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

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13764547/Rachel-Reeves-mulls-tax-hikes-spending-squeeze-raising-rents-social-housing-Chancellor-sees-Government-borrow-3bn-forecast-month.html

Or am I the only one interested what she is eying next? Any comment on the reasonableness or otherwise of Rachel's next focus?

Do you know that, or do you believe it because the new government tells you?

Very few people pay inheritance tax.

Suggestions she’s coming after the Household Support Fund next. That’ll go down well.

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/free-cash-struggling-families-axe-rachel-reeves-3238613?srsltid=AfmBOorEDtMblmA0a5FkF5BtY3iEJN9WMS212BAkLUjT8biygL8_7q7S

The Bank of England is really in charge. It is still trying to make up for losses over Libor in 2008. It is the Bank that governs the interest rate.
Only when the finance houses decide they have recouped enough to fill their coffers will that change.

Will you do well out of it? Will the junior doctors do well with their 22% when pensioners suffering from hypothermia block more beds and the junior doctors watch them die of cold, as they did before WFA?

Every financial institution is saying the same thing.

I am fully expecting her to start attacking sick and disabled people's benefits in the not too distant future. Let's face it,they've always been an easy target, regardless of which party is in power.

In fact @Freysimo I'm going to come back again and ask you why someone who says they wouldn’t line a litter tray with the DM would be reading the online version which I believe to be even more misogynistic and stupid. I’d rather eat my own head.

More people die from excessive heat than cold. Climate change means that will increase. We haven’t had a proper winter for years.

Isn't that her comment about 10m people not working and we need them to go to work in some capacity...

⬆️ this. The DM is a comic.

£1000 a year? Crashing the motor industry - how is that going to help our economy?

No the guardian and Reuters are not okay either Labour will destroy the country and they are two months in and if you are okay with all that there's a problem with you you don't pay off Júnior doctors when labour has been in the pay of the unions + give the train drivers their own pay rise Whilst perniciously punishing the elderly who aren't on pension credit but nevertheless close to the breadline and remove their winter fuel allowance they disgust me

That's all you've got? they inherited a mess from the tories😩what mess did the Tories inherit? neither shower are worthy to be in government -with any luck reform will teach them a lesson next time around Support is building by the day whether or not that is palatable - tough - most people aren't on mumsnet so how about diversity of opinion ? because there are a lot of reform voters out there

Posting links to the daily mail won't get you anywhere? But those to Reuters and the guardian will ? get over yourself

I always wonder with all the "smash the gangs" soundbites - all someone needs to do is by a dinghy with a motor and charge people to hop in. How are you ever going to stamp out that?

Exactly. How is that even possible? The demand for trafficking is huge, all it takes is someone willing to take the money and find a shoddy boat.

Plus trafficking networks are multi million organisations with marketing and recruitment, take out one leader and the next steps up

The UK thinking it can clean this all up just sounds so unrealistic, and endlessly costly

Countries already do this and still the networks are there

There are already 17 people on average going for each rental property. If people need to claim housing benefit and it doesn't provide enough to pay the rent then they will have no chance of securing a property. Even with the Government trying to make it illegal for landlords to discriminate against people on benefits surely they will be allowed to turn down people that can't afford the rent?

If and when there is enough social housing then sure reduce the Local Housing Allowance but in the meantime you would just be stopping people on benefits from being able to find anywhere to rent.

@Hellodollydaydream are you having a pop at me? I posted links to The Guardian & Reuters bec PP were questioning the credibility of the DM article. The Guardian & Reuters articles I posted have the same content, just a more acceptable source for some. So perhaps it’s you who needs to ‘get over themselves’.

Bet you weren't moaning about the Tories when you were sitting at home drinking your Pimms in your garden furloughed during the COVID years.

Loads of people i know weren’t furloughed during covid….the vast, vast majority of them

You know nothing about me

How rude to assume

1. I dont like Pimms
2. I wasn't furloughed
3. I dont like sitting in the garden

Any other rubbish you want to spout?

and... I fucking hate the Tories with a fucking passion

The raising of social rents is very fair IMHO.

From the guardian:

In 2020, the sector was given a five-year settlement of CPI plus 1%. However, the government later capped any increases at 7%, after the headline rate of inflation hit more than 11% in 2022.
According to the NHF, rents are now 15% lower in real terms than they were in 2015, while the cumulative rent cuts and caps have contributed to councils facing a £2.2bn black hole in housing budgets by 2028

10.2% of the working age population claim some form of health related benefit. In 2019 this was 7.9%. That’s an extra £12bn we have to find this year, which we didn’t have to find in 2019. To put it into perspective, the extra that has to be found since 2019 is an amount that is double the inheritance tax income HMRC took for 2023/24. I think that we can all agree that if Labour didn’t look intently at why this increase has happened, they would be failing in their duties.

The thing is no-one wanted to listen pre-election. Anything remotely anti Labour and you were a Tory shill with all the abuse to go with it. Even if you didn’t like what the Tories had done. The warnings were there. This isn’t 1997. We have an ever increasing state reliant population for various reasons. Her quiet comments about getting people back to work and economic inactivity. All aimed at pensioners and the long term sick. The comments about child DLA increasing by 40% are currently being leaked. Anyone who works in the private sector is notoriously fair game but that’s ok though!

VAT on school fees was the biggest con going. A relatively small fry policy which distracted all the masses under the nonsense of “tax the rich.” No critical thinking. All the while the real intentions were there - people missed the nuances of these because - the rich.

Labour are slaves to the unions and we never end up better off after that. The issue was: the Tories got us into a mess bribing the economically inactive and the pensioners and hugely wasteful spending. These targets were always first in line. People weren’t paying attention as they thought Labour would “sack it to those rich.” Turns out that’s everyone apart from public sector workers. Who knew. The warning signs were all there. It’s why they will be short term.