General Election 2024: General UK Politics Discussion here

[BigPP]

1 hour ago, Mateo said:

Jeremy Hunt stood his ground and accused Rachel Reeves of behaving dishonest.  The representative for the Institute of Fiscal Studies in the SKY studio supported Jeremy Hunt more than Rachel Reeves.  At best the figure of 22 billion is a huge exaggeration and includes recent high pay increases which are choices made by Rachel Reeves.  

 

The IFS doesn't support Hunt more now.

 

https://ifs.org.uk/articles/ifs-response-rachel-reeves-spending-audit

 

“Rachel Reeves is within her rights to feel somewhat aggrieved. It was always clear and obvious that the spending plans she inherited were incompatible with Labour’s ambitions for public services, and that more cash would be required eventually. But the extent of the in-year funding pressures does genuinely appear to be greater than could be discerned from the outside, which only adds to the scale of the problem.

 

Some of the specifics are indeed shocking, and raise some difficult questions for the last government. If the scale of these overspends and spending pressures was apparent in the spring – and in lots of cases, there’s no reason to suppose otherwise – then it is hard to understand why they weren’t made clear or dealt with in the Spring Budget.  Jeremy Hunt’s £10 billion cut to national insurance looks ever less defensible. On asylum costs, the decision to effectively stop processing claimants, and to budget virtually nothing for the resultant costs of housing them, looks like very poor policy making. The new Chancellor is right to be cross."

[Mister M]

30 minutes ago, BigPP said:

 

The IFS doesn't support Hunt more now.

 

https://ifs.org.uk/articles/ifs-response-rachel-reeves-spending-audit

 

“Rachel Reeves is within her rights to feel somewhat aggrieved. It was always clear and obvious that the spending plans she inherited were incompatible with Labour’s ambitions for public services, and that more cash would be required eventually. But the extent of the in-year funding pressures does genuinely appear to be greater than could be discerned from the outside, which only adds to the scale of the problem.

 

Some of the specifics are indeed shocking, and raise some difficult questions for the last government. If the scale of these overspends and spending pressures was apparent in the spring – and in lots of cases, there’s no reason to suppose otherwise – then it is hard to understand why they weren’t made clear or dealt with in the Spring Budget.  Jeremy Hunt’s £10 billion cut to national insurance looks ever less defensible. On asylum costs, the decision to effectively stop processing claimants, and to budget virtually nothing for the resultant costs of housing them, looks like very poor policy making. The new Chancellor is right to be cross."

 

I hope that the Express, Mail, Telegraph, Sun et. al. read this carefully and explain it clearly to their readers.

[BigPP]

10 minutes ago, Mister M said:

 

I hope that the Express, Mail, Telegraph, Sun et. al. read this carefully and explain it clearly to their readers.

 

One thing is certain, Mister M. They won't.

[hackey lad]

Does anyone believe Labour will build 1.5 million homes in the next 5 years  ? 

[El Cid]

6 minutes ago, hackey lad said:

Does anyone believe Labour will build 1.5 million homes in the next 5 years  ? 

 

Well the share price of Persimmon is 36% higher over the past 12 months, Redrow plc 41% up and Barratt Developments 14% up.

All those reading the news would have bought in some months ago.

[hackey lad]

1 minute ago, El Cid said:

 

Well the share price of Persimmon is 36% higher over the past 12 months, Redrow plc 41% up and Barratt Developments 14% up.

All those reading the news would have bought in some months ago.

Is that a yes or no ?

[hackey lad]

Holy smoke , listening to my music and on comes the video of The Seekers , Georgy Girl . Rachael Reeves is an absolute ringer for Judith Durham . 

[Mister M]

1 hour ago, hackey lad said:

Does anyone believe Labour will build 1.5 million homes in the next 5 years  ? 

I really hope so, and I hope a significant number of them will be social housing

It's what they want to do, clearly, that is what they're going to ignore much of, but most likely not all, local opposition.

The country needs more housing, just not more executive houses.

[despritdan]

2 hours ago, hackey lad said:

Does anyone believe Labour will build 1.5 million homes in the next 5 years  ? 

They'll have to to cope with the huge number of immigrants coming into the country. Once every square inch of this once green and pleasant land is covered with infrastructure, there'll be people with clipboards knocking on every door to find out who has spare bedrooms and those that do will have to surrender them to migrants with the rent being paid by the taxpayer.

[Mister M]

28 minutes ago, despritdan said:

They'll have to to cope with the huge number of immigrants coming into the country. Once every square inch of this once green and pleasant land is covered with infrastructure, there'll be people with clipboards knocking on every door to find out who has spare bedrooms and those that do will have to surrender them to migrants with the rent being paid by the taxpayer.

That sounds like the guff farted out by the Daily Mail to scare their readers into voting Conservative.