts.

Let's face it, they are actually when you look closely, mutton dressed up as lamb.

In fact by pausing tax thresholds you will end up paying £2 for every 13 over the next 4 years due to inflation.

If I remember correctly Gordon Browne first indexed them to inflation.

As I recall, Hunt was the one that ended bursaries for trainee nurses, putting many off from training and was generally reviled within NH professions.

On the subject of 'difficult decisions', caporate tax should be increased to 30%.

Do we really think that if Starbuck's, for instance, were taxed at this rate, they'd stop selling coffee to 50 million people, or whatever, in this country? And, if they did, that there'd be no one who want to step into the market to make profits from it?

Germany, held up by many to be a more successful economy, charge 30% corporate tax.

Why can't multi nationals take some of the brunt of these 'hard decisions'?

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