Austerity Part Deux....?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63287060
...looks like the left have got their way.

[youngmafbog]

Well the money has to come from somewhere.

They all rejected the attempt to create growth, if you go the opposite way then its austerity.

ce la Vie.

[10ClarionSt]

I refer hon. members to my reply in a previous OP from TTT on Mon Oct 17th, here.
//I'm bemused by all of this. The non-budget of Kwarting would have done nothing for me and neither will the u-turn budget of Hunt. I am just a poor senior citizen, like many others, who in the eyes of politicians, will just be a burden on the state, and won't be around for long anyway. Us baby boomers have been called the lucky generation. Some luck!//

And I commend it to the house!

[ToraToraTora]

10cs: "The non-budget of Kwarting would have done nothing for me" - so you don't use gas or electricity 10cs? Your lefty mates have got their own way so now come April bills are un capped.

[10ClarionSt]

No, I don't think it would, TTT. As I said in a previous reply, it was only putting the clock back on a ticking time bomb. The Hunt u-turn has only brought that clock forward. It was never going away.

[youngmafbog]

And potentially the triple lock goes.

And beer goes up.

[ToraToraTora]

10cs: "No, I don't think it would, TTT. As I said in a previous reply, it was only putting the clock back on a ticking time bomb. The Hunt u-turn has only brought that clock forward. It was never going away" - the cap was there for 2 years, time to sort the supply problems caused by the Ukraine war. That's the main reason prices are going sky high.

[10ClarionSt]

I'm worried. I really am. I genuinely feel that energy companies and other businesses don't care one jot for anyone except their shareholders. If it gets to the stage where I am unable to pay my monthly bills, then I will lose some services and be placed on a pre-payment meter. Does anyone care about that situation? It won't just be me. It will be lots of others. But us old farts won't be around for long anyway, will we?

[ToraToraTora]

09:52, the government had in place 2 years of support, your opposition mates went off the deep end and got it all undone, I'd be looking at them me old china. Labour threw the very people they claim to represent under the bus to score some political points.

[jno]

austerity part un was under the Tories. So is austerity part deux.

Loving the attempts to blame Labour ... Biden ... City traders ... vegans ... climate protesters ... the BBC ... Meghan Markle ... MSM ... anyone but the party who just happen to be in power and the nincompoop voters who put them there. The notion of taking responsibility for your own actions doesn't seem popular around these parts.

[douglas9401]

I wonder if any of out olive-skinned 'friends' have been approached with an offer they can't refuse vis-a-vis knocking a few quid off and opening the taps a tad.

There must be some pressure that can be brought to bear, even on blameless Arabs.

[THECORBYLOON]

Did Sunak not criticize Truss' plans during the leadership debates?

Were there no Tory MPs who had doubts about the Budget?

Why did they not release the OBR's opinion on the the plan?

Did the opposition parties cause the stock market reactions?

[Gromit]

It is truly remarkable that Conservative supporters are unable to accept any responsibility for what the Government has done. It is always someone else's fault, never their own. An inexperienced new Prime Minister and Chancellor manage to spook the markets, and suddenly AB reckons it is all my fault.

[Atheist]

What's the left got to do with the tory government's problem? Why this obsession with blaming others for the tory party's ineptitude?

[Hopkirk]

It wasn't the opposition what done it TTT

[Hopkirk]

I far prefer Mr Hunt's plan to target future energy cost assistance to those who need it. The previous plan did little to discourage energy use, and subsidised heating of large houses and private pools.

[tomus42]

I didn't realise the opposition were so powerful that they could have caused all these problems.

[naomi24]

//It is truly remarkable that Conservative supporters are unable to accept any responsibility for what the Government has done.//

I don't accept responsibility because I'm not the government but there's no doubt the government did it. No one else booted Boris out. Fools!

[Untitled]

the tories have been doing austerity for years and it has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths… the only people who bear responsibility for this are the tories and to an extent the lib dems

[naomi24]

Everything has to be paid for. That’s a simple fact of life.