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There are two fundamental issues at play: the first is that everyone wants better services, but nobody wants to pay for them; the second is that there are a hell of a lot of very thick people out there.
Latest YouGov (from this week):
If you had to choose, which do you think is the best approach for improving the public finances?
Tax increases: 31%
Spending cuts: 43%Internal ‘civil war’ breaks out in Labour government:
Home Secretary Mahmood is said to be considering adopting similar hardline rules to centre left Danish government to deal with the UK’s spiralling migrant crisis.
Such a system could see even genuine asylum seekers granted only temporary status to remain in the UK until they could safely return to their own countries as well as tighter family reunification rules to prevent abuse of the system and even a financial incentive system to encourage repatriation.
But Labour MP Nadia Whittome has said that the Labour Government should ‘not be flirting with’ a Danish style asylum shake up, condemning the Danish policies as all ‘undeniably racist’.“We,ve done tax cuts and austerity under the Tories ….. Err that didn’t work”
Public spending out of control.
10% of GDP is servicing UK debt.
Welfare costs have ballooned.Time to freeze all welfare benefits for 3 years.
Close ALL public sector pension schemes (60-day consultation) and transfer all into money purchase arrangements.
Tackle the Welfare ‘boom’, amongst the under 25s.Work pays, shirking doesnt.
Time for real reform.
If you set taxes at a realistic level then you cover the costs , I agree reform is required but don’t expect steak when paying for the equivalent tin of spam …
Work pays… for the billionaires.
The average worker is worse off, in real terms, than they were twenty years ago. Meanwhile, the mega-rich get mega-richer.
Clive Lewis, A Left wing Labour MP:
“I think it is somewhat concerning that we have a Chancellor who has for the last month been permanently rolling the pitch to see what the public, the media and the City find acceptable. It makes the situation less stable.She is a Chancellor without a long-term economic strategy, who is trying to please as many people as possible and fighting for [her] political survival. This does not inspire confidence.”
Ouch!
The Labour left talking sense, more please. It’s pretty much exactly what some of us here have been saying.
Not that politicians ‘leaking’ ideas to the press to test reaction is anything new. Don’t know why the press still bites, it’s mostly pointless speculation.
Taxes are going up , you can put any spin on it you like but they have to , you might not like the medicine but hey it’s medicine , your not suppose to
Reeves coming back for more in tax rises only 12 months after ‘the last time ‘.
In 2024 she increased taxes by a massive £41.5bn.
The last chancellor to have to come back for more, only 12 months after massive tax rises 1st time around, was Denis Healey (Labour chancellor). Healey’s first was in the Spring of ’74, raising taxes by £28.8bn; he was back again the following Spring (’75) with a £33.3bn bill.
Then, in 1976, Healey went begging to the IMF; in return for the loan, the IMF demanded spending cuts.
History about to repeat itself….maybe.There’s about as much chance of the UK needing an IMF bailout during this government as there is of you voting Green at the next election.
The way many on the right talk you’d think they actually want the country to fail just because their team isn’t in charge and so they can be proved ‘correct’. It’s sad and pathetic.
The right with austerity and then the Truss tax cuts caused the issues but hey they will never admit that , Farage was on LBC yesterday and was asked about the imploding Reform councils , he tried to laugh it off , mentioned a few bad Apple’s …. there’s no way Reform can be trusted to govern
Isn’t it funny how when Reform do something wrong it’s just due to “a few bad apples”, but all immigrants are tarred with the same brush…
Double standards, anyone? 🤔
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