What Rachel Reeves does next? Surprised no thread on this yet. It's all over Twitter

The main issue is that Labour have shown themselves to be inherently dishonest. Numerous pledges they made during their time in opposition have been dropped immediately.

There is a clip from 12 months ago where Starmer is talking about how disgraceful it is that the Conservatives have even considered cutting the winter fuel allowance. Fast forward to the election and within a month Labour has withdrawn it from millions of pensioners.

The wider economic situation post Covid has been in the public domain for ages. If Reeves and Labour claim they didn’t know they are either liars or grossly incompetent. Maybe they should confirm which it is.

Starmer is a like a rabbit in the headlights. I’m pretty sure he has imposter syndrome. It’s easy to sit on the sidelines being critical, it’s a very different matter when you become accountable.

Seeing him in NI this week calling all rioters there racist just shows how out of his depth he is. I’m sure pretty much everyone there felt offended by that.

The government appear to be way out of their depth and we’ll all have to pay the price for their incompetence.

Same old Labour, in the thrall of the unions, promoting high tax and clueless about how to create growth.

For the first time in my life I feel the government is my enemy which is sad.

The country’s debt DOUBLED under the tories BEFORE COVID. It’s now £2.7 trillion

Anyone with a brain before the election knew there was pain to come, but none of the political parties would be honest about it. Particularly reform/greens, but they can lie because they know there’s no chance of them winning.

So I’m not too worried that Rachel Reeves is doing unpopular things. I feel like the adults are back in the room, decent people.

You are right. The owners brought in a new editor who was very remain….but the readers ( and a lot of other people) did not do as they were told.

Would it have mattered?

the cause is the Tories badly managing the economy and cutting NI without any means to pay for it.....

Budget hole??How Labour missed this before being elected? The OBR is there for a reason.

Yep it was absolutely a vote winner..

They were rioting with joy..

lol..

That’s not the case. There are things which can be accounted for in a different way and costs which have overrun. But that’s entirely usual

You're the right person to give your views on this decision. Its very refreshing to read someone affected by a change (SH, Vat on PS, WFP) being so magnanimous and seeing the bigger picture.

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Not much longer is the answer.

Then it gets proper real.

So benefitting those economically inactive again?

I’m not arguing to reduce the amount a single person gets but surely a household with two adults is less likely to need as much care because the other adult takes on a lot of the caring?

Yup I only wrote it because sick of hearing people say get rid of single person ct not realising this:

In a house with 2 adults where it is £100pm they each pay £50pcm

In a house of one person of same ct rate it's £75

Both houses the adults get old and need adult social care funded by the council which is paid for via council tax. Let's for argument sake say it costs a council £200pcm per person

House with two adults both needing social care costs £400

House with one person costs £200

The house with 2 adults have individually paid less council tax then single person but receive the same amount in adult social care.

So yet again the single person is subsiding other people. So quite frankly this why the reaction when someone says grt rid of the discount is always fuck off we subsidise every group of people and this is all we bloody get.

DM and its Readers were Brexit and that's what they said to remainers: you lost, get over it

not every reader…but i don’t doubt its the majority

Yay, let's target pensioners a little bit more. And women. As women live longer than men there are more female pensioners living alone than male ones

all the news pundits, say that the big hole has been caused by the recent massive overspend on public sector workers.

That's because they hate all public sector workers and think we should work for free just for the love of the job.

I’ve just had a look at my borough LHA . For a 3 bed house the maximum rate that can be paid to a private landlord and covered fully by UC housing element is £1000 more than the average rent for a 3 bed council house that is fully covered . That’s a huge difference . That gap needs closing - that’s where money will be saved !

We could raise money by equalising earned vs unearned tax rates and by CT revaluations on the top 3 most expensive bands.

Incredible people, inc Reeves, want to hit the least well off instead.

However, Labour are weak and wont do either.

Fastest growing from a very low base! our growth is also predicted fall faster then most G7 later in the economic cycle.

UK PLc is in a very bad place, with debt set to rise, even under Hunts forecasts.

Bottom line is Hunt cut 4% off NI and that now has to be paid for, some £12 billion, Hunt also didn't set aside any extra money for the pay review body pay rises, not one penny.

He shafted the UK for political gain.

He should be in jail for those 2 things alone, instead he'll probably get a Knighthood.

Like poll tax? Sure someone tried that once...

I agree

I think every working adult in a household should pay council tax.

for example a 2% reduction in LHA and a 2% reduction in the single person council tax discount would make actual savings. Increasing social housing rent will just be shifting money from one department within the government to another ?

Also maybe they should redirect the ULEZ payments somewhere (what do they get spent on currently? Some drivers are paying £12.50 a day)

Great as if single people don’t cop it enough already