I parlamentari laburisti sollecitano Reeves a spendere decine di miliardi in più per i servizi pubblici in difficoltà
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/13/labour-mps-urge-reeves-to-spend-tens-of-billions-more-on-ailing-public-services
di callthesomnambulance
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Good, I’m glad someone is finally putting that pressure on. Public services and their continued investment is key to encouraging growth in the UK. Local authorities, the NHS and emergency services desperately need additional funding.
We won’t raise tax on workers! Just on the people who pay the workers, as a direct % of how much they pay said workers. No possible knock on effects on workers like this. 🙂
Abolish Employer’s NI. Show us our real tax burden.
This is one of the many differences in my opinion between the tories and Labour. You never saw this kind of pressure from tories MPs. Even if it isn’t successful this time the fact they think they can influence ministers is a key difference
Do it. Raise taxes and/or increase borrowing to do it. Public services are fucked, they need serious investment.
Investment in key sectors is needed for sure. Health, energy, transport outside of London, defence.
However pouring money in faster than people can be educated in the field and trained in the job will merely fuel inflation and get very poor value for money. This isn’t a 5 year programme that will deliver much before next election, except inflation and debt if its pushed too quickly.
For instance, post covid the construction sector is already overheating both in terms if skilled labour and materials. So there are limits to what can be done with just money short term. Its a scaling up of the industry thats needed to deliver sustainable improvements that don’t stoke inflation. This starts will tilting the balance in schools, colleges and universities to useful applicable skills and training. Retraining the large numbers of “graduates” with useless degrees takes time too.
The NHSs biggest single issue is a lack of staff. That isn’t fixed by throwing money at the current Labour pool. Its fixed by making it worth their while to work more years (don’t whack their pension) and in expanding the education, training and recruitment of medics at all levels to expand the labour pool. Thats a 15 year program. It will have a good financial case , to reduce locums, speed diagnosis and treatment but its definitely not quick and no amount of money delivers a quick fix in that.