I am absolutely disgusted and so disheartened that a Labour government is freezing personal tax allowances for a further three years. We’re all well aware that books have to be balanced, but we all know that freezing tax allowances disproportionately affects lower earners. Add to this the inflation increase over the last few years and it’s surely careless at best and heartless at worst. I’d like to say “unbelievable”, but it’s not, is it?
Su Hardman
Woodbridge, Suffolk
• Is it mansplaining to point out that Rachel Reeves could have scrapped the two-child limit and the benefit cap – “rape clause” and all – in her first budget as the UK’s first-ever female chancellor? It’s not a matter of gender; more one of having the political will to get rid of a deliberately cruel Tory policy at the earliest opportunity.
Derrick Cameron
Stoke-on-Trent
• I found Kemi Badenoch’s contribution to the budget debate an example of adversarial politics at its worst. What an example of how leaders behave. So much vitriol.
Ann Newell
Thame, Oxfordshire
• Those bemused by the budget can save money at yuletide. Don’t buy an Advent calendar. Use last year’s. Sod the Christmas tree. You’ll only put it by the bins in six weeks’ time. On no account succumb to a panettone. Costs a fortune, tastes of nothing and makes you plump. Thank me later.
Max Bell
Thame, Oxfordshire
• Is the Office for Budget Responsibility now going to drop the “responsibility” bit from its name (How Rachel Reeves’s budget was leaked 40 minutes early, 26 November)?
John Rathbone
Kidderminster, Worcestershire
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