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Reply | Excellent news, well done Rachel Reeves
at 17:25 15 Jan 2025
Even for a believe lie yourself, surely you agree that introducing VAT in school fees halfway through an academic year is a spiteful and unnecessary measure? I’m going to hazard a guess that you don’t, as like Labour, you seem to be pretty angry at anyone who has things that you don’t |
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Reply | Excellent news, well done Rachel Reeves
at 17:23 15 Jan 2025
No, I’ve told you what I do. And yes, I believe the entire ideology of this current government is firstly incompetent, and underpinned by a deeply unpleasant attitudes to anyone who aspires to do anything they don’t think they should be doing. I can’t tell you how much I despise them |
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Reply | Excellent news, well done Rachel Reeves
at 17:20 15 Jan 2025
It’s hard to disagree with my view really. We are seeing every day as policy unfolds. I’m far from a natural right wing voter, but I would actually hold my nose and vote Refirm if it meant getting these evil ideologies out of power. |
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Reply | Excellent news, well done Rachel Reeves
at 17:16 15 Jan 2025
I was being facetious, and I’m not a builder. But public sector pay rises made up almost £6bn of the black hole. You shoudnt j sult people in the way you are, it cheapens your already very weak arguments |
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Reply | Excellent news, well done Rachel Reeves
at 17:12 15 Jan 2025
I do not think Starmer and Reeves care about the national good. They are ideologically driven socialists who seem to want to standardise everything and bring everything down a level, rather than encouraging aspiration. This can be seen in attitude to private education, they are certainly not in politics for the betterment of the country. They are absolutely obscene. I have never disliked a hovernment anywhere near as much as I absolutely hate this bunch!!! I think they are evil |
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Reply | Excellent news, well done Rachel Reeves
at 17:06 15 Jan 2025
You could try nationalising hosuebuoding, but public sector productivity is so low that nothing would get built. I think shunt was excellent. He had sound business knowledge, and was bringing the country back to growt. None of this Labour gov has ever run a business. Huntvwas much maligned, but is a very effective and efficient public servant imho |
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Reply | Excellent news, well done Rachel Reeves
at 17:04 15 Jan 2025
£22bn. That was a type - there was a backslash where there should have been a 2. This is a good read - demonstrates that although Tories may not have been able to cover all commitments (although growth and consequently tax take was forecast to rise) Labour have been the biggest offenders in over committing to additional costs. Mainly to train drivers etc! It’s scandalous, and the worst mismanagement of the economy since the 1970s |
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Reply | Excellent news, well done Rachel Reeves
at 17:00 15 Jan 2025
What extra house building? Nobody is building as confidence in the sales market is low due to Reeves’ inflationary budget, which means rates won’t be coming down. 1.5m houses in 5 years! This lot won’t get 500k built in this parliament as they are so fundamentally anti-growth and anti-business. I find it hard to believe anyone thinks the government is doing ok, no matter what they inherited. And opinion polls and approval ratings bear this out |
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Reply | Excellent news, well done Rachel Reeves
at 16:46 15 Jan 2025
I genuinely don’t know anyone who thinks this gov is doing a good job. This is amongst my work colleagues, who would swing more Tory I guess being mainly trades people and builders, and my friends, who generally swing more Labour, mainlyiving in metropolitan areas and working in creative industries, and some small business owners. I think everybody is astonished by just incompetent they are |
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Reply | Excellent news, well done Rachel Reeves
at 16:39 15 Jan 2025
Parochial is not the correct word. You asked me when I was last happy with the economy and I told you my experience.
Reeves cautious!!? She’s taking a wrecking ball to the economy, and this lack of growth and consequent decrease in tax take will hit the low paid the worst of all.
Is it public sector healthcare? I think that’s unfortunately one of the industries where financial cuts need to made and productivity needs to increase. It needs to happen across the entire public sector |
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Reply | Excellent news, well done Rachel Reeves
at 16:33 15 Jan 2025
Hunt was doing a great job getting growth back into the economy. £2/bn black hole a load of nonsense. Labour didn’t almost a third of the supposed black hole in their first month in power in train drivers! |
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Reply | Excellent news, well done Rachel Reeves
at 16:17 15 Jan 2025
Apologies, I didn’t Jean the country generally, I meant my business personally, as you asked me when I was last happy with the economy. Brexit was really bad for my industry, but is very minor in comiarison to the money wasted in Covid and the subsequent inflation. I think you are entirely wrong that only the super rich and right wing think this government are doing a bad job. I am neither, and neither is anyone I know - but almost without exception, everyone I know thinks this government is doing an awful job, especially silly in the economy. Can I ask what industry you work in to have the views you do about how this government is dealing with business and the economy? |
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Reply | Excellent news, well done Rachel Reeves
at 15:55 15 Jan 2025
Imagine… highest growing economy in G7 to lowest growth… and that was with a pretty useless PM and the most incompetent bunch of MPs I’ve seen - until this lot. However, it’s amazing what a steady chancellor with good business knowledge and understand ing can do to get the economy moving. Jeremy Hunt is very sorely missed, that’s for sure. I also don’t think circa half a trillion would’ve been wasted in Covid had he been chancellor at the time |
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Reply | Excellent news, well done Rachel Reeves
at 15:50 15 Jan 2025
Sorry, but I think business and markets have judged her and Labour already, and once confidence is gone in an economy, that’s unfortunately the battle lost. New generals required |
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Reply | Excellent news, well done Rachel Reeves
at 15:49 15 Jan 2025
We were flying right up until Covid tbh, and near zero interest rates boosted this still further. It’s been poor for speculative building since 2021 when inflation kicked in and put prices of materials and harbour up by up to 40pc in some cases. Commercial finance rates doubling didn’t help. It looked like it was really coming back until we got the four, depressing Labour bunch to talk everything down. Their messaging, as well as their policies, have been awful for business, all business. You can see that this pessimism is across multiple sectors just by looking at the U.K. PMI |
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Reply | Excellent news, well done Rachel Reeves
at 15:27 15 Jan 2025
If growth is zero to negative, and inflation is above target, then technically that is stagflation. The rest is degrees. I think we can all agree that Reeves has made all of our lives a lot harder (unless you’re a train driver) and that the next few years will see little to no growth in the economy. However you look at it, Labour does not know what they are doing in the economy, and now markets have lost confidence in them. I suspect an IMF bailout would be the easiest way out if this mess for the government at this point, as IMF would insist on them reversing course and enforce more sweeping cuts on state spending, which is what is required. |
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Reply | Excellent news, well done Rachel Reeves
at 14:21 15 Jan 2025
That’s exactly what I referenced. What is very easy to predict is that growth will be lower and unemployment will be higher than had Reeves not introduced the policies she did in October |
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