budget and the future of uk

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   I have been contemplating how many on the forum have calculated yet how much better off they will be after Mr Hunt's latest performance ?The last budget(potentially) before an election, is a make or break one for governments, and its clear that some will gain from child benefit increases and the reduction of National Insurance.
Its also clear that those on lower incomes , are not going to gain ,but potentially lose out.
Jeremy Hunt's budget highlights the crucial issue facing our economy, the cost of everyday living, but does little to address it. Since 2008 wages and economic growth in the UK have stagnated, while the prices for what we pay, public utilities(gas/electric), food . Add in the 40% rise in mortgages and rents since Truss brief period as PM( elected by Tory party), its clear smaller Nat Insurance bills (although welcome), won't change the greater scheme of things.
These higher costs, are driven, partly by an economic model that redistributes cash from households and small business, upwards to the private giants that control the provision of many of these assets.

Its clear when you listen to members of of the public interviewed regarding financial trajectory this country is taking, the grave concerns there are , not just for everyday economics , but for the delivery of public services. This budget will benefit those who are better off and consequently we can expect longer term austerity, particularly in the context of savage cuts already biting into the economic plans of local authorities who have to deliver services , leave alone NHS provision!
In my case, I support my wife who suffers with a form of early onset dementia.
At the moment, we are managing fine , and independently, but what happens if she deteriorates?
What happens if I fall ill and cannot care  for her, what happens then ?
We have already experienced poor care through social services mismanagement.
It is of huge concern !

The Conservative part have been in power for 14 /pssibly15  years, by the time of the election
Last minute giveaways, are frankly insulting, when fundamental issues such as investment and growth management have been ignored for years. A stagnating economy cannot provide the security of jobs, living standards and the decency in public service provision we would like to see.
George Osborne famously used the political jibe " You fix the roof, while the suns shining", but the Tories seem to have smashed the windows and kicked the door in .

To add to the above , I would like to add that, the Tories have not only clearly lost their contention for economic competence, but also completely lost the moral right to govern, through decency !!
Anyone viewing the recent antics of Suella Braverman, the former home secretary, with naked ambitions to become next Tory leader. She plumbed despicable depths when she wrote in the Daily Telegraph "Truth is that the Islamists, extremists, and antisemites are in charge now. They have bullied the Labour party, bullied our institutions, and now they have bullied our country into submission"
This is the woman, that Sunak himself appointed as Home secretary, almost like putting a fox in charge of the hen house!
Then we have the maniac and former PM Truss, who not content with destroying the British economy,
travels to the United States, peddles conspiracy theories about her downfall, blaming "the deep state". Less hilariously, she sat silently beside Steve Bannon, as Trump's former henchman lavished the label "hero", on Tommy Robinson, the founder of the far right English defence league.
You may say that no one should pay heed to the antics of the ridiculous Ms Truss, a harlot who's shelf life at Downing st, was beaten by a supermarket lettuce. Yet, she was elected leader of the Conservative party and she was prime minister of this country not long ago.
We can also add the reliably repugnant Lee Anderson, Tory dep party Chairman appointed by Sunak
Anderson's latest outrage when he made the grotesque claims that "Islamists" have "got control of  London" and its mayor. "He's given the capital away to his mates" Sadiq Kahn rightly responded by saying that this was "pouring on the fire of anti Muslim hatred"
Only after decent and fair minded Tories like baroness Warsi and former senior tory minister Sajid  Javid spoke up in horror , did Downing st respond, eventually suspending Anderson, who still receives the backing of many tory MP's and activists.
Finally, we another specimen in Paul Scully, a former minister for London, who asserted that parts of the capitol and Birmingham , with large Muslim populations, are "no go areas" !
Keeping the flag flying for civilised Conservatism, Andy Street, the Tory mayor of West Midlands,, slapped down this "nonsense", and Scully tried to take back what he had said !

At the end of the day ,the person at the centre of all this is the prime minister himself.
The Tory party hard "tax cutting" hard right is the mob he feels most menaced by and that he has been flabby, about policing extremism within his own ranks.
He has not repudiated Truss for her "love ins" with repugnant Trumpites.
He sacked Braverman,as home secretary, for and incendiary provocation about "hate marches, "last Nov, but she was only in that profile-enhancing post, because he had struck a Faustian bargain with her, when he thought he needed Hard Right support to secure the premiership !
He handed a louder mic to Lee Anderson, by promoting him to Tory dep Chair, a role he exploited to platform his noxious prejudices, until he quit over Rwanda.
Only the extremists will disagree with the prime minister when he says we should not allow them to hijack our politics. More's the pity that he has too often behaved like a hostage of the hate mongers within his own party.

At the end of the day no last minute tax cuts and token gestures like the abolishing 'non dom' status(why wasn't it done years ago) can paper over the gaping cracks of a festering clapped out Government, with little idea on forward thinking, morally bankrupt , led by man so weak that the plight of the country perpetually looks like one step forward, two steps back  !