Budget takes us back to the 50s

SO, the Tory Chancellor thinks he can palm us off with another lot of kidology.

He gives pensioners and people on benefits what they are entitled to and expects them to fall at his feet in gratitude. The mess we’re now in has been created by 12 years of Tory misrule. We watched them give billions to their friends during Covid and refuse to try to recover any of it.

We watched them party and break their own rules while we watched relatives and friends die alone. This country was built on our parents and grandparents’ backs through hard work and sticking together.

Let’s get back a sense of pride and duty – a duty to look after and help everyone in our communities, and fight for a better future for our children and grandchildren.

John Harland

Nafferton, East Yorks

David Cameron said we’re “all in this together” as George Osborne imposed crippling austerity measures on the country which have gone on and on and on. Over the past 12 years the Tories have mismanaged the economy, trashed public services and brought the NHS to the point of collapse.

All we ever get from them are promises of better days ahead but we know any jam tomorrow is reserved for themselves and their rich mates. We must invest in working people, offering new green, technological, sustainable employment, but Hunt’s empty rhetoric

shows the future under the Tories condemns us to more of the same. John Sedgwick, Tamworth, Staffs

One area of public spending where there could be cuts, which the Chancellor omitted to mention, is the hospitality available in the Houses of Parliament. Why did he not announce that the massive subsidies in the bars and restaurants in Parliament would be withdrawn?

Although the savings would be a drop in the ocean, it would at least show the public MPs are willing to take their share of the misery the rest of us are going to have to suffer.

After all, are we not “all in this together”?

R C Bowerman, West London

Labour must not allow Rishi Sunak to distance himself from our economic crisis. He was Chancellor when billions were wasted on unsuitable PPE and the disastrous test and trace scheme. His plans for growth and levelling up never got off the drawing board and now, as our third prime minister in three months, it seems all he can offer us is more pain and uncertainty.

Len Goodwin, Doncaster

So, the Conservatives decide to raise benefits in line with inflation and increase the minimum wage by 9.7% which is 1.4% below inflation. This is a real terms pay cut for millions of working-class people. Great work Mr Hunt!

It is now time for a general election and to let the country have its say and hopefully rid us of these Conservative clowns.

Andy Crosbie, Corby, Northants

Your editorial rightly blames the financial ineptitude of the Tories for the recession, along with the pandemic and the war in Ukraine (Mirror, November 17).

But the most damaging shambles is surely the failed Brexit? The elephant in the room, conveniently ignored by all senior politicians.

Keith Brown, Doncaster

To all those working-class voters who put this lot in power in 2019, you have now got what you deserve. Unfortunately the rest of us have to suffer as well.

I am 78 and have lived under too many Tory governments.

John Hardy, Hull