Readers discuss who the Budget is benefiting, if new economic plans will lower the cost of food and Metro’s cartoons (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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Following the Budget, 'the greatest ire we hear is from the wealthy,' says reader
At last we have a Budget that does not simply reward the wealthy.
It is time for those at the bottom of the pile to be given the support they need.
The greatest ire we hear is from the wealthy, who don’t believe they should pay more tax on their property, their second homes or private education and from those who receive massive bonuses and dividends that are beyond the dreams of the majority of the population.
A Lloyd, Liverpool
This reader says it’s time for the Budget to cater to the ‘bottom of the pile’ (Picture: Getty Images)
How will the Budget ‘do anything to reduce food prices?’, questions reader
I’m at a loss to see how this Budget will do anything to reduce food prices, reopen empty shops, encourage people to go to work or to save for their future.
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It appears we are being asked to pay more in taxes to fund a ridiculously high welfare budget and to provide a nest egg for the government.
Yes, the chancellor has managed to tinker with the figures to keep her colleagues happy but what has she achieved for the country as a whole?
It is no surprise that British nationals are leaving the country in droves – 109,000 more left than arrived in the year to June.
The future of the UK is looking bleak and I cannot see any prospect of improvement while the current government is in power. JD, London
Metro’s cartoon gets some feedback…
Regarding the drawing of a medieval catapult by your cartoonist Guy (Metro, Thu). I know there is such a thing as artistic licence and I only passed O-Level physics, but exactly how is that thing supposed to work? If you cut the rope holding the small boulder on the short end of the fulcrum, it will just fall down and the big boulder in the cup at the other end won’t move at all.
And if the big boulder is supposed to launch the small boulder, it is already in the down position. What did the Romans ever do for us? Well, hopefully a far better catapult design than that. Gary O’Brien, Birmingham
This reader says there is a design flaw in this illustration… (Picture: Guy Venables)
And the cartoonist offers a response…
Dear Gary, I designed it so that the rope at the spoon end of the TREBUCHET is released, launching the large rock.
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However the large rock is deliberately larger than the small rock as it is in ‘safety mode’ at the moment because it is being displayed to a bureaucrat.
I take trebuchet safety very seriously and would never depict a loaded, unsafe trebuchet in case anyone tried to build it. Guy, Metro Towers
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