Next year, shortly after the notional BREXIT date, there will be a budget that needs to collect some money. Obviously our current government will continue to treat multinationals and billionaire tax-dodgers with kid gloves.
As the FT says,
"It became clear last week that the autumn Budget will be a holding statement and the big decisions on austerity, tax and borrowing will come in 2019, after the scheduled Brexit date on March 29. The details and the presentation of this defining moment will have to wait, but the essential element is already clear: Britons will have to pay more tax."
https://www.ft.com/content/d9b28d32-ce05-11e8-b276-b9069bde0956
Austerity is supposed to be over. Older citizens need more expensive medical and social care. The NHS is crumbling (possibly as a result of deliberate Government policy). Nursing and Midwifery training places have been cut. Bursaries have gone. The railways are a disgrace. Universal Credit has taken as much as possible from the poor. Disabled and chronically sick are thrown onto food banks and suicide. Earnings from people on Zero Hours or Minimum Pay is too small to squeeze much out of them.
Where is the money?
In the Pension Schemes and ISAs of older people.
In the homes of prosperous older people.
In the BTL houses of prosperous older people.
Who can guess where the axe will fall?
As the FT says,
"It became clear last week that the autumn Budget will be a holding statement and the big decisions on austerity, tax and borrowing will come in 2019, after the scheduled Brexit date on March 29. The details and the presentation of this defining moment will have to wait, but the essential element is already clear: Britons will have to pay more tax."
https://www.ft.com/content/d9b28d32-ce05-11e8-b276-b9069bde0956
Austerity is supposed to be over. Older citizens need more expensive medical and social care. The NHS is crumbling (possibly as a result of deliberate Government policy). Nursing and Midwifery training places have been cut. Bursaries have gone. The railways are a disgrace. Universal Credit has taken as much as possible from the poor. Disabled and chronically sick are thrown onto food banks and suicide. Earnings from people on Zero Hours or Minimum Pay is too small to squeeze much out of them.
Where is the money?
In the Pension Schemes and ISAs of older people.
In the homes of prosperous older people.
In the BTL houses of prosperous older people.
Who can guess where the axe will fall?
