I've Heard It All Now.......

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/starmer-throws-down-gauntlet-to-watchdogs-with-growth-edict-13280738

"The PM, chancellor and business secretary have written to watchdogs including Ofgem, the FCA and CMA to demand ideas for growth and investment amid sluggish economic growth, " - unbelievable! Having killed off growth with the worst start for a government in history......Just reverse the last budget and start again.

[davebro3]

What did his letter say?

"We ain't got a clue - you guys have any bright ideas?" 🤣

[ToraToraTora]

I think they have demonstrated they are clueless, especially Rachel from accounts.

[Peter Pedant]

erm "do  you have any better ideas? "to OFGEM et al seems like a good idea

but hey this is AB, erm so its not ! - normal Saturday on AB then

[Peter Pedant]

why dont we all volunteer as the treasury team? we can obviously do MUCH better

TTT can write the communiques and minutes. I'll start ( like in see how far this  goes)

" foo-danga danga - foo foo dang ! obvious ! end of ! in short wibbly wobbly woo!   that's clear and dandy isnt it"

and being TTT there is much much more.....I can hardly wait

[Khandro]

//....Having killed off growth with the worst start for a government in history...//

Not surprising when you place someone with a falsified CV as Chancellor of the United Kingdom. She (Reeves) who claimed to have been an 'economist' when all she had done was have a lowly job with the Halifax Bank. 

Of course you could also move along the Front Bench & take a look at the backgrounds of the likes of Rayner, Lammy, etc. 

OMG!

 

[youngmafbog]

You mean the tea girl ot teh Boe and the complaints blerk at HBOS?

14 years labour had to draw up plans.  Clearly they wasted all those beer and curry nights (although Angie didnt attend of course)

[naomi24]

I would like to say this government is pathetic - but it's worse than that.  It's frightening.

[Pegasus16]

As if any more evidence was needed, this failed rudderless Labour circus continues to show how clueless and incompetent they really are.

What a complete shambles.

[cassa333]

Start enforcing the policies already in place.

Get rid of useless, wasteful and vanity projects.

Stop sending billions in aid to countries with a better space programme than we have and other countries that we know filth the money away to their own pockets. Or aid for countries that treat their own people as fodder but the wealthy and influential live it up.

Let every nation and country live within their means and lot on the never never.

The problem with allthat though is that the people who benefit will not let go of the tweet of the UK taxpayer lightly.

[Canary42]

////the worst start for a government in history.////

Surely that was the Lettuce Lady !

[New Judge]

It's strange.

In its 2024 manifesto, Labour devoted fifteen pages and about 5,000 words under the section "Kickstart Economic Growth". They gave the clear impression that tthey knew precisely where the Conservative government had been going wrong and even more precisely what was needed to put it right. 

Now they have moved from Opposition to Government it seems they don't have all (if indeed they have any) of the answers. They have turned for help to the people whose main task is to do precisely the opposite of promoting growth - the regulators. Their main task is to regulate their respective industries, and in doing so restricting their activities and binding them with Red Tape.

Funny old world.

[New Judge]

Surely that was the Lettuce Lady !

It certainly was not. The budget proposed by Ms russ and her Chancellor was never given a chance to see h eligh of day. The threat of it caused a depression in the markets but these were soon reversed when Ms russ was unceremoniously thrown out of office.

The depression in the markets, business and consumer confidence since October has been profound and shows no sign of reversal. 

[Togo]

Why are the Starmtroopers asking unelected quangos what to do? These creepy so called regulatory bodies have even less of a mandate to steer our economy than the lousy cabinet does. 
There is enough mission creep and and authority over reach from them as it is without this dissolute ramble of a Goverment encouraging more. If ever you needed proof that they don't know what they're doing then it is right there in the desperate plea for help from a bunch of parasitic chancers and journeymen.    

[Peter Pedant]

It certainly was not. The budget proposed by Ms Truss and her Chancellor was never given a chance to see the light of day.

There was one budget dribbled out with leaks

because it looked too much like Truss'. and looked what happened to her !

I commented that there may be a set of (eek) circumstances where there is only one way out.... the resta AB coughed and blaaarted of course

[Old_Geezer]

If one is naive enough not to take market reaction into account as one goes gung ho into one's belief what has to be done immediately, then one has failed and has only oneself to blame.

[Peter Pedant]

These creepy so called regulatory bodies have even less of a mandate to steer our economy than the lousy cabinet does. 

the baby went out in the bath water in Camerons Bonfire of the Quangos. The triennial maternal mortality went out and was not replaced and that allowed 18 mothers to die at one hospital without er anyone noticing

I think you can elect them - MPs then the ctee is stuffed according to the number of seats in the commons - non fed judges are elected in the Land of the Free and are NOT notably better than our high court wiggies

or elect direct - Manchester good, Boris and London bad.

The GMC is directly appointed and is hugely expensive paid for by doctors' subs and is generally approved of

The IOPC ( police body) are just looked on as a crowd of winkers, which doesnt do anything

One size doesnt fit all I suppose

Note - this is intended as a serious comment with examples you didn expect - not modder fodder where one mod ( ah bless) screams un-mimsy and four press the zap button