The standard Modus Operandii for this bunch is, prior to a really hard hitting budget, release a bunch of really severe bad news as potential moves they’ll make, then, when the reality is announced it suddenly doesn’t sound ‘that bad’. Given this is going to have to be big in both additional taxation and cost cutting, there will be some hit pretty bad.
I’d not be sitting comfortably if I drove an EV or was middle income. those struggling will be spared as much as possible as there’s an argument for not wasting the money used to bail people out through Covid, same for small business but those of a size that could ‘survive’ a few extra hardships could find themselves with a huge target, as they couldn’t target the biggest earners too hard, that’s just not Conservative.
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