Thread 8 Starmer : Cat fur on new clothes

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Unfortunately next to no comms, a No 10 that seems to be leaking like a sieve, a hiatus before the budget and Frockgate has created the perfect storm for them to write copiously about trivia. The government really does need to get a handle on this and soon.

I think they've over frothed it.

Meanwhile -

🚨 NEW: The previous government spent £114,000,000 on cancelled Covid contracts

86% of this was given to firms with links to senior Tories

I've had the operation - a partial cystectomy if anyone's interested. No food now till tomorrow. That means just a Weetabix, a sandwich and some chocolate in 3 days. I can't help but think this is for my own good, to help be prepared for and heal from the surgery. And crucially it's not forever. For so many people it's not a choice or not a real one anyway. I've been out of it - has anyone heard whether the Labour Government mentioned foodbanks?

Are we supposed to just not notice this?? (By "this" I mean the increasing influence of Marshall on our media, plus his fingers in Reform, Tory and American Christian Right pies)

Get well soon willow

Hope you feel ok @Willowkins - or at least, as well as can be expected

I got my 20 yo to listen to Lammy. He was really angry. Said it was hypocritical given the damage the UK had done to the world and while the government are refusing to call out Israel it looks like its playing to the gallery and he wants them to say that about other dictatorships (he mentioned some more).

Shocked me right out of my bubble because I could see his point. DS is a sensitive soul and very worried we are about to go into WW3

That sounds tough, willow. Hope you recover quickly. 💐

Knives are properly out for Labour but this looks like its going too far for me. It seems beyond the pale to criticise someone for declaring a loan made by a friend to support them through a family members death .

Wishing you a speedy recovery willow

"Are we supposed to just not notice this?? (By "this" I mean the increasing influence of Marshall on our media, plus his fingers in Reform, Tory and American Christian Right pies)"

And he'll finalise his Telegraph bid at the end of the week.

We definitely should be tracking this stuff.

FT have an interesting article - Starmer saying he wants government spending to act as a catalyst to private investment and that the fiscal rules should aid capital spending. Setting up Reeve to announce revised fiscal rules. The OECD has said that the UK should re-write its short termist fiscal rules to allow higher public investment to drive growth.
The article is embedded in a tweet by Mujtaba Rahman.

Link to tweet

x.com/mij_europe/status/1839028064644378652?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

I heard something on one of the political podcasts last week about revising the fiscal rules to allow investment. Can’t remember which one now.

There was a lot of talk about borrowing to invest on Newsnight last night. I suspect this will be ray of sunshine in the budget. I bloody hope so anyway.

TRiP best I heard it too. It was interesting and I think they might go for it.

Both my adult DC now live back at home as they are not in high-enough paying jobs to be able to afford either rent or mortgage.

Wishing you a speedy recovery @Willowkins

Thanks @CassieMaddox, I suspected it might be as I’ve been avoiding most of the others the last week or two.

I can’t see either of my DC buying houses either. Both rent and DD and her partner pay £1100 pcm in rent. Both are in reasonable jobs (ambulance technician and business analyst) but just can’t afford to buy where they need to live for work.

This will happen. Otherwise austerity beckons. Reeves will change those rules.

We're fortunate to be in Glasgow - and that ds was eventually sensible enough to adjust his expectations from a tenement flat in a sought after familiar area to an ex-council house flat just outwith but still walkable the area he wanted. He wanted/needed a 2 bed flat as his girlfriend was going to move in with him (but sensibly is not on the mortgage) but he works from home so needed a 2nd bedroom to be a home office. It was "only" £116k - and we "only" helped him with £8k of that (or rather, his grandfather was supposed to help with half of that but most inconsiderately died the day after he rang his financial advisor to begin the process of getting the money out ) (to be fair on ds, he did pay us back the "extra" £4k). I think his mortgage is about £90k - whatever the maximum that Halifax said he could get given his salary and outgoings.

But if you live in the South East or any more expensive area, people don't have a snowball's chance in hell

Hope you feel better soon @Willowkins

Thanks all. We're trying a few different pain meds but really I'm just glad I woke up after the surgery.

Get well soon willow. Your diet sounds similar to mine! Yum.

Good luck with recovery 🌻