She also plans to stop non-essential spending on consultants and sell off surplus property.
She means privatisation.
Those findings led the government to accuse the Conservatives of making significant funding commitments for this financial year “without knowing where the money would come from”.
You ask the Central Bank to type in some numbers that's how. You can at the same time increase taxes on the rich so they can't buy shit or hoard their wealth.
And despite billions spent to house migrants and combat the criminal gangs ferrying migrants across the English Channel on dangerous inflatable boats, the number of people making the crossing is still rising, Starmer’s office said.
“The assessment will show that the UK is broke and broken — revealing the mess that populist politics has made of the economy and public services,” Downing Street said in a statement.
UK households and state assets are broken and broke because of austerity, not because the Government was spending too much or taxing (the poor) too little.
“The assessment will show that the UK is broke and broken — revealing the mess that populist politics has made of the economy and public services,” Downing Street said in a statement.
"Populist politics" they're referring to not increasing taxes on the poor.
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They refuse to increase spending by creating new money because it'll hit their City of London imposed rules.
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They refuse to raise taxes on the rich because they work for them.
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Because they can't increase spending without pushing the deficit beyond their self imposed limits or raise taxes on the rich to give them more room within their limits, the only "solution" is to tax the poor.
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Taxing the poor is ridiculous not just because they don't make much money but also due to reduction in total demand. With people having less money, stuff won't sell and capitalists will start firing workers etc....
I always find this funny. Like is France not sending their best? Or maybe Germany? The UK government desperately wants to be a Mediterranean state.
No, it's refugees and migrants from all over the world but mainly West Asia and North/East Africa, for whom the easiest way to reach the UK is to attempt a dangerous crossing of the world's busiest shipping lane in small boats because the UK provides no other means for refugees and migrants from the countries we've destroyed and looted to flee and come here.
If the government just provided a proper means for refugees and migrants to come here rather than pretending like we don't have to do our part to take care of these people because there are other European states between us and their home countries, then there wouldn't be children drowning in the Channel every so often.
Sorry, I was being too sarcastic. I was implying the UK was like in US where they treat immigrants like a boogeyman, gets conservative governments talking about borders and walls, and the "waves of migrants on our borders" imagery serves that end. I've commented before on how, in the US, some conservative governments try and ban immigrants and face backlash from the employer class. I don't want to downplay the actual horror of migrants crossing physical borders and the unhumanity they face.