The Spring Statement Was a Scam – Today, Rishi Sunak had a chance to tackle the cost of living crisis. Instead, he has left the average family around £1,000 worse off than last year – the biggest fall in living standards since records began.
The Spring Statement Was a Scam – Today, Rishi Sunak had a chance to tackle the cost of living crisis. Instead, he has left the average family around £1,000 worse off than last year – the biggest fall in living standards since records began.
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Shredding it before an early GE and let Labour pick up the pieces?
At best middle class families queuing up at foodbanks, at worse food riots in 2023 if not sooner.
Did anyone actually expect this Government to help us?
He’s gambling on being able to cut some taxes before the next election to win some popularity. Sadly it’ll probably be enough for some people to forget these last few years. He’s had the brass neck to call himself a tax cutting chancellor and the tories to call them selves the party of low taxes throughout this whole thing and they never get any real pushback. Occasionally someone will call them on it but they just resort to the list of massaged tory “achievements” until a new question comes up.
The poorer people are regardless of disability or jobs available the more they have to work . Making welfare impossible even if you need it. The Tory Way. We are in the times of the endgame. Back to the workhouse us peons go.
He worked for Goldman Sachs and his wife’s family are millionaires / billionaires. Of course he doesn’t give two shits and a fuck about us plebs.
The headache is wholesale commodities have inflated in price. Any government that says they can fix this is either mortgaging tomorrow’s kids with lies of future ease or just plain lying to their electorate.
It’s exactly what all the Tory voters wanted.
It’s undeniably what they voted for.
Things just can’t keep getting worse, and worse, and worse for people – there will be a breaking point eventually, the government can’t just bury it’s head in the sand.
It feels like only a matter of time before a general strike, or riots, or poverty-related domestic terrorism.
I hope there’s change before things get nasty.
The way he announced the 5p fuel cut with such arrogant pride like it was an achievement despite fuel increasing by 10p in the last week anyway was something to see. Of course you get people asked when filling up what they think and some go ‘every little helps’.
It is just one thing after another that compounds the loss we never got Corbyn, just as you try to get over it. You constantly think how different it might be. I have to think; the worse it gets, the more chance of something more fundamental happening. But that means more suffer and nothing will happen anyway.
People bring up that Sunak worked in finance, he is part of the elite, but they also think he seems nice, aside from his voting record and what he’s doing now. Can I imagine him stabbing a colleague in the back, scheming, bullying those lower than him, and all the other things typical tories do…not really. Yet it doesn’t matter when it comes to decisions about who he serves and protects. He can’t just detach himself from that, however nice he is. It sounds like I’m defending him, I’m not, tories aren’t nice. They’re tories.
This guy is so out of touch it’s unreal. He was patting himself on the back the whole speech.
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The Tories have spent almost a decade creating this problem. Why would he ruin it now it’s finally coming to fruition!?
The way they’ve tried to pass off this 5p a litre saving as the biggest cut in history as if it’s some sort of game changer is embarrassing.
Surely, even with all the positive spin in the world, people can’t be that stupid, surely?! He must know himself how ridiculous a 5p cut looks, even ignoring the fact it still leaves them 2p a litre better off than this time last year, just by considering the fact prices have already gone up 30-40p a litre in the last 6 weeks.
Anyone pedalling a 5p a litre duty cut as a positive step at this stage is not to be taken seriously.
I have been living in England for over 15 years now. For the first time since I moved here I am seriously thinking about leaving the country.
Fuck poor people. It’s your fault for not being born rich.
He will save £3 on the average tank of fuel. Meanwhile
* The global environmental collapse accelerates
* The insane over-reliance on private cars continues
* The loss in tax earnings will be an excuse to cut services elsewhere
These lot have killed this country. Death by a thousand cuts.
They are gutting this country and only a small percentage of people see it happening, while others sleepwalk into poverty. Frustration isn’t even the word anymore.
Hardly noteworthy anymore. We’ve been experiencing “the biggest fall in living standards since records began” consistently for the past 12 years in a row. I’m not joking.
I get that the government could do more but surely companies should be increasing salaries to help employers deal with cost of living increases even if only for six months or so? I know this will add to inflation but not enough to offset the benefit.
I agree its shit. If people want to live in a green uk we have to pay more for energy. Synthetic fuels are around 3 times the price of fossil fuels. Hydrogen uses alot of electricity to create. Nuclear is expensive. Battery vehicles need charged. Yes wind and solar are great but we need hydrogen for heavy vehicles and/or synthetic fuels for combustion engines and to heat our homes. To make these feasible we will need to pay more. By having less disposable income we will buy less shit also making the environment better. Shame some of us might freeze to death or die from hunger.
Lives on £500 million fortune yet can’t be bothered to help others.
What a waste of a chancellor we have. He’s even worse than Osbourne and Osbourne never gave a damn about the working or middle classes.
Rishi Sunak wage snatcher, pied piper of the payroll…
I think this is an important statement. The BBC said this is the worst year since 1951, which is misleading. It is the worst year ever, as far as we know. (Although possibly the plague also hit living standards pretty hard.)
He’s saving the tax cuts for just before the next election when it will tangibly result in a better performance at the polls. I’m not saying that’s ethically right mind.
Only thing the north is having levelled up is our fucking taxes
At the end of the day the Conservative Conservative government does not give a shit about the people who are on low-income who are struggling to feed the family all they want to do is keep their fat friends Russian friends of the speak sweet but not taxing the rich but keep continue cutting money off the poor sorry my opinion the government and the Chancellor of the Exchequer can go and piss off
From eat out to help out to Starve a kid, save a quid. This blows.
Yeah, but don’t worry guys, they’re going to drop income tax by a penny in the pound just before the next election so we’ll forget about the absolute clusterfuck of an economy and vote for them again!