The Budget...gone A Bit Quiet In Lefty Land.

[ToraToraTora]

Sunak is wiping the floor with Reeves and her attempt at a budget. Oh dear!

[mushroom25]

some of what was said about transport in the budget speech was a little misleading. the chancellor mentioned 3 specific schemes that they would be funding on the Trans-Pennine upgrade; 2 of them (York to Church Fenton and Manchester to Stalybridge) are already complete, and the 3rd (Bradford Forster Square) is almost complete.

the bit about HS2 also wasn't what it appeared. the chancellor announced that funding to dig the tunnels from Old Oak Common to Euston would be found. well the project has pretty much got to do that anyway as it's the most practical way of getting the boring machines out and away. what wasn't spoken of is Euston Station, and I'm willing to bet that won't happen, leaving the existing station blighted by a zombie building site and chronic congestion.

[Clone]

Rosetta. What's your view of the budget speech

 

 

I'll answer that.

A yawnfest, how long did she go on, and on and on?

[Clone]

Here's the best news of the budget

 

https://www.mps-pension.org.uk/news/members-to-get-new-bonus-pension/

[fiveleaves]

Rachel did good. I am happy with the budget. What is there not to like?

[Canary42]

15 years of Tory Greed can't be undone in a day.

[Deskdiary]

7.06pm - SMH.

 

Given you feel there's nothing not to like, what exactly do you like about it (and please don't say lobbing more money at the NHS).

[cashier]

I'd rather more money went to education and less to the NHS. We might have ended up with a halfway decent education system is she'd done that.

[New Judge]

"We might have ended up with a halfway decent education system is she'd done that."

And as a result we might turn out some people with the intelligence to realise that the problems the NHS has will not be solved by simply chucking ever-increasing sums of dosh at it.

[Deskdiary]

A fundamental problem we have is that pretty much all of the front bench have only ever suckled from the public money teat, so they have not the first clue of what generates money. 
 

It's going to be a bumpy ride with these clowns, and there's a number of ideologists on this site who just don't possess the ability to see it.