Budget won’t fix country’s woes

■ For 14 long years we have seen successive Conservative governments struggling to manage the country’s finances. Now it seems the only strategy they have left is to give tax cuts before the coming election.

However, their past mishandling of the economy has left them short of the money they need to deliver the significant cuts they hope will help to improve their polling figures. Therefore Hunt has stolen Labour’s idea to scrap the non-dom tax status.

This is a massive win-win for the Conservatives because it would mean that for Labour to win the next election they will have to come up with a new eye-catching policy to help promote the growth the country so desperately needs to get out of this endless spiral of declining public services, austerity, poverty and the ongoing cost of living crisis.

Len Goodwin, Doncaster South Yorks

■ Jeremy Hunt has slippery fingers when it comes to his stewardship of public money. He gives a penny with one gesture and takes back 10 with another. The Tories seem to think the Treasury is their own personal bank account for them to squander as they see fit.

Hunt’s tax reduction bribes will be an absolute disaster for the country, imposed in a vain attempt to temporarily bolster the Tory Party’s irreparably tarnished reputation. What remains of public services will collapse leaving rich pickings for the private sector jackals and we’ll be lucky if Labour can rescue any of them.

The self-serving Conservative Party is unfit to make any economic decisions for this country. The fear is they’ll cause as much damage as they can before they are finally kicked out of office.

John Irving, Leeds

■ The Tories are desperately trying to give the impression they are a new government, not one that has been ruling this country on behalf of the rich and powerful for 14 years. They cut National Insurance while trying to avoid drawing attention to the effect that freezing tax thresholds has on those on the lowest incomes.

This was the most politically motivated Budget I have ever seen – and we also have the prospect of another one before the election.

Alan Mercer, Chorley, Lancs

■ I wonder how many of us would gladly give up our 2p National Insurance reduction if it meant an ambulance would turn up on time, or we’d spend less time in A&E?

How many of us would like to drive down our roads safely instead of trying to avoid hitting a pothole? This Government has no idea what is important to the vast majority of people in this country.

The time has come for Labour to clear up the Tories’ mess.

Paul Booker, Clay Cross, Derbys

■ If Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is so confident his party’s spring Budget is the answer to the country’s poor state, he should test the people’s support by going to the polls in May. That way we will see if his Chancellor’s Budget has given us what we need and deserve. Is he a man or a mouse?

Phil German, Abergare Rhondda Cynon Taf

■ What a load of rubbish from this Chancellor who ran the National Health Service into the ground when he was Health Secretary.

Now he’s running the country into the ground in the same way. This Budget won’t benefit normal working-class people one bit. It’s simply a piece of pre-election Tory propaganda.

Alan Woodcock, Lincoln