Rishi Sunak and the Treasury has more to spend to help with living costs – so why is he refusing to do it? In the current situation, the cost of failing to act is clear: millions will struggle to heat and power their homes,
Rishi Sunak and the Treasury has more to spend to help with living costs – so why is he refusing to do it? In the current situation, the cost of failing to act is clear: millions will struggle to heat and power their homes,
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Because spaffing out money during the pandemic has achieved little beyond massive inflation and kicking the problem down the road.
Because they don’t care whether or live or die, in other ways words a typical Tory
The common sense (usually a Tory approach) would of been everyone at risk and over the age of 55 stay home from work protect yourselves while we protect your work rights. Companies can hire temp where needed. Business and taxes as usual. NO said ALL parties we are shuting down the country. Why? When the science clearly indicated old and sick people are the real at risk group! BECAUSE politicians around the globe had an agenda of which I can only guess was to limit trade on the every growing more powerful Russia and China. Either that or the western leaders are complete idiot’s along with its sheeple. It’s a 50 / 50 for me.
That money is for cuts just prior to election.
Because they need poverty and desperation to exploit workers and drive down wages… duh
When will people realise that we are the carbon. There is a global coordinated effort to siphon your money and decrease your value of life. From traffic lights to potatoes. It’s every product, it’s every service, it’s every company.
The goal is to dry up people’s savings to bring them back to living paycheck to paycheck. It keeps them in line and hungry for their minimum wage job. During this time, as much tax money is wasted as possible to limit public resources. A few wars might do it.
There will be a spending splurge when the elections are called late next year. It is the only time Tories spend cash on anyone else except themselves and their mates.
Summer is coming so most people will be turning their heating down or off. We use less electric for lighting during the summer so coupled with the warmer weather this gives the Tories what, 8 months of grace before people start dying of hypothermia next winter?
Maybe the energy fairy will have visited during that time and will save us all. Maybe we will be importing from Russia as normal by October. Maybe he doesn’t give a fuck because he knows he will be out of a job by then anyway and want so keep his investments safe for a few more months.
Didn’t he tell everyone to spend their savings to help the economy? That’s coming back to bite everyone on the arse.
Money is for the rich only – they can never have enough while normal people are not allowed to have enough
Because people are dumb and will fall for the big cuts and handouts he makes close to the next election, to buy votes.
he is an ex banker, bigger profits equals bigger bonus.
but how else are the tories going to attain the cash to bribe
the electorate ahead of the 2024 election?
That’s easy…. They want to be able to announce a tax cut before the next election and they don’t care if that means we all suffer now.
Still 3 years from the next general election. Not sure why he’s keeping his powder dry, he should be spunking it up the wall just before the local elections surely?
This is really beginning to concern me. I had the 50% rise in my utility bills as expected 1st April. It’s a big hit, but can scrape by with cutting back a lot.
With the impending rise in the autumn, I don’t know how I’ll cope. We’re a family of 3 (me, fiancé and toddler), my fiancé works 2.5 days and I’m full time. She can’t afford to go full time as child care costs will just wipe that out anyway.
Council tax rebate is handy but a very, very short term solution. We’re sensible with money and like I said we are cutting back. But we’re running out of things to cut back on. How is this ever going to be sustainable??
My theory is they’re waiting to see if they take substantial damage in the local elections to see if it’s worth spending the money for positive PR before the next general election.
If everyone is going to keep you in power regardless, you may as well save yourself a few quid and pocket the difference.
Oh, that and they don’t give a shit about the people who will struggle.
We all love a good moan but let’s face it, we’ll just work a little harder and have a little less. It’s what the country is built on
Is there a General Election on the horizon? No? Then fuck the poor until there is and then we’ll throw them a few crumbs
All part of the great reset.
Get people in to debt, and forgive all debt if they agree to give up ownership of any assets.
It’s all in black and white on the WEF site
I gotta plan – print some money dumbass, maybe a stamp duty holiday but whatever the play screw the poor over, it’s their fault. /s
Because there’s a General Election on the horizon, no better time than then to offer up some cake.
Look! … they can’t give people this “imaginary” support because how easy is it to say they’re creating a whole energy and oil company! … they can’t say … ohhh damn 🐍 … we bought the wrong thing! …. write it off!
Simples.
Because they fucked over the country to the point where we have very little room to manoeuvre, our finances like the economy is in the toilet.
“Rishi Sunak and the Treasury has more to spend to help with living costs – so why is he refusing to do it?”
Spend on what?
This is the problem. There isn’t enough to go around. That is why prices are going up. If you hand out more money, then prices will just go up further.
It’s not a matter of money and never is. The pandemic showed us that. It’s a matter of stuff.
The question is who gets to have less gas and oil. The market will ensure the poorest take the loss in gas and oil terms, because that’s how price competition works.
If we don’t want to do that, then we need to determine who is going to get less gas and oil on a rationing basis.
One way we can do it from a British perspective is to restrict imports of other luxury items from somewhere (Russia helps in that sense). That will then ensure that more the value of our exports goes on gas and oil rather than fripperies, and we move the gas and oil shortage elsewhere in the world. Probably somewhere in the global south.
If we want to do it internally, then we should be setting a maximum price for fuel on a per kWh basis for a number of units per month, with the cost shifted to anybody using any more than that.
We have to start thinking about this problem in 2nd world war rationing terms. That’s where we’re at.