All choices made by Chancellors and politicians are political. Austerity 1 was political as will be austerity 2. We were told in December 2019 there was no money then by March 2020 money appeared for COVID. All decisions made at Westminster are political.
The current Prime Minister took the deliberate decision to not investigate known covid relief funds fraud which totals nearly exactly the same amount that is hoped to be recouped by this new round of high tax austerity.
It would be silly to say that there is not money to be cut from government spending, however that should come from consultancy fees, negotiating contracts properly and not pursuing vanity projects. The government wastes so much money on projects that overrun, go massively over budget and do nothing to improve services; that is without mentioning the millions wasted on the likes of the Big Four consultancy firms. That is where the necessity is, not cutting the vital funding needed to keep services going in the first place.
Austerity is an ideological policy. We know it doesn’t work. It didn’t work when Japan tried it in the 90s and it didn’t work in the UK in the 10s. It doesn’t work, it will never work. This is being done as a sop to the financial markets. These markets have shown that they are capable of toppling the government if they don’t get what they want. And they they want unlimited profits at any cost to working people.
Austerity politics are purely to the benefit of the rich, they’re never necessary because they never actually fix an economy.
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All choices made by Chancellors and politicians are political. Austerity 1 was political as will be austerity 2. We were told in December 2019 there was no money then by March 2020 money appeared for COVID. All decisions made at Westminster are political.
The current Prime Minister took the deliberate decision to not investigate known covid relief funds fraud which totals nearly exactly the same amount that is hoped to be recouped by this new round of high tax austerity.
It would be silly to say that there is not money to be cut from government spending, however that should come from consultancy fees, negotiating contracts properly and not pursuing vanity projects. The government wastes so much money on projects that overrun, go massively over budget and do nothing to improve services; that is without mentioning the millions wasted on the likes of the Big Four consultancy firms. That is where the necessity is, not cutting the vital funding needed to keep services going in the first place.
Austerity is an ideological policy. We know it doesn’t work. It didn’t work when Japan tried it in the 90s and it didn’t work in the UK in the 10s. It doesn’t work, it will never work. This is being done as a sop to the financial markets. These markets have shown that they are capable of toppling the government if they don’t get what they want. And they they want unlimited profits at any cost to working people.
Austerity politics are purely to the benefit of the rich, they’re never necessary because they never actually fix an economy.