Quote Originally Posted by 57vintage View Post
That’s among the worst governmental financial statements I’ve heard in 52 years of following them. I’ll depart from the norm and forget any detailed examination - just the top lines are horrendous enough.

It’s up there with Thatcher’s 1979 statement where VAT (introduced by the Tories, and only ever increased by them) near-doubled from 8% to 15%), and Lawson’s bribery of the knuckle-headed in late 80s budgets that saw the UK swing from credit-underpinned bonanza to economic catastrophe in less than two years. It’s up there too with Gideon’s and Trish’s nonsense in making the innocent pay for the bonuses-propelled 2008 meltdown (the biggest chance in my lifetime to take organised capital, jam its knackers in a vice and sack/jail the ****ing lot before running them as public companies). Bailing out the energy larcenists to give consumers discounts, and then expecting the same consumers to pay for the loans to cover this is theft in plain sight.

“Something something something…Corbyn though”.
I think it was a fantastic statement, everything I hoped for.

Labour has a ten point lead in the polls, which could have started to disappear if Truss had done the decent thing and focussed the money tree at those that need it. She basically said f'uck you to all those Labour voters that voted for Boris last time with that statement today thereby locking in the Labour poll lead and unless Starmer really screws up (he's boring and uninspiring but he's not stupid) put your money on him being in Number 10 in a couple of years time