If the Chancellor unveils a Scrooge Budget…then God help us. Everyone - Mick Booker

In recent weeks, dread has built about what fiscal fate we face as a country shortly after Midday on Wednesday.Tax rise after tax rise has been floated.

Things look so bleak that I wouldn’t be surprised if she’d considered a ‘humbug tax’ - although I’m sure that’s covered by nanny state sugar levies already.

A bizarre recent early morning press conference seemed to signal changes to income tax, and a broken Labour manifesto pledge that would have hit millions in the pocket.

But after widespread uproar from people like you and me, as well as Labour MPs fearing for their seats at the next election, she U-turned.

An already beleaguered-looking Chancellor was left weaker still. Like I said before, there’s almost as much pity for her as fear.

Despite all that, she’s still got the keys to the Treasury. And big changes that could hit family finances like a bombshell just weeks before Christmas still loom. We pray she doesn’t turn Scrooge.

We can only hope she sees the ominous ghosts of Budgets past on Tuesday night, and wakes up instead on Wednesday with a plan to transform our lives for the better.GB News brought you the human fallout of last year’s Budget in the days, weeks and months after she delivered it.

And we hope she sees the despair of those people we spoke to in her dreams before picking up that famous red box.

In particular, she’d do well to remember Billy Pounder.GB News presenter Patrick Christys brought him to national attention when he visited him at home - a bungalow in Stanley, Co Durham.

Pensioner Billy, a former miner, was struggling so badly to make ends meet, a position made worse by the Budget, that he moved a single portable heater from room to room, only able to heat one room at a time.

We brought him to the attention of the Prime Minister, and shortly afterwards, the Department for Work and Pensions were in touch to help. But there are thousands of ‘Billy Pounders’ out there. And they don’t always get the help they need.

People are battling to make ends meet due to parlous decisions made by Chancellors of both main parties over many years.

Whatever happens, GB News will be with you every step of the way. Like we were with Billy, and like we were with the entire farming community after they were hit with changes to Inheritance rules dubbed the ‘family farm tax’.We were the channel that gave a voice to their struggle when others ignored them.

And we vow to continue giving them a platform to speak directly to the politicians who have the fate of their families in their hands. GB News has and always will be a friend to anyone who needs us.

Some may scoff; they simply don’t get it and probably never will, but GB News isn’t and will never be just an average TV news channel.

We want to help change things for the better in this amazing country and believe we can do that. But we will only achieve it with you. Now, together, we await our Budget fate.

If Scrooge does make an appearance in the House of Commons on Wednesday, we will stand up for you in the aftermath.

You have our word, it’s what friends do. As Tiny Tim might have said: “God help us. Everyone…”