£18bn cuts to public services

Oldbat1

HS2 is a total waste of money and should never have been started. The environmental damage is unforgivable for what realistic benefit? The nhs and education are far more important.

At least it's keeping some people in work, Oldbat1. This is not, IMO, a good time to be throwing them into the benefits system... Especially if the DWP is going to have an at least 10% real terms cut in funding....

HS2 is a total waste of money and should never have been started. The environmental damage is unforgivable for what realistic benefit? The nhs and education are far more important.

Unfortunately this government isn’t thinking! S long as their rich friends and investment bankers are all OK they really don’t care about our NHS! All that fake care (clapping on Thursdays) during covid! They don’t care about our overworked police! Or stressed our teachers! It’s horrendous!

Well, if people won't challenge the lie that taxation funds spending; or even give the idea a bit of consideration, what else do you expect?

The real sadness of this is that the only thing that is going to pull us out of the economic mess that we're in is increased state spending because I can't see meaningful investment coming from any other source.

I have explained the reasoning behind my assertions many, many times. Do I have to do it again ( Noooooooooo, I hear the cry go up )

The cuts to public services will be much more than £18bn I’m sure the aim is to reduce what is available on the NHS, basic healthcare will stay anything more will be severely restricted.

Totally agree LizzieDrip

Today we are witnessing the death of the NHS, free at the point of need.

“Society becomes more wholesome, more serene, and spiritually healthier, if it knows that its citizens have at the back of their consciousness the knowledge that not only themselves, but all their fellows, have access, when ill, to the best that medical skill can provide.” A. Bevan

Today is a sad day for our entire society.

I, too, think they should cancel HS2. It doesn't reach the true north of the country for a start. The environmental damage is horrendous. And would saving 20 minutes (or whatever) really stop anyone travelling north or south for business or pleasure? Utter waste of money.

The NHS and education are far more important.

Because HS2 is a vanity project and they want to deliberately downgrade the NHS so that they can say that there is no alternative to selling it off to the private sector, particularly hospitals on very valuable real estate.
The party of the small state and low taxes.

Why on earth don’t they cancel HS2? That’s forecast to cost another £60bn at least.

The Winter of Discontent looms ever closer.