Budget Spring 2017

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Our thoughts on the budget would be.

Economically “Spreadsheet Phill” has done a pretty good job. The underlying theme being counter inflationary, holding down wages and hence helping exports, which are improving nicely. This is to reduce the National debt which is still frankly out of control and increasing alarmingly.

However politically he has completely misjudged the mood of the Nation. We should most certainly be encouraging entrepreneurship, not sending out a signal that we are going to tax it. OK the numbers are pretty small (So why do it?), but the premise of bringing equality with the great employed people of our land, demonstrates why it is a terrible mistake to put a remainer in charge of the economy. Why? because it demonstrates clearly that he does not understand the dynamics that drive the economy. These would include:-

1. Having the balls to leave a safe job and set up on your own
2. Having to put your house on the line to borrow money to raise working capital
3. Not getting paid when you are sick
4. Working 60 hours a week and not getting paid any overtime let alone time and a half
5. So you can create jobs so the employees have some where to work
6. Undertaking all the admin for the public sector re taxation and VAT, another job creation scheme
7. Becoming personally liable, when the employees in the banks and government get is wrong. Which they do to the tune of billions of pounds of our money, and then they expect Job creators pick up the bill.

In which sense is this equality?

So yes we would love to have a level playing field where people are rewarded based upon the risk and effort they put in.

To Quote George Orwell

“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”

Libertarians are people who believe in their ability and know that success is dependent upon empowering and inspiring their fellow men. Authoritarians, have no such confidence in their ability, and so they look to tax, restrain and undermine the very people who pay their salary.

This is what Brexit was about. This is why we need a Chancellor who understands this.