Headlines like this are so cringe it’s unbelievable.
What austerity? Yearly Government spending now stands at £1.217 trillion. Around £1 in every £5 spent is on the NHS. Around £1 in every £3 is on benefits and pensions.
Enough is enough. We literally cannot afford this. Deficit as a portion of GDP is almost at the 5% mark
Grouchy having a conversation with themself here.
“Read my lips: no austerity under Labour”
It’s a very confusing thing for the layman because we have both austerity, and an increase in government spending as percentage of gdp at the same time. This is possible because of several things. First, covid is an obvious one. More worryingly though we have an aging population and an nhs, pension and social care system that is overspending. The boomer generation was big by definition, hense tbe costs. We do also have waste, self defeating lack of imvestment and brexit. That’s not us even getting into the lack of productivity due to lack of private investment and many other things.
Yea there was some tory corruption as well which is disgusting but it’s wishful thinking to say getting rid of them will solve tbe problem. It’s the solution we want to believe because it is simple and we want to think having our team or “good guys” in change is going to save us.
Unfortunately, I feel there are long term technical, structural changes needed that are very politically problematic. Neither labour or the snp are going to have some magic bullet for our deficit and lack of investment. We probably do need austerity in some areas while also investing for the future at the same time. Sacrifice today for tomorrow for a change rather than than the other way around.
Make the rich pay for austerity. They caused the cirses. I marched against Cameron, I’ll march against Keith.
Centre left kier Starmer emulating famous centre left duo Dave Cameron and George Osborne.
Find it funny right wing rags are calling Starmer a Marxist and in the same breath complaining he’s stopping giving government handouts to all pensioners.
Had the chance,45%.
I can’t see what’s left to cut. To say that public services are a shadow of their former selves is an insult to the integrity of shadows.
This country has failed.
It’s so dumb, austerity didn’t work in 2010 why do they think it’ll work now, make a lot more sense to try and go for growth and for a more positive approach. UK is led by idiots, regardless of which party is in power.
My hunch is that it’s going to be pain all the way down until people are actively begging politicians to rejoin the Common Market.
Not in Scotland though. Sarwar promised!
And by years of austerity he means even *more* years of austerity.
I know Cameron & Osborne are long gone, but it doesn’t feel like austerity ever ended.
This is a choice, labour doesn’t have to do it this way.
After 14 years of pilfering and thievery and shoveling money to mates and donors and owners, plus Brexshit, what did we expect? The cupboard is bare, they probably even hoiked the shelves to some offshore parasite pal.
It will take a generation to recover from the past 14 years, and we may never get back to where we were…
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Headlines like this are so cringe it’s unbelievable.
What austerity? Yearly Government spending now stands at £1.217 trillion. Around £1 in every £5 spent is on the NHS. Around £1 in every £3 is on benefits and pensions.
Enough is enough. We literally cannot afford this. Deficit as a portion of GDP is almost at the 5% mark
Grouchy having a conversation with themself here.
“Read my lips: no austerity under Labour”
It’s a very confusing thing for the layman because we have both austerity, and an increase in government spending as percentage of gdp at the same time. This is possible because of several things. First, covid is an obvious one. More worryingly though we have an aging population and an nhs, pension and social care system that is overspending. The boomer generation was big by definition, hense tbe costs. We do also have waste, self defeating lack of imvestment and brexit. That’s not us even getting into the lack of productivity due to lack of private investment and many other things.
Yea there was some tory corruption as well which is disgusting but it’s wishful thinking to say getting rid of them will solve tbe problem. It’s the solution we want to believe because it is simple and we want to think having our team or “good guys” in change is going to save us.
Unfortunately, I feel there are long term technical, structural changes needed that are very politically problematic. Neither labour or the snp are going to have some magic bullet for our deficit and lack of investment. We probably do need austerity in some areas while also investing for the future at the same time. Sacrifice today for tomorrow for a change rather than than the other way around.
Make the rich pay for austerity. They caused the cirses. I marched against Cameron, I’ll march against Keith.
Centre left kier Starmer emulating famous centre left duo Dave Cameron and George Osborne.
Find it funny right wing rags are calling Starmer a Marxist and in the same breath complaining he’s stopping giving government handouts to all pensioners.
Had the chance,45%.
I can’t see what’s left to cut. To say that public services are a shadow of their former selves is an insult to the integrity of shadows.
This country has failed.
It’s so dumb, austerity didn’t work in 2010 why do they think it’ll work now, make a lot more sense to try and go for growth and for a more positive approach. UK is led by idiots, regardless of which party is in power.
My hunch is that it’s going to be pain all the way down until people are actively begging politicians to rejoin the Common Market.
Not in Scotland though. Sarwar promised!
And by years of austerity he means even *more* years of austerity.
I know Cameron & Osborne are long gone, but it doesn’t feel like austerity ever ended.
This is a choice, labour doesn’t have to do it this way.
After 14 years of pilfering and thievery and shoveling money to mates and donors and owners, plus Brexshit, what did we expect? The cupboard is bare, they probably even hoiked the shelves to some offshore parasite pal.
It will take a generation to recover from the past 14 years, and we may never get back to where we were…
But it’s stunning and brave when labour does it
Gave Savilles mate £45 million