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The new Chancellor’s statements

Posted by Allan Campbell on 30/7/2024, 10:37:07

This £22bn black hole whatever it is. You can read it one way or read it another.

If you had any nouse at all you knew that there were going to be problems money wise caused by the COVID pandemic.

The then Government dished out loads of money in support of workers etc. yes some wasted as we know.

That money spent on the various support and other costs etc would have to be replaced or whatever over time. It only could be replaced by getting the economy going again.

We can never understand the figures that have been quoted to get to this £22bn but there will have been some cooking of the books to give the result so that they can blame the previous Government.

Personally I think that the previous Government didn’t do too bad of a job under the circumstances.

Allan C.

Re: The new Chancellor’s statements

Posted by Liz Dance on 30/7/2024, 11:43:11, in reply to "The new Chancellor’s statements"

I have to agree with you Allan on that point, during the Election the amount of money spent on covid was hardly ever mentioned, people have short memories as to how they survived during the lockdowns, maybe if the previous Government had made more of a point on how much furlough cost it might have helped them.

This speech by RR is just the start of how Labour are going to approach things, just think we could have another 4 years 11 months of this nonsense unless, of course, they manage to alter how long a Government’s Term in Office can last!!!

Re: The new Chancellor’s statements

Posted by Alan Young on 30/7/2024, 13:51:33, in reply to "Re: The new Chancellor’s statements"

Totally agree with Allan and Liz - people have very short memories - covid did not happen a decade ago, just five short years. If Labour had been in power we may sill be in lock down !!!

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