What do you hope for in the budget?

Allsorts

Keir and Angela giving up politics, otherwise as Smileless has said. Before that I would like a detailed account of how a person on state pension can eat, keep warm and pay bills including clothes and spectacles because we have to buy ours.

And who would you want to replace them?

Babs03

Would prefer not to see a hike in stamp duty seeing as we are moving house. Is a total rip off, imho a house price should have stamp duty added on so you know exactly what the house will cost.

Agreed. We have no intention of moving house but agree that there is no obvious reason to have to pay tax in order to do so.

Smileless2012

I'm surprised at you Doodledog. People are entitled to respond without being accused of nastiness and ignorance and perhaps you should take into account the sheer frustration and disappointment that many are feeling right now.

Well, one HUGE problem that needs to be sorted in the Budget is Social Care. I'm sad to hear so often of people having to watch their savings and any assets being drained away by obscenely greedy private 'lack of care' providers in return for slop and stodge laughably described as "food", being hastily dumped on a commode because there's not enough trained staff and not enough time and then parked in front of a telly all day, which seems to be someone's idea of stimulating activity.

Would prefer not to see a hike in stamp duty seeing as we are moving house. Is a total rip off, imho a house price should have stamp duty added on so you know exactly what the house will cost.

Of course all of us is entitled to express ourselves but that includes me.

I am asking what people want to see, not denying them the right to express their feelings.

I'm surprised at you Doodledog. People are entitled to respond without being accused of nastiness and ignorance and perhaps you should take into account the sheer frustration and disappointment that many are feeling right now.

Since when did a budget suggest that a PM gave up politics🙄

There is so much nastiness and ignorance on here lately that I was hoping to have a thread where politically aware posters could discuss hopes for the future budget, but maybe that was a vain expectation.

Yes I'd like a detailed account of how anyone on state pension can do all of things too Allsorts.

Keir and Angela giving up politics, otherwise as Smileless has said. Before that I would like a detailed account of how a person on state pension can eat, keep warm and pay bills including clothes and spectacles because we have to buy ours.

Agreed on a lot of that Smileless. So much speculation and so few facts. We need to know what’s what sooner rather than later to stop the doom mongers from reducing us all to quivering wrecks.

I'd like to know if the one in five not working is due to sickness and what the Government proposes to do about those who can work but don't.

I'd like the withdrawal of the WFA delayed for one year to give those who will be just above the threshold time to prepare for its loss, and the threshold for those who will be eligible raised.

I want to know if it's intended to stop people from taking a one off 25% of their private pension tax free and if so, when this is going to be implemented.

I want to know if there are any plans to withdraw free bus passes and the 25% reduction in council tax for single occupancy.

Most of all, I would like to see a detailed breakdown of the 22 billion black hole the LP claim to have inherited.