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Re: The budget
I don't think this budget deserved to change the polling.
People aren't daft. Those of us who have benefitted from the 4% NI cuts this year know that, however welcome it is to household finances, it's an election bribe. In 2015 or 2017 it could have worked, but people know this is a desperate measure from a government that no longer has the goodwill of the general public to make such a pre-election giveaway work.
Only 12 months ago we were being told that NI cuts were unaffordable. Well the economy must be going great guns now if suddenly we can afford a 4% cut...
Instead of short term sticking plasters, what we need is a truly radical long term plan for growth over the next 50 years, along with the investment to support that.
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