This is a ticking time bomb. An ageing population, young people being taxed disproportionately, immigration slowing and maybe even reversing. This is calamitous for the economy.

Thanks, and good luck with the shows.

A lot of our brightest young graduates are going to move abroad to avoid paying a 69% marginal tax rate. They will never pay back their loans leaving those left behind to pay for their education.

Kudos to Lewis Goodall for continuing to draw attention to this. It has been ignored by our baby-boomer-focussed mainstream media which is becoming increasingly irrelevant to younger people.

His predictions are always wrong.

I don’t have an issue with the principle of loans. But the system in place is unfair. Why do we have a flat £9k fee even though the cost of degrees varies hugely? And why are some graduates repaying their loans many times over because of exorbitant interest rates while others never pay them back?

They are not really loans at all. It is really just a form of income tax. Glad this is now getting some attention.

I genuinely believe that anyone occupying the position of PM in the UK would be “detested” by the majority of the population. We have become ungovernable. There are no quick fixes and the job of finding the right path between “growth” and “welfare” is seemingly an impossible one to achieve.

For once I agree with Simon Jenkins’ views.

I wonder how many of those 50% of people who rate immigration as a “most important issue” are affected by it in any shape or form (and in a negative way) in their daily lives.

The story needs to arrive first if it is to go away. The statements from Farage’s fellow pupils at Dulwich College were ignored by the mainstream media.

Too often BBC News takes its cue from what is being said in the newspapers rather than deciding how, as an impartial national broadcaster, it should be covering an issue.

It’s a good point. There has been talk of building new reservoirs. Shouldn’t data centers pay a reservoir tax proportionate to how much water they consume and this tax actually goes towards the building of new reservoirs?

At the very least they may support rejoining the customs union. Labour has opened up clear space for a pro business party.

A manifesto is not a narrative. Politics is won and lost on ideas, not manifestos. If Labour cannot tell us clearly what its vision is, and act on that vision rather thank tinkering at the edges then it will continue to lose support.

Not so much a make-or-break budget but one which shapes the direction that this government is taking us in. It has failed until now to build a narrative and (hopefully) this budget will help to create some sort of vision.