Are your taxes (or your working ACs, and AGCs) really going to go down?

Tell us something we don’t already know.

What might be interesting to many is that the tax 'cuts' are being 'paid for' by even more cuts to public services.

I saw Hunt being quoted yesterday as saying that the cuts are needed to 'eliminate waste' in the public sector. But they've been saying this for 13 years now. Either that was one hell of a lot of 'waste' which needed eliminating or 13 years of tory government has been extremely bad at doing anything about it...

But we all know that cutting public spending is really purely ideological. And that further cuts will not only make struggling public services even worse but, with the public sector usually contributing to at least one third of GDP, they will just further depress growth.

The OBR know that, they downgraded their growth forecast on the strength of this Autumn Statement.

Isn't it a little presumptuous to assume you have nothing more to learn?

Hopefully, some will find it useful. If not, that's fine too Germanshepherdsmum

It is Maisie.

Sadly, 'eliminating waste in the public sector' has always been a euphemism for 'eliminating the private sector'.

If they were updating these areas I could understand, but they are simply starving everything in the public sphere.

Sadly, 'eliminating waste in the public sector' has always been a euphemism for 'eliminating the private sector'.

Don't you mean 'eliminating the public sector'?

If you thought that clip was informative DAR, I’m amazed - unless of course the intended audience are singularly ignorant. Possibly the latter given the format.

Germanshepherdsmum

If you thought that clip was informative DAR, I’m amazed - unless of course the intended audience are singularly ignorant. Possibly the latter given the format.

Now that unnecessary post makes me think the right are really worried. You seem to have suddenly become very class conscious. Isn't that dreadfully nouveau in your world?

Class conscious, moi?

Is it the Yorkshire accent Germanshepherdsmum? I do think it would be interesting to hear people on her as well as read them. Broad Essex for you perhaps

Eh bah goom lass, I canna say. 😁

DaisyAnneReturns

Is it the Yorkshire accent Germanshepherdsmum? I do think it would be interesting to hear people on her as well as read them. Broad Essex for you perhaps

I thought GSM was in Norfolk. Quite different from Essex...

Germanshepherdsmum

Eh bah goom lass, I canna say. 😁

It's 'eeee', not 'eh'.

At least, it was when I lived in Yorkshire

I'd be surprised if GFM 's accent is NFN

or even that she is NFN

I lived most of my life in and just outside Cambridge. Then rural Essex for some years, and retired to Norfolk. No discernible accent.

MaizieD

DaisyAnneReturns

Is it the Yorkshire accent Germanshepherdsmum? I do think it would be interesting to hear people on her as well as read them. Broad Essex for you perhaps

I thought GSM was in Norfolk. Quite different from Essex...

It is Maizie, my father was from Norfolk. I could really only hear his accent when he was on the phone. I imagine Airforce life gradually eroded it.

MaizieD

Germanshepherdsmum

Eh bah goom lass, I canna say. 😁

It's 'eeee', not 'eh'.

At least, it was when I lived in Yorkshire

And "canna" would further up than Yorkshire I think.

I don't think I have an accent either Germanshepherdsmum, but I am surprised when I hear a recording.

‘Canna say” is more north east than Yorkshire, too.

You’ve found my soft spot - I wondered if anyone spot it.

Matt Baker: Travels with Mum and Dad is on at the moment for those who want to see a bit of lovely Yorkshire and the North East - they heading for Barnard Castle at the moment and the Bowes Museum at the moment.

We live on an amazing island.

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Just listening to/watching The New Statesman Questions podcast on which they were answering a question, having checked the latest figures on livng standards, which this time come from the Resolution Foundation, a respected think-tank. They found that this year ,workers in the UK are £11,000 worse off a year after 15 years of wage stagnation.

The also pointed out that the standard Tory reply is that we have 4 million more people in work. The explained this is partly due to the increase in net migration as discussed elsewhere and that we have one of the highest employment rates in the developed world - unemployment is low. Then you hsve to ask questions about the quality of those jobs and whether they enable people to maintain their living standards. The answer to that, in the last 18 months has often been "no". It is also often insecure, gig economy work.