The Greatest Bugdet Ever.

[nicebloke1]

Absolutly bang on budget getting every aspect of it right in every possible way and very well thought out.

Hospitals, schools and carers, have been crying out for some proper action for 14 years. Well done labour, the only way is up now for this country with a solid foundation set in place. The cons have been shown how it should be done. Again well done SK.

[fiveleaves]

Rachel did well. Extremely competent. £22B black hole in the economy. The Tories should never be allowed to run the economy ever again.

[curlyfries81]

There are some very deluded individuals around here.

[nicebloke1]

Very clever woman indeed 19.14.

[gramps85]

nicebloke. Join the real world and read comments on previous posting, and you will see what the majority of contributors thought of the budget and Reeves.

[Atheist]

What the majority of contributors thought of the budget and Reeves is not proof of your world-view.

[nicebloke1]

Gramps85. Yes we are back in the real world with this budget.

Why would care to read even more sour grapes?

If you can't accept losing, you WILL always be a loser.

[naomi24]

Apart from two contributors, the naivety here is breathtaking.  

[nicebloke1]

^^ would I ^^

[nicebloke1]

A clever woman with a REAL important job that takes brains.

[gramps85]

nicebloke.  I am not a loser, but a realist who has listened to what the experts have said, and nearly all have said that this is the highest tax burden imposed on the British people in history.

[New Judge]

"Hospitals....have been crying out for some proper action for 14 years."

The action that hospitals need does not require more money. In fact if they take the action they need to (to rationalise their procedures and make the best use of the resources they have) they would actually need less money. Just take a look round any hospital and you will quickly realise that.

The government does not run the health service and the action it needs does not need government intervention. It should be taken by the NHS directors and managers (of which there are plenty) and it should have been taken lomg before now. The £22bn it has been granted will simply enable the service to employ more non-medical staff. 

"...the only way is up now for this country with a solid foundation set in place."

Wait until after next April when the effects of the enormous extra burden placed on businesses feeds through before you decide on your verdict. You might also keep an eye on the rate of inflation and the cost of borrowing now that the government has decided to borrow an extra £50bn, much of which will be pee'd up the wall.  

There is nothing "well thought out" about the budget. It is simply an expression of Labour's ideology which pays no regard to economic reality.

"£22B black hole in the economy. "

Have you read the OBR report on that claim, published today?

[nicebloke1]

I was that excited to give this good news an airing i got me gd in the wrong place. :0)))) so happy with this outcome.

[New Judge]

"...so happy with this outcome."

I take it you don't run a business, then?

[mushroom25]

see my comment on here - 

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1881368-2.html#answer-13944446

how much more sleight of hand was involved today?

[nicebloke1]

Yes i did NJ for 19 years. Sorry you cant be correct all of the time.

[naomi24]

Nicebloke, it must have been a one man band.  You have no conception of business.

[Deskdiary]

NJ has already brought it up, but the OBR are not quite as enamoured as you are; their view is it's not a budget for growth.

[Deskdiary]

Why is it the left always think the way to sort out the NHS is to simply throw more money at it? It's non-thinking to the nth level.

[New Judge]

"Yes i did NJ for 19 years."

But you don't now, though?

Or if you do, you've already determined how you are going to fund the additional employer NI contributions you will have to make? And the increased paybill you will have to find?  And grow your business whilst doing this?

[Togo]

"Yes i did NJ for 19 years."

Bankruptcy?