Hope Our Rachel didn’t write this:
To deliver on our promises we have to first grip inflation. At the budget I will take direct action to ease the cost of living for all households. On Wednesday I will set out a budget that delivers on this government’s promise of change. A budget that cuts NHS waiting lists, cuts national debt and cuts the cost of living.
I know that people are impatient for the change that we promised and frustrated at the unfairness in our system. I am impatient and frustrated too.
It’s dreck. Seriously awful.
Of course, if Our Rach didn’t write this then that also means she’s too incompetent to hire a decent ghostwriter. And, you know, that is one of the jobs I have done. And I did it better than that. Which is a dmman good test of how bad this is, right? The Chancellor of the Exchequer cannot find a ghostwriter better than Worstall?
She’s therefore not exactly digging through the talent pile then, is she?
What talent pile?
It’s just a pile…
On a side note I see they’re freezing rail fares. That didn’t take long, not only will those who don’t use trains have to pay more towards those who do there’s likes to be even less investment in maintenance and new infrastructure such as trains.
Those of us who used trains in the ‘70s know where this leads.
BiND, those of us who used any government provided service in the 1970’s know where this leads – the service getting ever worse until some government in the future decides to once again privatise all those government services because they won’t have the political will or money to fix the shitshow they will have created.
Those who ignore the lessons of history etc…….
Indeed. The telecoms part of the GPO that became BT wasn’t privatised for ideological reasons, there hadn’t been any investment for years.
As part of one of my courses we visited Bournemouth exchange in the early ’80s just after they’d upgraded to System X. One of the engineers told us that they hadn’t had any spares for the Strowger exchangers for years because they were obsolete and they had been banned from carrying out routine maintenance. The Crossbar exchanges weren’t much better and were full and they couldn’t buy new ones even if they’d been available for lack of funds.
The problem is you have idiots like Murphy telling everyone how great things were in the 1970’s ‘before ‘fatcher’ – when he was a *teenager*.
Taxpayers subsidise the railways with £12 billion a year. So much for being “privatised”.
Yep, which is also why I said “pay more”.
I really don’t think they know what they are doing. Its like meeting a bloke who says he can fly. You assume he’s just a bullsh*tter, he doesn’t actually think he can fly, its all just an act for effect. You certainly don’t expect him to climb up the nearest tall building and jump off to prove the point. I think Labour actually believe their own BS and plan to jump off the building. Or rather push the economy over the cliff. They actually think they can fly.
Rationality is weak and delusions are strong…eg the climate is in crisis, diversity is strength, Russia is not a threat at all, race is a social construct, a man can be a woman, men and women are inter-changeable (except when women have special needs…), islamophobia is a problem, 4 million muslims enrich the UK, socialism is possible, money can be printed or borrowed – endlessly…and so on and on…
Well, they think men can become women with a scrap of paper issued by the government. After that, nothing is too barmy.
Increased taxation, borrowing, money printing, taking more money out of tte economy to throw it down the NHS money pit will increase inflation, increase cost of living, do nothing to make the NHS more efficient.
£2.9 trillion debt, borrowing thus financial year £98 billion, of which £55 billion spent on servicing the growing debt. Solution: tax more, Burris more, spend more = Labour, business as usual.
But nowhere near as terrible as the budget will be.
“cuts national debt”
Seriously? I’d be impressed if she even cut the deficit, but cutting the national debt seems so unlikely it’s not even worth speculating about.
I don’t like trains.
Can we ‘grip’ climate change, instead of “tackling” it?
You are going to pay their bills?
We’re told that the people in charge don’t have to be experts, they just have to be smart enough to hire experts.
What do people do when they can’t even manage that?
. . . and those who can’t teach teachers hire experts.
End up hiring grifters and subsidy farmers.