BUDGET - WHAT A BUDGET? DON'T BE SILLY!
ZDENKO KOS MSc MEc BScEcon (Hons) MBA • 7 March 2024

HAS CHANCELLOR of EXCHEQUER POOL A RABBIT FROM A HAT?

Everyone apart of me and few others not to mention all conservatives party MP’s and PM was expecting our Chancellor of Exchequer to pool a rabbit from a hat. However, this just hasn’t happened. The “magician” Jeremy Hunt had not only did he not have a rabbit, he didn’t have a hat, but only a very flat cap.


It was really appalling how he tried to play us with National Insurance and Income Tax. Listening to him and few other Tories about scraping the National Insurance all together just showed how government fielding with the numbers again and again just to make every possible for conservative party to stay in the government and to control our lives as long as possible.


If they would be honest with us (honest is a big word which conservative party don’t understand) they should tell us that this is a big project for years to come for what they don’t have money to cover on the first place. This was yet just another bone for us to nibble. Yes, we can argue about “double tax payment” however if they are actually moving to scrap it, that is an enormous policy which opened utter confusion even between conservative MP’s. They cannot figure it out, who is drinking and who will be paying the bill!


We have one line from the Prime Minister and then going further and further we can see straight that there are 4-5 further different lines, everyone have their line, probably also there is the Jeremy Hunt line. The problem they have is they can't agree between themselves therefore how can something that actually the public believe what they are saying that will be done. Of course, they do not forget to mention that for something like that minimum 5-10 years in power needed. This was yet another desperate trick of magician and his party. However, if they would be honest and told us that simple, they clearly don't have align to go on and something that cuts through all the percentages that percentage down everything else then perhaps public would listening.


The honest would be also explaining different things right and in the end there's two options either they mean it, and they want to scrap it in which case there's £168 billion of lost revenue. Then they've got to explain and set everything from A-Z.

However if they didn't mean it in which case it was a screw up and in either of those scenarios what the public are hearing right now is a vast unfunded tax cut which for the public reminds them of that Liz Truss budget and the thing that really strikes me is why on earth are they doing this? Why are they getting themselves into this mess? The only reason that I can think of is the conservative backbenchers, what they're doing is throwing red meat to the backbenchers because Rishi Sunak is in office but not in power and that's bad for the country!


Let's remind ourselves this is a party that has been in power for 14 years. If they've been motivated why they leaving it until the 11th hour to actually talk about it? Why they did put one cut in at the last autumn statement if they talk about merging National Insurance and Income Tax.


There is an argument that would be good simplification of tax system right if you're going to even talk in public about something like that and if you are the government you've got to explain how you're going to pay for it, the timescale over which you're going to do it, why you want to do it and how you want to do it and they've done none of those things and I think without any of those things it either ends up looking like a **** up mind pledge that they've not really thought about and set out at the end of the budget.


Again in either of those scenarios people who are really feeling the pinch, whose household incomes have been going down over the course of this parliament who can't afford to do their annual family holiday they're going to be listening to this and thinking do these people really have a plan for my economy to put money in my pockets?

I don't think so and they have been covering the Budget over the last few days. The Budged and its presentation was flat, it was not what you'd expect from a party that's trailing 20 plus points behind Labour party.


Having said that I don't think Rishi Sunak or magician Jeremy Hunt can add much to play with. We must not forget that it was Jeremy Hunt who was Secretary for Health for 8 years and a half and brought the NHS down. How unorganized they are was seen also with Jeremy Hunt U-turn on non-dome tax. In the morning on the interview there was not even mention at all non-dome tax scraped, and was not even originally written in the Budget, however when Budget presented in the parliament suddenly magic U-turn appears out. Don’t forget this was original idea of Labour party which conservative party refused till this last moment to accept and that they overtook the idea just showed how desperate they are. 

If I have to rate the Budget from 1-10 would not pass even 5. However, how was presented and what was in the Budget I am 100% sure that the general election will not come in May but in November if not even January 2025.

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