Off Topic JULY 4th 2024 6 months JAN 2025 ..chaos+ more fibs +roughshod attitudes+backtracking +++ C R A S H++

The joke is that Labour can clearly see where they could save tens of billions of pounds such as being ruthless with Welfare payments and just ensuring that the most needy are actually looked after, which is what it was designed to do, not give out freebies to those who are a little anxious occasionally (which is part of being human, not a medical condition that deserves being paid for) but the backbenchers, all who are in fear of their own positions at the next election, won't allow it.
Catch 22

 

the OBR is like the "overseer" of the countries wealth health.
A consortium of extremely clever financial brains, if you had a ladder with 20 rungs on it ... no say 50 rungs on it [ more realistic! ] then Rattlesnake Rach from accounts would be on rung 2 and the least brainy of the financial whizzers would be on rung 45!
We are destined for a melt down, my finger is hovering over the button to sell my ISA and turn into Cash the moment there is breath of suspicion another "covid type thing" comes along.

Remember "the tories had righted the ship come 2020 we were in the black and had money to invest in the future" Covid and the energy crisis blew that to smithereens and the tories took flack generated by a opposition that had no plans except negativity.. the media needed to generate negative news to sell its wares and then 8 million mostly tory voters didnt!