The Chancellor at the CBI when asked why she had not found some other way in the budget than burdening business with big taxes on employing people and taking money off pensioners said she was not hearing alternatives for righting the national accounts. Let us try again. Controlling spending is a better answer than the tax rises. I have pointed out 4 big targets. Bank of England losses. Productivity falls in public sector. Large numbers of people not working. Too many low pay and no pay migrants needing subsidised homes and public services.
Here are some questions about other wasteful or less crucial public spending.
Why spend on sending 450 people to COP 29?
Why offer trebling of U.K. grants to emerging economies for net zero?
Why increase the hotels for illegal migrants?
Why do nothing to get back £20 bn of lost public sector productivity?
Why give away the Chagos islands then pay to lease back?
Why propose £19 bn of carbon capture
How much more will the government devote to HS2?
What will be the additional rail losses from higher wages?
Will investments in National Wealth Fund and Great British Energy cover all the interest charges on the extra borrowing?
November 26, 2024
Good morning.
Interesting questions. It is almost if the Tory’s have never left.
And the above is an is a relevent point. This is because, as the Official Opposition to this government, they have nothing to say on any of these questions. And that is a worry.
November 26, 2024
Why give soft “loan” to people to go to university when circa 75% of these degrees are worthless?
Why spend billions on Net Zero in the UK when it does nothing positive for climate, destroys the economy and does not even save any world CO2 (not that CO2 is an issue)? It just exports it and many jobs with it.
Why block the roads with islands, bus and bike lanes and anti-car traffic lights etc?
Why over regulate everything?
Why make taxes so complex? Tax complexity is a further tax on top of tax.
Why force people to buy EV cars or hear-pumps when they rarely make any sense financially, environmentally or practically?
Why waste police time on non crime hate incidents?
Why increase crimes and illegal immigration by having no real deterrents indeed incentives?
November 26, 2024
The answer to all these questions is because it’s not our money and we’re going to bankrupt Britain during the next 4 years knowing the uniparty will not change anything.
Reform is our only salvation.
November 27, 2024
So the latest victim of net zero is the loss of a thousand jobs at Vauxhall in Luton and 3000 indirectly from the supply chain.
Maybe a couple of hundred will be gained at Ellesmere Port bit nothing like what’s lost.
We are now seeing the direct consequences of the lunacy. Good skilled, well paid jobs lost for no gain.
Uk car manufacturers buying credits of of Chinese companies to offset lack of sales in Britain.
This is a topsy turvey world we live in.
The idiots are certainly incharge of the asylum.
November 26, 2024
So much waste that could so easily be cut.
Here are some very good way to save government money. Rather than putting VAT on school fees (which will raise nothing net) give tax breaks and vouchers towards private school fees say 50% of the cost of state school costs so as more use them and the government saves half their education costs. Do the same for the NHS, stop the mad counter productive war on Non Doms which will raise a negative sum and do huge economic damage to the tax base.
November 26, 2024
Why sell bonds at a loss?
Why send aid ( borrowed money on which we, the taxpayer is paying interest) to contries like China, India and Pakistan ? In fact why send any aid at all?
Why do we continue with Barnett for Scotland, Wales and NI when even Joel Barnett says it has outlived its usefulness and is no longer fit for purpose?
Why are hospitals not MADE to charge foriegners for treatment that are not entitled to free service ?
November 27, 2024
Who is asking these questions in Parliament? As Mark B points out, it’s not the Official Opposition, who get a reasonable crack at asking questions.
It will be interesting to see if Reform, which has less opportunity there, uses outside means (alternative media, etc to keep up the pressure).
November 27, 2024
Why indeed. There is plenty of money to be saved for a Government which wanted to save it.
They don’t want to save it.
They’re implementing a project which requires them to dismantle our existing economy, society and way of life so that a different “vision” can be imposed on a population which they know will resist the changes.
The destruction phase is being turbo-charged by Keir-Ching! and his Student Union Marxists because those controlling the process know that public awareness of the project is growing and so is the resistance, as both the Farmers Protest (here and on the continent) and the General Election petition (2.74 million and rising) demonstrate.