Labour's getting a ticking off from the speaker for all of their leaks, especially the budget being leaked before it's gone to the house. What a shabby set of ****s they are.
They announced 250 new neighbourhood health centres yesterday, so that money has already been repurposed. Now I am not sure how many neighbourhoods there are in the country but I think that 250 is a very small percentage. Do not hold your breath expecting a new one anywhere near you and no mention of where the people are coming from to staff them. They are probably expecting them to arrive by dinghy in the next few weeks if the weather is okay in the Channel.
The OBR report that was leaked two hours early – it had already been announced on the BBC by their economics editor before Rachel from Accounts started her speech – says that productivity will grow by 0.3% less than original expectations. No surprise that the Chancellor blames that on the Tories, who have not been destroying the economy for the last 16 months; and have not raised the tax take to 38% of GDP. Curiously, the OBR also forecasts that GDP will grow 0.5% more than it forecast in March for this year but the Chancellor has not credited that to the Tories. It will surely be the Tories’ fault that the forecast for 2026 is down 0.5% and down by 0.2% for 2027 and 2028. When the bond vigilantes got the OBR report early, the yield on ten year gilts initially fell but now they have read it they are back up again.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20251126-france-set-revive-military-conscription-–-but-this-time-it-s-voluntary?utm_medium=push_web&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_source=editorial France set to revive military conscription – but this time it's voluntary Yeah good luck with recruiting all those 3rd World scum North African muslamics to defend France from Russia
Christ, this woman really does live in a fantasy world. It is a bit hypocritical of her to criticise the Tories for “choking our economic growth” when the OBR report forecasts that she will do the same for the next three years (at least). £5 million extra money for libraries in secondary schools. There are over 4,000 secondary schools so that is £1,250 each. Does she know how much books cost these days? She will be off colouring hers in soon. £18 million extra money for playground improvements. Is that secondary schools (4,000) or primary schools (20,000) as well? That is £750 each if it is the whole school sector or £4,500 if it is just secondary schools or £900 if it is just primary schools. Does she know what playground equipment costs these days? This is Diane Abbott style arithmetic.
Hope a bunch of these farmers blocking the roads get arrested. They were told. Think about ambulances, etc… Or is this different? Probably.
The much-vaunted “Mansion Tax” is another piece of economics from the Diane Abbott arithmetic class. Stalin 2.0 will have to find £2,500 from down the back of the sofa at his £2m London house, as will lots of his neighbours. The ones just down the road with the £5m houses will have to find £7,500. Obviously most of the people that will end up paying this will be in the South East and London; however, the voters in Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Brent and other scumbag Liebour voting areas won’t be affected. This will generate paltry levels of revenue but it keeps some of the far Left loonies on the government’s back benches happy.
I am guessing that the rise in gambling taxes is going to be used to fund the removal of the “two child benefit cap” as she says that it is “fully funded and fully costed”. That will be popular in Liebour constituencies where they need to keep the votes of people of Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnicity. According to statistics from the Children’s Commissioner, families with three or more children are 41% of Pakistani and 38% of Bangadeshi ethnic origin and only 14% of white British. Interestingly, the number of ‘economically inactive’ women mirrors the percentage of those households. More benefits for those breeding your replacements while not actually paying much in taxes.
