To find Rachel Reeves an irritating pain in the neck

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Just been listening to this Spring Statement. What a load of total waffle. About how great things are going to be. Absolute and utter nonsense.

Indigo is correct. I only have O Level Maths (and not a good grade) and I can see that taxing a smaller and smaller group of peopl just doesnt work.

Make Stamp Duty double what it is and no one moves,they will wait unitl next year or the year after. Time and time again its been proved that if you reduce say SD it will kick start the housing market or even give inventives to older people often in houses that can often be too much for them to downsize.

No, there are a group of people who for whatever reason, poor choices in men resulting in children that the men dont support, messing about in education, little work ethic, jumping on the band wagon of 'poor mental health' and they all want someone else to pay for their choices. As long as it isnt them that's fine. Ignore their cash in hand jobs, lets go after the multi millionairs. Wait - they have all left....

1 in 8 of our young people not in education or working. That is truly disgraceful.

I admired him. Steady hand. Intelligently steered us through the banking crisis, and his restructuring of bank vs treasury has been good in my view.

He wasn’t perfect, but I think he is unusual in politics, in that he is a man of integrity.

I like Rishi. I think he suffered from having to follow Boris and Liz Truss.

Same. But I think Boris was just a bit more pro green compared to Rishi which I why I preferred Rishi as chancellor.

September 2023
The UK economy made a faster recovery from the Covid pandemic than previously estimated, according to revisions to official figures revealing a stronger performance than Germany and France.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/29/uk-economy-makes-stronger-recovery-from-pandemic-than-first-thought-germany-france

The Office for National Statistics has made some pretty dramatic upward revisions for 2020 and 2021...
Put together, it means that at the end of 2021 - rather than being 1.2% smaller than it was going into the pandemic as previously reported - the UK economy was actually 0.6% bigger...
As Simon French, the chief economist and head of research at the investment bank Panmure Gordon was quick to note, the entire UK economic narrative, post-pandemic, has just been revised away. All those headlines about the UK economy not being back at pre-COVID levels, or bottom of the G7, are now obsolete.
https://news.sky.com/story/the-uk-actually-fared-much-better-after-covid-than-first-thought-heres-why-it-matters-12952220

Come on @Clavinova you know the rate was higher because ours was in a worse condition. It hasn’t recovered back to where it was while other economies have.

And there are people eligible for disability benefits who work. You've been told this before.

They should make do with their salary

why should a person of wealth feel unwelcome in UK and punished financially ? Other countries want them & want investment

Why does UK roll out the carpet for penniless and chase the wealthy out?

Baffling

The idea that high PAYE tax payers aren’t paying a “fair” share in the UK is just batshit.

Did away with the 10% tax rate
Miserly rise in the state pension

Great to have a Chancellor who is actually trying to sort out the utter mess left by 14 years of Tory misrule and their 5 prime ministers. Did these incompetents think the problems would just disappear on their own?

Have people forgotten Boris Johnson was a huge backer of Trump getting a second term as President - as was Truss. Heaven help us if they were in power now with such impaired judgement and skewed moral compasses.

Go check your facts. Lies. She is not trying to get more children removed from parents into care.

Also, more children are not abused in care than by their parents either. Good grief so many errors in a short post.

Why? There are additional costs associated with disability and without the extra help some wouldn't be able to access employment.

Indeed, dear old Boris from Eton’s amateur dramatics society, who so wanted to play the part of being prime minister.

I presume we’re allowed to insult him?

How does halving growth help?

No, the country voted Labour, but got another version of the Tories back. Seriously, what’s the difference?!

I’m not fan of the Tories and voted Labour, but your partisan mantra is utterly pathetic. How is she helping to clear the mess?

Was it by taxing business and stifling the economic growth so promised?

Was it by insisting that social care providers were also lumbered with the NI rise meaning they have a real terms cut (which is something even the Tories never did)?

Was it by taking away the winter fuel allowance from those on a basic state pension of less than £12k per year, or taken away lifelines from the disabled, when there were many ways to find similar sums if she had only taxed the wealthy more?

Was it by talking about growth but without actually having a plan to deliver it? For all the talk of planning reform and industrial strategy, we still don’t have anything of substance, let alone any action.

Rachel Reeves has been an utter disaster… arguably worse the every chancellor we had under the Tories, with the possible exception of Kwasi Kwertang. But at least the Tory chancellors had the honesty to call themselves Tories, and not masquerade as Labour.