I could *swear* that during the election she made a whole point about how there’d be no nasty surprises in government cos the shadow government has access to the same data the gov has and had planned to hit the ground running
Lopsided_Rush3935 on
There are not billions more to be found outside of taxing the wealthy more. The UK is cooked without at least substantial wealth redistribution because conservatives and Eurosceptics (primarily) have ran it into a corner and incubated a labour party that is conservative lite.
Much_Educator8883 on
I find it hard to believe that sanctioned russia (which has smaller economy both in terms of nominal total GDP and especially GDP per caita) can throw tens of billions at war without obvious economic damage, and the UK cannot find a reasonable way to balance its budget (or at least avoid imposing unnecessary constraints on itself).
huntsab2090 on
Well the tories/reform could find billions to spunk to their mates so she needs to use the same dodgy methods they did but dont give the billions away to pals/family members.
EdmundTheInsulter on
Has she tried ripping all the old sofas in Whitehall/number 10 to pieces?
I’d recommend something as big as the government to employ an accountant to keep records of where money is, they’ve done a good job with their own spreadsheet, but excel is just a toy really, they need a proper accounts system.
I’d heard that shadow ministers had access to the treasury experts anyway, but labour mustn’t have bothered during the 14 years.
IgneousJam on
We tripled our national debt in the aftermath of 2008. The money was spent bailing out our failing banks. We’ve been fucked ever since.
I’ll bet most people reading this won’t even know that – what does that say about our media?
thinkingisgreat on
I wonder how much they could sell Buckingham palace for ..
DeathDestroyerWorlds on
Well we can save 10 billion quid by not sending free money abroad to *combat* climate change. I suppose however that Labour has to support its own grifters.
highpier on
Tax the super wealthy ❌
Close down a 10 schools and cut over time benefits for police ✅
Calling it
Freelanderman64 on
They’re going to do with what they do Labour are famous for borrowing beyond our means. Sad thing is us lot will have to pay for it
pault230 on
The 20% tax bracket needs to be increased to around 25%. You can’t keep going after the high earners. If you compare with Europe people earning up to the equivalent of £50K pay considerably more.
SpringItOnMe on
Let’s see how many lives she can ruin for pennies saved this time
Vdubnub88 on
I hate to say it… but they are goin to raid the working class again. More contributions for NI and Income. Inheritance tax is a sad one for many reasons, shameful to be taxed when sombody dies.
We are goin to be worse off.
Thestickleman on
I’m sure this will be an excuse to crank up the already ridiculous amount of tax we already pay 🙄
Whatsmyageagain24 on
Why is noone addressing the elephant in the room?
According to this thread, we should stop sending money to tackle climate change, stop housing asylum seekers, get immigrants out and other insane, nonsense right wing rhetoric.
Well, there is one major event which happened in 2016 which has cost the UK economy and absolute fuckton. Funnily enough, that was meant to “solve” the right wings weird obsession with immigration, but it actually increased immigration dramatically lmao. Instead it just made our economy smaller, as predicted.
Is everyone too scared to say it or something? Pathetic.
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I could *swear* that during the election she made a whole point about how there’d be no nasty surprises in government cos the shadow government has access to the same data the gov has and had planned to hit the ground running
There are not billions more to be found outside of taxing the wealthy more. The UK is cooked without at least substantial wealth redistribution because conservatives and Eurosceptics (primarily) have ran it into a corner and incubated a labour party that is conservative lite.
I find it hard to believe that sanctioned russia (which has smaller economy both in terms of nominal total GDP and especially GDP per caita) can throw tens of billions at war without obvious economic damage, and the UK cannot find a reasonable way to balance its budget (or at least avoid imposing unnecessary constraints on itself).
Well the tories/reform could find billions to spunk to their mates so she needs to use the same dodgy methods they did but dont give the billions away to pals/family members.
Has she tried ripping all the old sofas in Whitehall/number 10 to pieces?
I’d recommend something as big as the government to employ an accountant to keep records of where money is, they’ve done a good job with their own spreadsheet, but excel is just a toy really, they need a proper accounts system.
I’d heard that shadow ministers had access to the treasury experts anyway, but labour mustn’t have bothered during the 14 years.
We tripled our national debt in the aftermath of 2008. The money was spent bailing out our failing banks. We’ve been fucked ever since.
I’ll bet most people reading this won’t even know that – what does that say about our media?
I wonder how much they could sell Buckingham palace for ..
Well we can save 10 billion quid by not sending free money abroad to *combat* climate change. I suppose however that Labour has to support its own grifters.
Tax the super wealthy ❌
Close down a 10 schools and cut over time benefits for police ✅
Calling it
They’re going to do with what they do Labour are famous for borrowing beyond our means. Sad thing is us lot will have to pay for it
The 20% tax bracket needs to be increased to around 25%. You can’t keep going after the high earners. If you compare with Europe people earning up to the equivalent of £50K pay considerably more.
Let’s see how many lives she can ruin for pennies saved this time
I hate to say it… but they are goin to raid the working class again. More contributions for NI and Income. Inheritance tax is a sad one for many reasons, shameful to be taxed when sombody dies.
We are goin to be worse off.
I’m sure this will be an excuse to crank up the already ridiculous amount of tax we already pay 🙄
Why is noone addressing the elephant in the room?
According to this thread, we should stop sending money to tackle climate change, stop housing asylum seekers, get immigrants out and other insane, nonsense right wing rhetoric.
Well, there is one major event which happened in 2016 which has cost the UK economy and absolute fuckton. Funnily enough, that was meant to “solve” the right wings weird obsession with immigration, but it actually increased immigration dramatically lmao. Instead it just made our economy smaller, as predicted.
Is everyone too scared to say it or something? Pathetic.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/14/brexit-has-sliced-5percent-off-uk-economic-growth-goldman-sachs-says.html