Most radio and TV chatter focused on what wasn’t in the Budget. Nothing on social care, no extra help for me, us, them, him. What also wasn’t there was much of the stuff we were worried would be. No mention of pension tax relief, inheritance, capital gains and nasty, new wealth taxes. Instead, he was stealthy, he let off the wealthy and I won’t embarrass myself by trying to squeeze ‘healthy’ into this sentence. The ‘stealthy’, not inflation-linking various allowances, won’t creep up on us until both Boris and Rishi are long-gone. But I do think Brexit Britain will rue the corporation tax hikes.
“Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation”
I suspect that many a ‘boomer’ might be pleased with the ‘problem generation’ label. When they were teen- or twenty-somethings, their parents’ generation may well have either despaired of them or worried about the world into which they were emerging as adults; it will ever be thus.