the #budget: plans to placate backbench critics, not meet the nation’s needs

Raising #taxes and cutting #PublicSpending won’t generate the #investment to lift #LivingStandards and #productivity
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/06/the-guardian-view-on-the-budget-plans-to-placate-backbench-critics-not-meet-the-nations-needs
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryCynicism #TorySelfServing
#Budget2024

#Hunt redefines ‘#LevellingUp’ with focus on #Cambridge, #CanaryWharf and #Surrey

Critics say extra funding to key battleground constituencies proves government ‘happy to ignore #RegionalInequality
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/07/hunt-redefines-levelling-up-with-focus-on-cambridge-canary-wharf-and-surrey
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryCynicism

#JeremyHunt gave us a #HitAndRunBudget. But unlike cornered #chancellors past, he showed no shame

The #Tories can see the writing on the wall – so they are intent on wrecking things for an incoming #Labour government
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/06/jeremy-hunt-spring-budget-tories-labour
#ToryPoliciesInAction
#ToryCynicism

'#JeremyHunt knows #Brexit #Britain can’t afford to cut #taxes

The #chancellor is prepared to inflict yet more #austerity to pay for a #budget bribe. But the #UK needs more spending, not less'
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/03/jeremy-hunt-knows-brexit-britain-cant-afford-to-cut-taxes
#ToryPoliciesInAction #PlannedPenury #ToryCynicism #Budget2024 #ToryCorruption

'27 new #BathingSites considered for #England as activists highlight #sewage dangers

#BathingWater status means government is obliged to test #WaterQuality throughout summer

Almost all of the new bathing sites – 22 out of the 27 – are in #Tory constituencies. Conservatives have recently suffered in the polls because of a perceived failure to act on #SewagePollution.' https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/26/new-bathing-sites-considered-england-campaigners-highlight-sewage-dangers
#ToryCynicism #Figleaf

#UK #PublicServices will buckle under planned spending cuts, economists warn

Chancellor is considering cutting billions more from public spending to pay for reductions in tax or NI
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/26/uk-public-services-will-buckle-under-planned-spending-cuts-economists-warn
#ToryPoliciesInAction ,#ToryCynicism #PoisonedChalis

'Neglect, deflect, then scapegoat those you’ve exploited: that’s what passes for #UK #ImmigrationPolicy

The frenzied debate about ‘record levels’ of net #migration ignores the true cause of it all'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/04/uk-immigration-policy-record-levels-net-migration
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryCynicism #ToryInhumanity

#Hunt ‘will create implausible #austerity with #PostElection #PublicSpending cuts’

Thinktank attacks chancellor’s giveaways as #OBR warns of ‘challenges’ for #councils and services
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/22/jeremy-hunt-austerity-public-spending-cuts-obr-resolution-foundation

#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryCynicism

"He, the Great RishGPT, had come up with the bold and, if he might say so himself, extremely brave idea that the country could have its cake and eat it. Yes, he knew this might not be popular – the dishonesty meter flickered off the scale at this point – but he had worked out that the UK could meet its net zero targets by not meeting its net zero targets." John Crace

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/21/sunaks-bold-climate-plan-wait-until-2047-then-push-the-panic-button

#Sunak #13YearsToryMisrule #NetZero #ToryCynicism #ClimateCrisis