Liz Truss did not crash the economy

Well, God intervening is the ONLY way you'll ever be able to present evidence that Trickle-Down works.
Because it will take Divine Intervention to retcon the entire economic history of neo-liberal capitalism.

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Did nurse forget your tablets again?

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All the parties are lying.

Because one of the following MUST be true:
1) The Government IS going to raise taxes.
2) The Government IS going to increase borrowing.
3) The Government IS going to cut Public Services that are already at their worst state in living memory.

One of those three MUST be true... ...it is that simple.

So which is it for the Tories?
We know they'll slash Public Services to fund Tax Cuts for their wealthy mates; but is that really what the country wants?

Bottom line is that the NI Cuts are disastrous, a Labour party with a spine would commit to reversing them; tell the public that the reversal of the uncosted unsustainable cuts will be used to protect their State Pensions (as it was being used for).

What the country wants, IMO, is a Government that works toward and strives for the betterment of all - not just a narrow section of the demographic (Tories "triple-lock"), and that starts being honest with is.
There are some very, very tough decisions to be made by this country on both the National and International level over the next decade, and most people have no fucking clue about them because no government wants to talk about them.

If we want to remain independent of the EU we have to massively increase the Defence Budget; how is that going to be paid for?
Or we can accept we can not stand - militarily - alone without that massive spending increase and look to form stronger military ties with our neighbours.

Is the world sufficiently different now when compared to 2016 to consider reconsidering the EU question?
I hope we don't rejoin the EU, but maybe it is something the General Public has a right to have a say about.

Immigration: we've not even begun to scratch the surface of this yet.
The country is already way over-populated - we have no hope of being energy or food self-sufficient with the current population, and we need to be both going forward.
So, do we admit we can't have food or energy security and continue with current levels of Immigration (legal and illegal), or do we start to get really tough on both?
If we get tough on legal immigration we have to accept that labour costs are going to increase as surplus labour becomes rarer and rarer.
Do we continue with the current levels of legal immigration and just accept the massively negative impacts they have on public services, social housing, school places, social cohesion, increased benefits costs?

We've not even begun to have informed, adult discussion on any of these issues yet, because the slime-pit that is Westminster cares more about spin, lies, lining their own and their mates pockets, and doing anything at all to stay in power - rather than knuckling down and doing what they are supposed to be doing, making the whole country safer and more prosperous.

And they've been allowed to turn Westminster into a slime-pit by the tired, intellectually vacuous type of political debate YOU engage in every time.
Not all "lefties" support Hamas.
Not all "lefties" are in receipt of benefits.
Not all "righties" are fascist assholes.

You want a better country?
You need a better class of politicians.

You want that better class of politicians?
We need to start having grown-up discussions about politics.

It is that simple.

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Don't fuck about - go for it. What could possibly go wrong?

Ah that standard lefty dishonest crap about subsistence levels of welfare spongers 

Benefits for spongers aren't a single payment,  they come as a package and one benefit opens the doors for even more ''eligibility'', just like buses

Even with the so called benefits cap in greater London (only marginally less outside GL)as a basic the single parent with a child gets handout income of £25323 p.a. tax free plus if they want they can also earn £793 per month on top without affecting handouts bringing their annual tax free income to £34839 pa

Not bad for doing sweet fanny adams , hardly subsistence  and nearly treble the personal allowance allowed to normal people and lefties like you call spongers ''poor'' and think this is fair , anyone who disagrees is ''mean spirited '' .

( if they can get one of the household with a ''disability'' label like ADHD / ASD /anxiety etc the skies the limit as there's no cap)


If you’re in a couple £486.98 per week  £2,110.25 per month
If you’re a single parent and your children live with you £486.98 per week  £2,110.25 per month
If you’re a single adult £326.29 per week  £1,413.92 per month

gov.uk

So which is it for the Tories?

We know they'll slash Public Services to fund Tax Cuts for their wealthy mates; but is that really what the country wants?

They haven't done that in the past 14 years - why pretend they have ?

“The Conservatives and the coalition have significantly increased taxes at the top,” says Stuart Adam at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). “Since 2010, top incomes have grown less quickly than average and tax policy has been to focus taxes more on those at the top.”



Figures from the IFS show that someone making £200,000 pays at least £10,000 more in taxes than they did in 2009.



Lower earners are still taxed less than in 2010, even after stealth tax rises introduced following the pandemic.

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/06/02/how-high-tax-britain-destroyed-what-it-means-to-be-rich/