robert palmer, senior meteorologist at the jersey met, talking to us about the situation.be getting the worst of it in the channel islands but has he said, it seems to be easing now. just to say, we are getting a lot of pictures into the bbc news. this first one is from sidmouth in devon and was sent in byjim — one of the bbc weather watchers — it shows the large waves that have been crashing onto the seafront in the town. this next picture is from falmouth in cornwall — it shows one of the many trees that have been brought overnight blocking a road. to portsmouth next on the south coast where a boat has washed up next to submerged benches at canoe lake. these are some of the waves that have been crashing over the harbour wall in folkstone in kent. we know that the channel islands is one of the worst hit areas. this picture is from st saviour in guernsey and shows the damage the high winds has caused to some scaffolding there. finally for the moment another bbc weather watcher has sent us this photo in from frinton—on—sea on the essex coast, where the doors of a beach hut

well i'm joined now by robert palmer of tax justice uk. robert, thank you for coming in again. evening. the obr's forecasts have not got a good track record and it's very interesting, this report . it interesting, this report. it suggests that from essentially fiscal drag revenues will be much higher, isn't it time to give money back to people ? give money back to people? >> i mean, i think what we can see around the country is failing public services. you have almost 8 million people waiting for nhs treatment. you have schools that are literally crumbling around and our teachers and our children in you know, you have other ways in which our public infrastructure is just not working. and so i think really, if the government, if the chancellor had more money, what i would like to see what we would like to see at tax justice uk is more investment in the type of public services. and just to finish, you know, just just to finish, you know, the in terms of our overall the uk in terms of our overall tax is it's very similar tax rates is it's very similar to comparable countries in eu