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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
At last, a sane voice. You have to admire the left for organising such a United front against these measures. These measures are exactly what is needed.
All this crap about everyone struggling to pay their bills, flocking to Aldi, etc. Well, I’m a pensioner myself, I’ve not changed my habits and my supermarket bills end up much the same as normal months. Although my fuel bill went up in April, I’ve now had a monthly £66 government rebate on my bill, not to mention the subsidy already paid out by the government.
Granted, the very poorest can’t pay more as they have nothing to pay with, but they have been helped at every turn by this Conservative government, which the left wantonly ignore to make it look as though they have been abandoned.
The fiscal measures are needed to turn the economy around. The only legitimate criticism that exists is that the detailed plan to pay off the debt has not been made available and the OBR has not been allowed to review it. Well, given that the people of this country needed their subsidy now, there was no time to lose in getting it out there. The government has not finalised the detailed plan to pay off the debt, although they know how to achieve it, and that plan will be forthcoming when it is complete in November. The OBR can then study it to its heart’s content.
The markets have reacted badly owing to the lack of detail, but they will get over it and things will return to normal.
Liz Truss has less than two years to prove what she’s made of and that her radical plans are robust. She is a woman on a mission, and she ain’t gonna hang around.
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Finally a prediction you might get right
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Except that there will be spending cuts, that has already been made clear. The Civil Service is to be cut down, saving salaries and building costs. Those quangos still need extinguishing where they are not providing essential services as well.
It has been made clear also the the planning rules are to be streamlined to assist companies to build things faster. The Brexit benefits have not yet been tapped into and we will have a bonfire of the EU regulations that have been holding us back as well.
The increased growth from a whole raft of measures including those already outlined in brief will help us pay off the debt.
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Aside from the fact leaving the EU has created a whole raft of legislation, bureaucracy and paperwork I think you'll find we like a lot of the EU regulations for workers, most of us don't want to be sacked if we get ill or refuse to do 60 hours a week plus, we like our holiday entitlement and no matter what the government says we don't want to adopt china's working practices, where suicide is often more preferable than returning to work after lunch, of course dizzy lizzy doesn't understand this coz she's a humanoid and how many more years do they want to
extinguish the quangos, call me dave was promising that a decade back
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Originally Posted by ianch99
Because he is a hypocrite; he has in the past sold the UK out when pretending he is all about Brexit Britain and now he is wheeled out to gaslight us, trying to convince us the sky is green, really?
He is yesterday's politician, desperately trying to be relevant in today's world and failing miserably. His time is over, he just needs to accept this and move back into obscurity.
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John Deadwood
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Originally Posted by jfman
Rubbish Old Boy, worse than your usual. There’s one side to this debate and one only. Truss is free wheeling the economy into chaos and you think it’s alright because some work experience kid wrote a policy paper for a think tank once.
If anyone is going to break established groupthink of the macroeconomic world I can absolutely assure you it will not be Liz Truss
By hysterical reaction I assume you mean those funds worth billions betting against the UK to the extent we have to print money to bet against them? Surely you of all people should admire their entrepreneurial spirit. |
Those funds Krazy Kwarteng had lunch with before his made his statement, it's so sleazy no wonder he couldn't stop himself laughing at a certain persons funeral