UK government debt sales set to fall for first time in four years

https://www.ft.com/content/d082b3ab-99d2-4726-8da8-ec9b843a7373

Posted by Gold_Motor_6985

15 Comments

  1. Zealousideal_Rub6758 on

    15 years of austerity can hardly be turned around in one term of government, let alone a year or two.. there’s still some way to go before we genuinely stabilise. 

  2. Yet another terrible blow, she’ll never recover from this.

    But now let’s go to Barry, 62, from twitter, who says “Rachel from accounts hasn’t stopped them boats though has she”

    There you have it folks. She’s a failure on all counts.

  3. Yeah, but the Daily Mail told me Labour is terrible, so I’ll just go on believing that…

  4. Glad to see the UK is heading in the right direction with its debt – hitting a surplus is a big achievement.

    I was reading about the US pile of debt and it’s eye-watering how much it’s growing month-by-month. Of course it’s the US so “too big to fail” and all that.

  5. Successful-Cut-5772 on

    It’s a small step in the right direction, but you’re absolutely right that it’ll take a lot more than this to undo the damage of the last decade and a half. The real test will be if this trend can hold and translate into actual improvements for public services.

  6. ExoneratedPhoenix on

    Negative economic result

    “Well Labour can’t fix it in 1-2 years, that would be silly, policies take years to take effect”

    Positive economic result

    “Well this is entirely Labour’s doing, it’s all down to their policies”

    This is without also including the fact that Labour are pretty much continuing the “left a bit, right a bit” Tory tactics anyway, LOL.

    Disclaimer: I hate Lab/Con equal amounts, the same logic can be used the other way round in 2010 when Conservatives spent years blaming Labour for negative results and claiming it was all them for positive results.

    If you GENUINELY think most policies take years and a lag effect is real, then the reality is most of the results – bad and good, have little to do with policy yet.

  7. Twisted_Biscuits on

    I’m sure the reform lot will find something to bitch about, but I’m glad to see all this good news lately.

  8. I wish I could vote for them, I really do. Especially after being a paid member of the party until I resigned it recently.

    But for every great thing they’re doing on the economy, they are doing some overtly disgusting thing with our privacy and surveillance. I can simply not vote for the people who introduced the OSA, tried to force through ID cards again, and propped up the internet with age gating that is managed by American technofascists.

    There’s no party that represents me, which is concerning.

    Tories – lol no.

    Reform – fascists, no.

    Greens – too much religious fundamentalism, not enough “Green”

    Labour – too authoritarian

    Dems – no idea what they actually stand for in reality, the one time they got any sniff of power they folded all their ideals and have the student loans bullshit as a result. A protest party without a party to protest any more.

    No one represents or is in touch with the every day working/middle class Brit. Reform are doing a good job of pretending to be in touch with the working class brits, but obviously its all lies. So who do I vote for? A fringe party? An independent? No matter what direction we go, I’m fucked.