Rachel Reeves tells Whitehall to make huge cuts before autumn budget

21 comments

1. From *where?* There isn’t a government body in the country that isn’t close to re-using toilet roll.

2. People who are currently living in the UK, I feel so sorry for you

3. A decade plus of Tory cuts have already fucked us but now when Labour add one more they’ll get to carry the can.

   What the fuck were we doing with the 14 years of cuts we suffered under Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak?

4. I was under the impression we could tax the energy companies and leave the low and middle earners alone right? Right?

5. Sounds like she wants to implement Austerity!
   Kind of hypocritical….

6. Haven’t they just spent the last 14 years talking about how austerity has killed millions?

   “but its all the previous governments fault”

   Thats exactly what last government said about their austerity too?

   Rinse and repeat, just change the rosette.

   What difference does this switching between red and blue make? By the ens of this parliment the national debt will have ballooned further, immigration hitting all time highs, crime up, quality of life down, more people permenantly relying on the welfare state etc etc etc

   And then we go to the polls to vote red or blue in to just carry it on again.

   This is insanity.

7. We had the chance in 2019 but we preferred the guy who hid in a fridge to the man who wanted to change things.

   The establishment got what they wanted and we deserve the consequences.

8. Labours going to need 10 years of clawing at our wallets to get us to a good place with the economy. None of this is short term.

   I just hope the British people don’t have a short memory and go back to voting the Tories back in.

9. Let’s be brutally frank in the immediate short term with what they’ve been left on the table, it seems like managed decline is the only sensible solution until we accept we have to live to lower standards where we only get the services we can afford & at the moment the country doesn’t have a pot to pee in.

   I’m willing to give them 12 months as we should start seeing the direction of travel is by then (or its just Austerity 2.0). At that point – you cut to the chase and stick Nigel in as that’s what the narrative seems to be pushing towards isn’t it?

10. One of the local GPs near me had one nurse available until she went on maternity and GP told my mums friend with learning disability you’ll just have to go to A&E to have bandages changed. More cuts is just unsustainable.

11. Hahaha I want them to post up the costs of government etc..and let the people choose!! Let’s see how much is spent on… Slush fund or petty cash or entertainment or I dunno redesign costs etc show the people paying it what’s the bill!

12. “We’ve had one austerity yes, but what about second austerity?”

    “I don’t think austerity ever ended, Pip”

13. This is all pointless , until you control the illegal immigration. The 22 billion black hole they talk about is 7.5 years of keeping them in hotels at current rate. The answer is simple no control of the immigration means no control of your economy.

14. Murdoch owned Tory supporting paper making claims of huge government cuts.

    I won’t hold my breath till the autumn budget

15. *socialist labour will never win, we need Tory-lite Starmer to beat the tories*

    *Labour implements austerity*

    *shocked pikachu face*.

    I’m surprised people are surprised by this. If only parties that implement policies like this are electable then policies like this are bound to happen.

16. She is a menace to the country. She’s just an austerity-loving neoliberal.

17. I earn about double the UK average salary. I would happily pay more tax if it meant raising living standards for everyone who needs it.

    Anyone who earns/owns considerably more than me is a disgrace if they wouldn’t do the same.

18. Whats this?

    Labour understanding that actually, there is not a magic money tree and cuts to public spending are absolutely a thing that has to happen?

    My word.

    I mean, they will make the cuts in all the wrong places because they are disgusting commies with a political and world out look that would be embarrassing for your average sixth former but its a start.

19. So far Labour have done an excellent job of proving all the people who say there is no point in voting because both parties are essentially the same.

    And they are going to up taxes despite running off a manifesto which clearly said no tax rises.

    There is absolutely zero democracy in the British system. The only way in 2029 is total political reform from top to bottom.

20. How did labour see all those years of austerity destroy the country and then say “Let’s do the same!!!”

    Amazing way to stab your own voters in the back.

21. The Tories left a huge black hole. They lied about the treasury and home office spending. It’s a fubar.