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.

[youngmafbog]

Who was that man, surley it was an imposter not the real Rishi Sunak? 

Some people on here seem to not look beyond face value, and then we get the usual from the "brilliant" Atheist🙄

[10ClarionSt]

If Rishi Soonaxed had had the same passion when he was PM, he might still be the PM. He wasn't very happy, was he? Perhaps, methinks the Rt Hon Member doth protest too much.

[nicebloke1]

Ha ha ha ha ha. Sunak wiping the floor? Sunak had his chance to wipe the floor in the GE, he couldn't wipe his nose without help.

All talk and no trousers, what you saw today was Sunak losing his rag, because labour had to show him how to produce a brilliant budget that will put this country back on its feet. The cons had 14 years to do the same but failed time and time again, not only failed but failed with 3 x PMs. Now thats one hell of a fail, don't you think. 

The only area they didn't fail was in filling their own wallets.

In only a few months KS has fired back up the boilers to get this country steaming back on track.

[douglas9401]

I'd forgotten the wee man in all the excitement.

Maybe he was acting out the final chapter in his book which is sure to appear soon. Give it some pzazz.

[Deskdiary]

9.19am - I'm starting to think this might be a parody account. If it isn't, and that is what is actually believed...crikey.

[10ClarionSt]

I don't agree with gramps85 @ 16.44.

The Tories lost the election because their own supporters deserted them, en masse. That's not quite the same as saying people fell for Starmer's lies. It was an extraordinary result for Labour, and yes, Starmer did say they wouldn't increase taxes for ordinary people, but that wasn't why Labour won so convincingly. I've seen comments from people saying they're sorry they voted for Labour, but that wasn't the clincher. The clincher was Tory voters switching to Reform, Lib Dem, and others. 

[Untitled]

indeed. not that many people actually voted labour and many of their seats have small majorities. the vast majority of people who voted reform were previously tory voters and so they split the right-wing vote. reform uk is a huge gift to labour.