Cabinet told public spending cuts must be ‘ruthless’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/12/cabinet-told-public-spending-cuts-must-be-ruthless/
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Cabinet told public spending cuts must be ‘ruthless’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/12/cabinet-told-public-spending-cuts-must-be-ruthless/
Posted by JayR_97
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Labour 2010-2024: austerity doomed us all! Lousy Tories!
Labour 2025: austerity is the way to go! Lousy Tories should have started this years ago!
Not what I fucking voted for – another shambolic shit-show.
You’re witnessing in real time 15 years of Labour naivety doing a screeching u-turn into the hard cold brick wall of fiscal reality. You cannot tax and spend your way to prosperity
You would of thought the migrant hotels and security costing the UK tax payer anually around 6 billion would be the first to go, but oh no…
Cut what? We’re all overworked, understaffed and pushing hours upon hours of unpaid overtime already. We’re running out of things to chop.
Cut investment and tax the poor even more!
That will surely grow the economy. I can’t with these people
“Ok then, what **else** would you like us to stop doing?” – The Public Sector.
They’re cutting public spending?
Then what were all the tax rises for?
The UK needs a plan. All we seem to do is tinker around the edges, and it gets us nowhere – it just slows the decline.
Liz Truss was an idiot, but one thing she was right about is that the country needs to fully redefine itself and what it wants to be.
That might require unpopular decisions, but the current model clearly doesn’t work and we need an actual plan people can get behind – either happily or begrudgingly.
Sadly, I don’t think any of our current leadership have the actual leadership skills to enact anything of the sort. But I live in hope they prove me wrong.
If there was a clear vision for something I think people would be more willing to grin and bear the current shitshow.
One thing does have to be noticed of all these spending cuts is that they never seem to affect those that implement them for whilst we’re all struggling with high costs of living and austerity piled upon top, we never see any of the government suffering what we do
The UK is having a slow moving train crash due to demographic collapse (aging population and falling births), nothing mainstream politicians will/can do will halt it.
The actual solutions are radical, so things will have to get a lot worse before they are palatable. What is more likely is the far right will gain more support and eventually power, they will then have a decade or so of not solving the issues. Then we may get to actual solutions
I swear to fuck we’ve had budget cuts on everything for 20 years now. They must piss so much money away on nothing.
Brilliant.
Honestly what’s the point in even voting for when they’re all the same?
Just vote in anyone, it makes no difference. The country will continue its slow descent into shit no matter who is at the helm.
Might as well vote in that silly twat Farage for a laugh to see what he’ll do when put on the spot instead of jeering from the stands. Make a game of it.
Biggest rocket ship you could attach to the economy is joining a large trading body, maybe a political partner. Something with neighbouring countries. Just an idea
things could get quite nasty in the coming years, there doesn’t look like a dawn at the end of this dark and the general public are already noticeably more angry and getting angrier with each passing year
aging population who are getting spoonfed with all the financial help such as triple locked pensions, cant build anything, cant invest, the whole economy is financial services and just eat drivers, food and drink prices continue to rise while wages go no where, public services falling apart and close to just not functioning, brexit taking it’s toll year after year
has a nation fallen from grace this strongly before
But don’t worry, we’ve still got billions for overseas climate aid, carbon bollocks and migrant hotels. The essentials.
Sooo austerity 2.0?
This is the default state of the UK now. For a generation, in fact. It’s never going to get better is it?
Why don’t we make Britain great again by returning to the income and corporation tax rates of the 60s and 70s? We’ve been trying the “let’s just go without” method for close to twenty years now. It’s not working.
Oh, good; I was afraid for a second there that life might actually get a bit better temporarily.
Tax rises AND cuts to public services. What a time to be alive. Just when you think things are already fucked.
Starting to feel like we are not exactly getting what we voted for and were promised in the General Election..
What flavour of austerity would you like? Red or Blue.
I suppose the only difference is at least this lot aren’t handing an [absolute shit tonne](https://assets.nationbuilder.com/b4b/pages/3036/attachments/original/1717161531/May_2024_-_Scandalous_spending_tracker_Breakdown.pdf?1717161531)** worth of contracts to their mates with the money they’ve saved. Not yet anyway.
** I got as far as 3bn before I gave up adding it up!
There is a countable deficit of £BB because of Br**it but nobody mentions it and we skirt around the issue.
The moribund UK economy is largely due to the ongoing effects of Brexit. But for some reason it’s political suicide to openly admit that.
This sucks. I was a fan of the previous budget goals. It actually aimed to fix neglected public services. Nhs reform is a big ask, but I was hopeful for some meaningful changes.
Austerity doesn’t work. We’ve seen this time and time again.
The government chose to raise taxes for business this budget as more tax raises for working people is unpalatable. We can not go on neglecting our public services as it will cost more and more to fix as we focus on short-term gains.
If they change tact and raise taxes on working people instead, all this sends is the message that businesses are more important than working people.
If working people don’t like tax raises, it’s tough, suck it up. If businesses don’t like it, let’s see who can bend the knee the fastest.
the reason I didn’t vote for labour, because these frauds were all just tory lite. public sector in every level is bad, there is nothing more to cut. genuinely these people are running the country into the ground and when election time comes, just find another group to blame.
how about instead of the working and middle class getting another 5 years of “ruthless” cuts, how about you “ruthlessly” tax the fucking rich