Is the Chancellor about to crash the economy?

What a bizarre POV.

I'm left wing and someone calling me a Tory bot wouldn't make me vote for a party with the complete opposite values to me like Reform!

Recovery isn’t decreasing the private sector or stalling growth

Even Labour pledged to do the opposite so they know it’s bad

Labour crashes the economy every time they are in government. They never learnt and they do not care about anything but their ideology. Keir Starmer is much worse than I even thought possible.

"UK in austerity for decades issue plus horrific overspending."

Errrrr.

'Austerity' is used to describe the 'reduction' in public spending. How can you be simultaneously against austerity and overspending?

For the record, there never was any austerity. Spending went up every single year since Labour crashed the economy in 2008/2009.

A bit like during brexit referendum where remain were wasting a lot of time and effort talking about how mobile phone roaming charges whilst abroad may increase if we left the eu. So much time and effort on trivialities! Or successive governments in annual budgets making a big thing of selling off the Tote - barely anyone knew what it was let alone cared.

I too get sick of the tedious bot accusations. I am an NHS worker in my fifties. Always voted Labour. For the first time ever, I am starting to regret it. Not a bot.

It doesn’t matter who’s at the helm, if the ship has a hole, it’s going to sink.

This isn’t a labour issue or a chancellor issue, this is a UK in austerity for decades issue plus horrific overspending.

Politics is crazy. A new leader or chancellor every 12 weeks isn’t going to help. Some recovery plans take decades, not weeks.

I'm surprised that people are surprised, I suppose not many on this site remember the '60s and the destruction they wrought then!

Growth was up in first half of 2024 but stalled since mid year

😂😂😂

I don’t vote for the Labour government, never have, and barely post on X, in fact I have a brand new account and my feed is full of adverts from Labour about bringing down the cost of of concert prices. HOW MUCH CASH is this gimmick costing us tax payers.

It’s almost like satire but these idiots run our government.

FoM for under 25s is what’s been discussed as the deal the EU would like in some press..

Oh I’m thinking about the old female prime minister

Am I thick, I thought Lizz trust was dead? Or maybe I’m thinking about someone else

I assume this is satire.

It is so annoying as we were on the road to recovery pre July

News just in:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/10/billions-disability-welfare-cuts-calm-markets/

Non-paywall link:
https://archive.ph/6q5tQ

Perhaps I might have to eat my words. Do we have a new 'nasty party'?

Dont fear everyone- over on his x/twitter page, Kier announced he is going to cut the cost of going to gigs and events. Golly aren’t we lucky.

How much bullshit can we take? And HOW much money will it cost us to enforce this trivial idea? Labour have truely lost touch with any semblance of the working class. They don’t relate to us and are acting like obnoxious idealistic cunts

The Conservatives are too wet. Labour don't even recognise or acknowledge the problem - in fact, they think more government non-jobs are always the answer. The Lib Dems and Greens are more of the same.

So that leaves Reform who are probably up for giving it a go, but are also a bunch of disorganised amateurs.

I fear things are going to have to get much, much worse before people are ready / crying out for a 'Maggie' to come in and fix things.

I watched the interview also.
Its very interesting regardless of how you feel about her time as PM.

Her description of how Government actually works mirrors what many have been saying for a while now that it really is not fit for purpose.

A reset is needed but it will take a strong set of MP’s to take on the establishment and begin to unpick the layers of bureaucracy and kick the unelected Quangos off the gravy train.

In short, currently it doesn't matter which party are elected as they don't hold the power.

I voted Labour, but there's no point pretending this is going well. Raising NICs for employers made no sense. I could see the thinking behind getting rid of the WFA and changing inheritance rules for farmers, but that made literally no sense. I have no idea how it got approved as policy.

Yanbu. I'd rather she put a penny on income tax too. The economy was starting to do better before she inherited it, public sector needed investment though, so a penny on income tax makes sense.

I'm not a farmer or private school parent, but meddling with small amount of tax that affect only a few seems pointless.

But who?

You do realise a poll might also include the “don’t knows”…Unlike a binary and ultimately binding vote.

Admit it to yourself, most people now realise it was a huge, unbelievably costly mistake. It’s pretty much common knowledge now.

Why would that make it bollocks? There were people who didn’t vote in the referendum and people who didn’t make up their minds until the last minute. Clearly the demographic has changed in the intervening eight years - a lot of leavers have died and young people are now included who were too young to be in 2016. It’s pretty obvious that the number of Brexiteers will reduce every year.