Is Rachel Reeves becoming the new Liz Truss?

[Rockets]

BBC News - Reeves tells businesses no more tax rises as she defends Budget - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33ek51rx57o

[jazzer]

2 hours ago, ianr said:

Where did you get this from?

It came from the 9bn spent on the public above inflation pay award, hence doubling it. Watch the BBC interview of Starmer and Kuenssberg, where Starmer gets absolutely decimated. 

[ianr]

2 hours ago, Sue said:

There's a great big space, but where's the link?! 

in response to   On 19/11/2024 at 08:36, Moovart said:

I know nothing about farming so can't really comment but when I read things like this interesting thread from Guy Shrubsole I am increasingly cynical about those making the loudest noise.  And yes it is a genuine link.

 

I've just had a look at the page source.  It contains a link to a Twitter page that's been automatically embedded in Moovart's post but seems not now operative. So I've dug out the url to have another try, this time without embedding:  https://x.com/guyshrubsole/status/1858490339356533018 .  Seems ok.

 

1 hour ago, jazzer said:

It came from the 9bn spent on the public above inflation pay award, hence doubling it. Watch the BBC interview of Starmer and Kuenssberg, where Starmer gets absolutely decimated. 

in reply to my own "Where did you get this from?" response to your post at https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/353788-is-rachel-reeves-becoming-the-new-liz-truss/?do=findComment&comment=1688310, in which you again spoke of the government's "doubling the national debt".

You seem not to understand the meaning of "national debt".  Might you have been copying someone else's usage?

I'm sorry to hear of Starmer's decimation.

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And the para below was originally a totally new separate post but has also been merged.  Good night forum.

The above merging of my posts in response to Sue and to Jazzer have been done by the forum system, so there's no point in my trying again to separate them.  I've already tried editing out the merging and reposting the one to jazzer, but ended up with the same forced merge.  Apologies.

Latest edit.  The moral seems to be: don't try making two consecutive posts or they'll be liable to merging.  I've now been able to post a freestanding reply to jazzer's post now that there's an intervening post.

Edited 14 hours ago by ianr
Attempted correction of unintended post merging

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[ianr]

1 hour ago, jazzer said:

It came from the 9bn spent on the public above inflation pay award, hence doubling it. Watch the BBC interview of Starmer and Kuenssberg, where Starmer gets absolutely decimated. 

in reply to my own "Where did you get this from?" response to your post at https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/353788-is-rachel-reeves-becoming-the-new-liz-truss/?do=findComment&comment=1688310, in which you again spoke of the government's "doubling the national debt".

You seem not to understand the meaning of "national debt".  Have you perhaps been relying on someone else's usage?

I'm sorry to hear of Starmer's decimation.

Edited 14 hours ago by ianr

[Sephiroth]

"The above merging of my posts in response to Sue and to Jazzer have been done by the forum system, so there's no point in my trying again to separate them"

 

soo aggravating. - has caught me out a few times. I get what the software is trying to do but it really messes with the flow of posts

[Spartacus]

Labours head of communications really should be advising Kier better. 

We've had, so far, the budget will be bad, we've inherited a 20 billion black hole, the NHS is broken, and today "Britain isn't working" in relation to jobs and apprenticeships 

Whilst honesty is a good thing, there are better ways of wording things

Negativity drives negativity in situations like this, especially in business and businesses are what labour requires to grow the economy and offer jobs to the unemployed. 

It does feel like Captain Kier has turned into Private Frazer crying  "we're all doomed"