Oh fuck off you gaslighting privileged Tory wanker....
![6h ago Starmer concedes cost of living crisis is ‘ongoing’ - but
09:32 insists ministers are 'bearing down’ on it
Bills increasing across the board for millions today - and speaking to our political
editor Beth Rigby, the prime minister admitted that *for most people, they would
say the cost of living crisis is ongoing and they feel the pressure financially”.
Sir Keir Starmer continued: “That's why it's so important that we make good on our
pledge that people would feel better off, and the national living wage going up.
today by an average of £1400 is going to affect millions of people.”
The PM also pointed to interest rates coming down, and wages rising more quickly
‘than prices.
"| acknowledge that with bills coming in, people see that rise and that is a
pressure,” the PM added. "So we're bearing down on this."
The Office for Budget Responsibility has said things will get harder for the public
before they get better, and the PM replied: "| am not going to stand here and say
people don't feel the impact of bills. OF course they do. | understand that.
"The question is, are we making them feel better off? And that's why the national
living wage [increase] today is so important.”](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/263/229/990/345/775/original/6724e5abb27c24aa.png "6h ago Starmer concedes cost of living crisis is ‘ongoing’ - but
09:32 insists ministers are 'bearing down’ on it
Bills increasing across the board for millions today - and speaking to our political
editor Beth Rigby, the prime minister admitted that *for most people, they would
say the cost of living crisis is ongoing and they feel the pressure financially”.
Sir Keir Starmer continued: “That's why it's so important that we make good on our
pledge that people would feel better off, and the national living wage going up.
today by an average of £1400 is going to affect millions of people.”
The PM also pointed to interest rates coming down, and wages rising more quickly
‘than prices.
\"| acknowledge that with bills coming in, people see that rise and that is a
pressure,” the PM added. \"So we're bearing down on this.\"
The Office for Budget Responsibility has said things will get harder for the public
before they get better, and the PM replied: \"| am not going to stand here and say
people don't feel the impact of bills. OF course they do. | understand that.
\"The question is, are we making them feel better off? And that's why the national
living wage [increase] today is so important.”")
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It's almost like our 'super bestest fwend' doesn't care what happens to us, isn't it?
Shall we embarrass ourselves even more by pretending the Special Relationship is real and will protect us from Tariffs?
Who needs self respect and dignity when you can have a Trump Trade Deal instead?
When GDP growth is the aim, anything can be justified. The blinkered #OBR cheers on the absolutely unnecessary destruction of green spaces.
Planning reforms offer a bright spot for Rachel Reeves – but grey areas exist | Heather Stewart | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/30/planning-reforms-offer-a-bright-spot-for-rachel-reeves-but-grey-areas-exist
#planning #GreenSpace #GrednBelt
The Guardian · Planning reforms offer a bright spot for Rachel Reeves – but grey areas exist
Matt @MattCartoonist on #OBR #Borrowing @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
#OBR 'unexpected'. Only if you can't do your sums #RachelReeves . Try listening to the #FDA (senior #civil #'servants). They can all do their #sums. #economics #growth #taxes
A more balanced, less partisan analysis of the Spring budget statement. Some relatively good, & some not so great news.
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rachel-reeves-spring-statement
#RachelReeves
#OBR
#UKpolitics
#SpringStatement
#springbudget
#obrforecast
#UKpol
#UKeconomy
#fiscalrules
Institute for GovernmentRachel Reeves and the 2025 spring statement: Four key questions for the chancellor | Institute for GovernmentHow will the spring statement shape the chancellor's spending choices?
Dire statements from the #OBR head this morning.
Said #housebuilding stagnation is due to #planning restrictions and we should build on #GreenBelt.
No mention of the 1 million plus unbuilt homes for which developers have permission.
Swallowed #DeveloperLobby propaganda.
See https://www.communityplanningalliance.org/uploads/1/3/9/4/139430416/241211_homes_for_everyone_finaldec24_cpa.pdf last section.
And https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/our-response-to-the-new-planning-and-infrastructure-bill/
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"Falling domestic confidence"
I WONDER WHAT COULD BE DRIVING THAT?!
Rachel Reeves delivers key speech as OBR cuts UK growth forecast in half https://www.byteseu.com/865312/ #EconomicGrowth #GreatBritain #HeathrowAirport #OBR #OfficeForBudgetResponsibility #RachelReeves #UKInflationRate #UnitedKingdom #WelfareBenefits #WelfareCuts
#ReformUK says “scrapping net zero and related subsidies” would save £30bn per year. The #OBR's well researched scenario of “unmitigated global warming” showing UK public sector net debt rising to 300% of GDP by end of the century due to a hotter climate. Reform's delusion is clear. #ClimateCrisis
One Billion Rising
14.02.25 – 16 bis 18 Uhr – Alter Markt – Köln
Weltweiter Aktionstag gegen Gewalt an Frauen und Mädchen
Reblog von One Billion Rising Köln
Zum 13. Mal werden wir uns hier in Köln zusammen mit Millionen von Menschen auf der ganzen Welt erheben und gemeinsam zur OBR-Hymne „Break the Chain“ gegen Gewalt an Frauen* und Mädchen* tanzen.Außerdem wird es einige Redebeiträge und Live-Musik geben, auch von Marie Enganemben, die wieder die kölsche Version „Spreng dinge Ketten“ singen wird.
Hier ist der Text als Download: Spreng dinge Ketten (pdf-Datei, 105 KB)
Auch dieses Jahr gibt es wieder Aufkleber und Postkarten, Plakate kommen noch dazu.Alle, die Mobi-Material haben wollen, melden sich gerne unter info@onebillionrising-koeln.de, mit Angabe von Anzahl und Adresse.
https://koelle4future.de/blog/2025/02/11/one-billion-rising/
Rant_ifa Übrigens, #TeamHabeck.
Das bevölkerungsreichste Bundesland der Republik, #NRW, regiert seit Sommer 2022 Schwarz-Grün.
Habe eben mit der Opferberatungsstelle Rheinland, #OBR, telefoniert. Diejenigen, die Opfer rechter Gewalt unterstützen.
Ihnen wurden die Mittel drastisch gekürzt. Personal musste entlassen werden.
Ich benötigte mehrfach von ihnen Unterstützung. Sie machen hervorragende Arbeit.
Ist das eure #Zuversicht, ROOOBERT?
Ah, so Hunt was fiddling the books and may have broken the law to do so.
The Guardian · Treasury may have broken law by failing to reveal £9.5bn spend in Tory budget, MPs told
Research by the University of California’s Prof Valerie Ramey, for example, shows that in an #economy such as Britain’s, suffering from a prolonged period of #publicunderinvestment, the impact of an injection of #publicinvestment on the scale proposed by Reeves would at least double the returns supposed by the #OBR
#Investmentdrivesgrowth. That’s why gloomy forecasters are so wrong about the budget | Will Hutton | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/03/investment-drives-growth-thats-why-gloomy-forecasters-are-so-wrong-about-the-budget
The Guardian · Investment drives growth. That’s why gloomy forecasters are so wrong about the budget
#Starmer ignores the real will of the people but for how long can he ignore the facts as set out by the #OBR?
Echoing the call for a public inquiry into the true cost of #Brexit.
#BrexitBrokeBritain #BrexitBlackHole #RejoinEU
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-uk-trade-reduction-obr-eu-b2638317.html
The Independent · Catastrophic cost of Brexit on UK trade revealed in stark OBR warning
The #OBR report, mentioning the massive overspends in #Hunt's Spring Statement, may be found here:
"The Treasury [Hunt] did not share information with the OBR about the large pressures on RDEL, about the unusual extent of commitments against the reserve, or about any plans to manage these pressures down at the challenge panel."
https://obr.uk/review-of-the-march-2024-forecast-for-departmental-expenditure-limits/
Office for Budget Responsibility · Review of the March 2024 forecast for departmental expenditure limits - Office for Budget ResponsibilityAlongside the October 2024 Economic and fiscal outlook we published our Review of the March 2024 departmental expenditure limits (DEL) forecast. We also wrote to the Chair of the Treasury Select Committee with the findings, recommendations and answers to questions received about the review process.
Did #Hunt deliberately mislead the country?
Did Hunt breach the Ministerial Code?
"The review found that in the run-up to the March 2024 Budget, the Treasury had information about £9.5 billion of net pressures on departments’ budgets in 2024-25 which it did not share with us."
Richard Hughes
Chair #OBR
"
https://obr.uk/docs/dlm_uploads/Letter_to_Meg_Hillier_DEL_Review.pdf
The #OBR report has confirmed they were only told about the massive overspends in #Hunt's Spring Statement last week.
They confirmed the Tories covered up a £22 billion black hole by not outlining where their revenue spending would fall and so by publishing this report today and mentioning this point, the OBR are challenging the honesty and integrity of Hunt specifically and the Conservative Treasury of the time generally.
That's a very extreme matter.
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Capitalism means your living standards will drop in the next few years as the people who own the Capital punish those who have none.
Yayy.
![30m ago 1632 GMT
UK living standards will suffer from the chancellor’s decision to increase the national insurance contributions paid by companies.
The Office for Budget Responsibility estimates that growth in real household disposable income per person, a measure of living standards, will stall in 2026-27 and 2027-28, as firms are squeezed.
[as flagged at 2.43pm, real wages are expected to stall in 2026 and 2027 as firms pass on the cost of their higher NICs bills to their workforce].
The OBR says:
44 Real household disposable income (RHDI) per person, a measure of living standards, grows by an average of just over ¥ a per cent a year over the forecast.
But the profile is uneven, with strong real wage increases resulting in growth of 1% per cent this fiscal year and next before RHDI per person stalls for two years in the middle of the forecast as real wage growth slows and taxes increase. Compared to our March forecast, the level of RHDI per person is just over 2 per cent higher at the start of the forecast due to data revisions, but 1% per cent lower by the start of 2029.
The bulk of this difference (around 85 per cent) is explained by policies announced in this Budget.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/397/453/835/286/835/original/62fc25d5b7e503a1.png "30m ago 1632 GMT
UK living standards will suffer from the chancellor’s decision to increase the national insurance contributions paid by companies.
The Office for Budget Responsibility estimates that growth in real household disposable income per person, a measure of living standards, will stall in 2026-27 and 2027-28, as firms are squeezed.
[as flagged at 2.43pm, real wages are expected to stall in 2026 and 2027 as firms pass on the cost of their higher NICs bills to their workforce].
The OBR says:
44 Real household disposable income (RHDI) per person, a measure of living standards, grows by an average of just over ¥ a per cent a year over the forecast.
But the profile is uneven, with strong real wage increases resulting in growth of 1% per cent this fiscal year and next before RHDI per person stalls for two years in the middle of the forecast as real wage growth slows and taxes increase. Compared to our March forecast, the level of RHDI per person is just over 2 per cent higher at the start of the forecast due to data revisions, but 1% per cent lower by the start of 2029.
The bulk of this difference (around 85 per cent) is explained by policies announced in this Budget.")