BUDGET

So it is 17 days to the budget. Plenty of time for the billionaire owned press to fabricate stories, and for disgruntled civil servants (Public School trained) to ‘leak’ stuff. Cos that is what it is at the moment, just stuff. Hopefully labour will have a budget that is socially equable – when was the last one? Hopefully it will have major environmental and climatic concessions. With Hinkley Point needing to raise another £5 billion and carbon capture needing £22 billion (can someone publish the sums where the carbon giants are being bribed to co-operate)! New housing is great and needed but not at the cost to our waterways. Increasing tax on homes left empty would be great but problematic!