[mattomac]

Better than giving a tax freebie to people who can shove 20k in an ISA every year.

[soulboy]

Red Tory bastards.

Be interesting to see the budgeting for this. Do they see the new structure saving money? Probably a bit early for that, though it would be nice if they could show some improvement like this. Or is it paid for by less investment? Which would be less positive.

I look forward to the utter meltdown if the rail fare freeze is funded by at least a partial restoration of fuel duty to pre-2022 levels.

WAR ON TEH MOTORIST!!!1!one!

[Tubby Isaacs]

Better than giving a tax freebie to people who can shove 20k in an ISA every year.

Reeves made a suggestion of changing it so that the full amount applied to stocks only, and Martin Money opposed it. So all hell will break loose if this in the budget. Apparently people want pro-growth reforms, which this probably would be, but not like that.

I may have said this before, about a hundred times, but very small village primary schools mostly for the kids of very well off people seem to escape the annual round of efficiency savings. (In fairness to Reeves, that's councils, not her)

[Tubby Isaacs]

Warren is keeping it positive. I keep hearing that the Government came in without any plans, having "had 14 years" to have all sorts of stuff ready to go. But you can't really have something like this sorted from opposition, and I think that's true of lots of stuff.

It's not really feasible for the Opposition to have the equivalent of the Civil Service on hand, and even if you did, how would you get the experts you need to contribute? There's lots of stuff happening on reducing infrastructure costs, which every says they want, but all they get in return is "war on nature", "corporate lobbying".