General election – latest: Reeves says Tories’ economic plan is ‘insult’ to Brits as she vows to bring growth

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1. The Tories have an economic plan, other than ‘soak the workers to bribe the retirees’?

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3. She comes across more prime ministerial than Starmer.

4. Bring Growth lol … Bring Re-Education it’s win-win like Secondary School Again or college again ,

5. I wondered why a gift of money to OAP’s would aid economic growth, it doesn’t encourage people to work harder does it? Maybe take on a retirement job.
   Personally I think OAPs should be embarrassed to be simply offered a wedge, but it’s what my grandparents were like in the 80’s, they liked a party based on a calculation of what they would get only – despite having children and grandchildren.

6. Tory Plan = bribe the pensioners, tax the middle aged to death, force the young into the army

7. She says a lot of words without saying exactly how they will do it, hopefully they’re more clear in their actual manifesto but it sounds like we won’t know until 10 weeks into their term, for understandable reasons. I would rather Labour than the Tories but currently it’s really putting faith in phrases and it literally not being possible to be worse than the Tories.

8. All of them are obsessed with growth, but who really benefits from that growth?

   We need growth for regular people, not growth for investors, businesses and the richest individuals.

   You can grow our economy by 10% tomorrow, it won’t help us at all if all of that growth goes to the likes of Amazon and Lloyds.

   Stop sacrificing our quality of life in the name of overall growth.

9. Moving the deck chairs around on the Titanic comes to mind, both parties are failures. 1 or 2 percent here and there is going to do fuck all. We need big tax reform, big investment in infrastructure, big green energy plans, massive NHS fund increase, tired of this slightly moving shit about and being surprised when things just get worse. I’m expected to live within my means with the money I have, the country is 2.5 Trillion in debt, that’s pretty fucking shite governing.

10. What actually is Labours plan on the economy? Just saying things like “the need for a partnership with business and workers” doesn’t really cut it.

    This person would become the chancellor, right? What is she going to do?

11. Tories really gunning for votes from a population that aren’t going to be alive for that long

12. Does this growth rely on doping the economy with mass importation of labour despite us not having the housing and infrastructure to accommodate it? Because that’s all we’ve had for the past 15-20 years and it’s now past the limit.

13. What is the plan labour? I’m starved of actual policy info on all sides.

14. I’m tired of hearing about growth, it never comes to us hard working plebs.

15. Today’s young are tomorrows oldies. Seems a lot here forget that