Is that receipts from council house sales ringfenced into new social housing? I hope so. The council in Birmingham has ballsed things up so comprehensively through ripping off its own female employees that it is now selling off assets and local residents have had a 10% rise in council tax - and will have another 10% next year. I bet lots of councils of all political colours in financial **** would just love to use these receipts to offset against their own incompetence. Don’t get why duty on rolling tobacco goes up by 10%, more than any other kind of tobacco. Isn’t it more likely to be used by ‘working people’?
Well there’s another potential source of income ignored, but then I think we have the puritanical ‘we know best’ wing of Labour in the ascendant at the moment.
whats the assumptions no one left to arrive Home Office budget to shrink by 3.1% this year and 3.3% next year in real terms, due to assumed savings from asylum system
I wonder if the Telegraph is happy now that half of their scaremongering has been shown to be a figment of the imagination in Tory Central office. The proof of the pudding of course will be whether the spending announced on the NHS achieves improvements in the levels of service and availability of care where its needed most. I have various aches and pains and those I experience six years ago were attributable to the onset of a lymphoma. Yet when I looked online there were no appointments available for me to see my GP for the next 4 weeks. Let's face it it could not have got much worse as a result of 'prudent' financial management by the Conservatives and all of the broken promises by their anointed saviour, Boris Johnson. Still waiting for the first brick to be laid in just one of the new hospitals he promised. I may be wrong but don't recall any Telegraph editorials reporting on that.
It's fun to watch the Tory press - the very people that hailed the Truss/Kwarteng mini-budget as a triumph before it all unravelled - doing their very best to rubbish the Reeves budget.
Kemi Badenoch new leader of the opposition...reading about her. I bet there aren't many other Conservative leaders who worked in McDonald's to support themselves when at uni. Good on her.
Today is Election Day in the States. We won't know the result of the Presidential race for a few days. I am genuinely terrified of what is going to happen before now and then. Civil unrest will be the tip of the iceberg. None of the ballots have been counted and both sides claim election fraud.
Either way nigh on 50% of people who voted will feel disenfranchised Receipe for 4 more years of chaos and US hegemonic decline China and Russia rubbing their hands
Not even the slim possibility of a nuclear war before Saturday as it’s not like Trump takes over straight away. Perhaps Israel could drop one on Tehran and spare us some pain.
