Liz Truss demands spending cuts in ‘plentiful area’s’ of public services

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  1. She lives in some parallel universe to the rest of us. Not one single public service works as it should currently (notwithstanding the efforts of a committed workforce). DVLA, PASSPORT OFFICE, HMRC to name a few. Third World Country status incoming

  2. Is it me or is she actually doing the opposite of what most people and experts are calling for?

  3. Can someone explain to me without all the “she is a muppet of the rich hur dur”, why is she proposing these ideas? I am not an expert but it looks to me as if things are going downhill quite rapidly at the moment. What is going on? Is this her fault or what?

  4. Counting down till they tell us that the tax cuts can be fully funded simply by eradicating all “woke” and diversity-related initiatives, plus slashing the foreign aid budget.

  5. I could currently be convinced she’s involved in some sort of elaborate Brewster’s Millions scheme where the object is to lose rather than spend money.

  6. I was sad to leave the team I worked with when I was a civil servant.

    I was happy to take the 36% pay bump.

    However I now feel I have more job security in the private sector rather than public.

  7. You know when someone says something so incredibly stupid or inappropriate that you don’t know how to respond and you just sort of give them a blank look?

    That.

  8. “You all have it far too good, more cuts to fund my wild gifts to the very rich. Think how much better we will be when that trickle downs and you can spend that extra cash on stuff we cancelled”

  9. Huh. Guess we’re not getting that payrise on the railways then? Thanks for letting us know Lizzo. I’ll start burning books this winter. Got to do my part after all. Might get a trickle of rich people’s money by the end of this decade!

  10. Honest to God what bloody planet is she on 12 years of selfservatives and “being fiscally responsible” have left the nations public services in what if this was a court I believe the term would be criminal neglect. How about cutting useless people (Jacob rees mogg or however else they scraped out of the toilet this week).

  11. How about you introduce windfall tax and stop giving massive tax reliefs to banks ?? Aahh no sorry you said you’re going to lift a cap for bankers bonuses.

  12. Cannot wait to have our bin bags collected once every month because Liz Truss wants public services cut. Or no street lights to work at night. Or less public transport.

    The Tories have never invested in this country over the past 12 years.

  13. She’s doing exactly what the people (who put her in power) want her to do.

    There are a group of Right Wing players who won the Conservative Civil War in 2019 (removing Theresa May and anyone sensible) and putting their own lads in power Johnson, Gove and Jacob Rees Mogg etc. They’ve done the same with Truss, she is literally a puppet.

  14. Of course she does. We knew this was coming – someone has to pay for all those tax cuts to the rich. Clap for the NHS is all the tories ever do – otherwise they shaft the whole system and everyone working in it. Well I just hope all those voters in red wall constituencies who ‘wanted a change’ ( by voting FOR the incumbent party?) are happy with the changes they’re getting

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  15. I personally believe the Tories know they can’t win so are screwing the economy and public services to harm Labour as well as make money for their backers betting against the UK.

  16. At least Cameron’s austerity was coupled with slightly more tax on the wealthy (not enough imo) but still some – and the economic crisis was created in America and its effects were semi-. Out of his control.

    This entire crisis was created by tax cuts for the richest in society and is again being paid by poorest.

  17. I cannot remember a time when a single public service in this fucking country could be described as ‘plentiful’. Is she smoking crack?

  18. There’s nothing left to cut, they are trying to private the nhs to where we will spent thousands to get life saving treatment.

    Then they will try and cut benefits on the people already struggling due to the failing system.

    This is messed up we are becoming a laughing stock and the government is failing us.

  19. National embarrassment. The economy to which the Tories lay claim to expertise in faces disaster after disaster, the national Bank is in rebellion, the markets are in paroxysms, the pound is in free fall and the plan is to tighten the belt. Tighten it around what?

  20. >The prime minister added: “It’s absolutely right that we always need to get value for taxpayers’ money.

    Except when it comes to government procurement, then you’re better off paying double to buy from a company owned by a tory donor right?

  21. Only ‘plentiful area’ I can think of is in the House of Commons with subsidised food and drink and extravagant expenses budgets. If that’s what she’s cutting I agree.

  22. If there are no more public services left in existence, do we still have to pay taxes? Would we still need a Parliament?

  23. Cause that worked out so well last time….

    Everything is underfunded and we’re on the brink of collapse for numerous reasons, and this one slice short of a loaf thinks it’s a good idea to underfund them some more.

  24. Pretty rich of her to demand this when she was spending like there was no tomorrow on foreign office credit cards.

  25. Here what I think she will cut

    Job centres online only (outsourced to India)
    The 40 hospitals will never see the light of day
    Public libraries gone
    Public swimming pools gone
    Bus passes might go
    The NHS will get cut to shreds
    Council grants will also get cut

  26. The inevitable outcome of someone who hasn’t spent a single moment living in the real world. Totally devoid of empathy and entrenched in the mindset that no-one truly struggles in this country without being at fault for it.

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