O/T - general election 2019

[Silly-miller]

How many leavers were on Mays front bench? Just remind me

If I remember right I think they was 3 or 4 at start then they quit in protest on mays deal leaving all remainers.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

If I remember right I think they was 3 or 4 at start then they quit in protest on mays deal leaving all remainers.

Including the Chancellor who continued to say they were working to a leave deal whilst simultaneously issuing fire warnings about doing so.

Fortunately events later showed his true colours.

Regarding the election though is there anybody after years of dithering, broken promises, and general disgust of politicians of all colours, that's not yet decided who they will vote for ( if at all)?

[Godsend.F.C.]

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/bu...funding/25/11/

Dire warning from the IFS for social care in the future.

[Exiletyke]

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/bu...funding/25/11/

Dire warning from the IFS for social care in the future.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies is deeply unimpressed at what it deemed a “lack of significant policy action” in the Conservative Party manifesto.

The Tory social care crisis for Britain’s elderly and infirm that Johnson had promised to fix when he became PM did not even get a mention in the manifesto. Johnson had previously claimed that he had a plan ready to sort it out.

The IFS concluded that the manifesto plans meant people expecting relief for Britain’s public services after a decade of austerity would instead see “cuts to their day-to-day budgets of the last decade baked in.”

Economic researchers at the independent think tank calculated that the National Insurance threshold rise to £9,500 that Boris Johnson appeared to have lied or been mistaken about will actually only save most in paid work “less than £2 a week” and highlighted the “notable omission” for any plan to deal with the crisis in social care funding.

Nigel Edwards, chief executive at the Nuffield Trust, an independent health think tank, said he was “bitterly disappointed” to see “unnecessary delay” in tackling the issue of social care.

IFS director Paul Johnson said: “If a single Budget had contained all these tax and spending proposals, we would have been calling it modest.

“As a blueprint for five years in government, the lack of significant policy action is remarkable.”

Perhaps Kerr could give us his spin on this

[KerrAvon]

The Institute for Fiscal Studies is deeply unimpressed at what it deemed a “lack of significant policy action” in the Conservative Party manifesto.

The Tory social care crisis for Britain’s elderly and infirm that Johnson had promised to fix when he became PM did not even get a mention in the manifesto. Johnson had previously claimed that he had a plan ready to sort it out.

The IFS concluded that the manifesto plans meant people expecting relief for Britain’s public services after a decade of austerity would instead see “cuts to their day-to-day budgets of the last decade baked in.”

Economic researchers at the independent think tank calculated that the National Insurance threshold rise to £9,500 that Boris Johnson appeared to have lied or been mistaken about will actually only save most in paid work “less than £2 a week” and highlighted the “notable omission” for any plan to deal with the crisis in social care funding.

Nigel Edwards, chief executive at the Nuffield Trust, an independent health think tank, said he was “bitterly disappointed” to see “unnecessary delay” in tackling the issue of social care.

IFS director Paul Johnson said: “If a single Budget had contained all these tax and spending proposals, we would have been calling it modest.

“As a blueprint for five years in government, the lack of significant policy action is remarkable.”

Perhaps Kerr could give us his spin on this

What the IFS says is already pretty well spun in that article. Here’s a link to the real thing:

https://www.ifs.org.uk/election/2019...fs-researchers

Secondly, I would have thought that how animal and raging spins it would be more interesting than what I think. I’m a fan of the IFS whereas they have both spent time branding the them as neoliberal enemies of the revolution and mouthpieces of the bourgeois hegemony or whatever the current buzz phrases of the Left are. Are they going to a do a 180?

The IFS analysis is hardly surprising. The Tory manifesto was rather ‘beige’ to say the least.

[Exiletyke]

What the IFS says is already pretty well spun in that article. Here’s a link to the real thing:

https://www.ifs.org.uk/election/2019...fs-researchers

Secondly, I would have thought that how animal and raging spins it would be more interesting than what I think. I’m a fan of the IFS whereas they have both spent time branding the them as neoliberal enemies of the revolution and mouthpieces of the bourgeois hegemony or whatever the current buzz phrases of the Left are. Are they going to a do a 180?

The IFS analysis is hardly surprising. The Tory manifesto was rather ‘beige’ to say the least.

Something amiss here Kerr you have failed to sign off your post with your usual bile on Labour
Are you not feeling well?