Happy with the Spring Statement today, to bring change to our country, bring security for working people, and a decade of national renewal. Rebuilding our public services, stepping up to help restore stability, NHS waiting lists down, and increase the national living wage. Promising to grow our economy without any further tax increases. Increase defence spending to 2.5% and reform the British state, bringing down day to day spending. Abolishing NHS England, reduce costly agency spend and cost of running the government. Inflation down to 2% by 2027 New forecasts from OBR halved growth down to 1% but looking to grow our economy with fiscal rules non-negotiable. To make the UK a defence industrial superpower. To get Britain building again, 60,000 new construction jobs to "Build baby build". The OBR have concluded these plans will permanently increase the level of real GDP, the biggest positive growth impact the OBR has ever forecast, with no fiscal cost. Transformative. The future looks rosy, the future is Red.
I wish I could share your optimism. I think it is more of the negative and poor quality thinking we saw last time around in her budget and the vulnerable bearing the brunt. Backtracked on the amount of the rise to UC. Health element frozen. PIPs disappearing - I have a family member living in fear over this. 250000 families and 50000 more kids pushed into poverty. Disgrace imo. I wont even start on the complete lack of attention to the education system and the needs of our young people. Instead we will fail to build houses, fail to cut cost of govt, etc. Hard to trust her when last week her welfare cuts were worth £5m according to her but she has been corrected to £3.4bn. I actually predicted she would be a good chancellor too! Defence spending! Oh well, Donald will be giving us a thumbs up, for an hour at least. I remember on here the tories getting hammered for blaming outside or worldwide influences on economic failings. Well here we have a Labour party repeating the same old story. Sorry, I find the whole thing entirely predictable and depressing. Blue or Red, irrelevant, neither have the wherewithall to make the right calls. They are identical twins really. We need more money to stand still, let alone progress, and I think everyone knows what the best way to raise money is. I genuinely fear for my two lads, entering adulthood. Might need a beer.
Great coments Fell lad. I'm looking forward to the next few years. Starmer definitely bats with a straight bat, he'll walk if it doesn't pan out as planned.
I wonder if it would have been any better under the other idiots! Couldn’t have been much worse to be honest! But we thought that when these got in
Aye mate thanksfor asking. I check in every now and then but under the cosh at work and with her statement today, hopefully i may be able to apply for redundancy ....so not all bad
If you read the comments about how much wiggle room Reeves left herself to play with, you'd think she was out of her depth. When you look at the past 30 odd years figures, you will find it is the 3rd lowest... the other two were last year (tory) and 3 years ago...
I always knew it would be a tough year or two as we need to save money somewhere and as a nation we are absolutely skint. The amount we spend on benefits is unsustainable and there are many who don't need it, I'm sure we all know someone gaming the system. Saying that there is probably a lot more money to be found taxing the big corporations and the very wealthy. Gas and Electric companies still get away with murder. And what's the chances we see any money returned from the PPE scandals? I guess they may take longer to claw back if at all. I'd still trust this lot more than the last openly corrupt bunch, and Farage is just a mini-me wannabe version of Trump. Honestly the bloke makes me sick. The bottom line is we have no money, any sensible government will need to cut money somewhere and I wouldn't wish the job on my worst enemy. I just don't know if they are going about it the right way however.
Hope they do the correct thing and sack the CEO then. It would be totally wrong to let him continue and keep picking up the bonuses
I still think they should tax the wealthy more to give our kids a decent quality of life, joyful activities and support of a trusted adult and role model who isn’t their parent, whatever their family income. It would create more happy healthy employable kids if that provision. existed. Beneath the headlines some things aren’t as bad as you think as money has just moved around. I generally think people should make an effort to work and it seems they are commissioning better help to do so but equally pulling the safety net away shouldn’t happen.
I think the number 2 guy explained it better... saying they are taking their £10 pocket money (PIP) off them if they can work.., then they are insentivised to go out to work.. and possibly earn more than £10.
"To make the UK a defence industrial superpower." ****ing great that. I might be reading this wrong but to me it reads like when all the world around us is falling in mayhem and war, the UK government is deciding to go deep on arms dealing?
