Overspend/under delivery by the former government confirmed!

Thank you for this, very informative. I'm glad the truth is being shown.

Well, what a shock!!!

Liars and thieves and the current government isn’t much better..

Well, no surprise there then!

Thank you for this absolute clarity. No wonder Sunak had to call an election, and the Labour Party were right after all with the holes in spending.

What a legacy.

The current Gov is no better. In fact it's making things much worse. It's adding greatly to the debt already there. Labour have a bad reputation of spending other people's money, till other people's money, ie tax payer, runs out.

I look forward to your evidence Freya5 of Labour spending £750m with no benefit to the country. I am glad to see you acknowledge the debt (£22 billion) left by the last government! The new figures outlined in OP need adding to that.

Freya there is a massive difference between 14 years and a few short months but of course it’s better to spread the blame
But at least you re happy, if very wrong whoopppee

Freya5

The current Gov is no better. In fact it's making things much worse. It's adding greatly to the debt already there. Labour have a bad reputation of spending other people's money, till other people's money, ie tax payer, runs out.

I think it’s far too early to judge this govt.

It’s clear there was £££££££ wasted in the last govt.

May - ££££££ to the DUPs
Johnson - ££££££££££££ Track & Trace and PPE (just name two)
Truss - a fiscal disaster in 6 weeks.

I’m not a fan of some of the LP policies nor how they’ve been implemented, but one cannot compare 14 years to 6 months.

We need to be see the impact, negatively or positively, before we judge.

£715 million! What a breath taking waste of money for absolutely no result whatsover. You could give every pensioner who relies solely on the state pension over £700 each, or give every secondary school age pupil £420 or even better, it could have been spent running an effective service for processing asylum seekers. What a complete shambolic waste of tax payer's money!

How anyone can criticise the current government after four minths yet excuse the previous 14 years of misrule remains a mystery to me

Iam64

How anyone can criticise the current government after four minths yet excuse the previous 14 years of misrule remains a mystery to me

Absolutely! I can’t believe that people have such short memories. The Tories brought this country to its knees. And please, people, don’t complain about taxes being increased. If we want decent public services that’s where the money will have to come from.

None of this surprises me, sadly. I hope for better with the new government.

I know this might sound simple but the Labour government will know how much the Rwanda scheme cost to set up. So why in heaven’s name did it not at least trial it first before throwing it out at the first opportunity?
Remind me again as to which government wasted the money?

news.sky.com/story/whole-tory-cabinet-knew-rwanda-bill-wouldnt-work-robert-jenrick-claims-13244231
This is why ronib.

Because it was morally wrong and potentially illegal, Ronib

Casdon as a deterrent it may well have had some impact on numbers coming here but we were never going to find out.
Trump mentioned that he was interested in Rwanda so wait and see.
It’s remarkable that both Labour and Conservatives are so disrespectful of the taxpayer.

Reasons Jenrick and others know it would'nt work

"The figures mean that if the UK sends 300 people to Rwanda, it will cost the taxpayer £490m under the partnership; an extra £6m in individual payments; plus £45m for processing and operational costs over five years. The total costs would be £541m, which works out as £1.8m per asylum seeker

a lot more www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/01/rwanda-plan-uk-asylum-seeker-cost-figures

International Law: the plan was that even if in Rwanda, the person was assessed as an asylum seeker, they had no right to return to the UK although they had laid their claim to be granted asylum here.

Numbers: Rwanda could never have taken the numbers, but during the time Rwanda plans were bing drawn up, they dropped the ball as in processing/deporting people meaning a build up. Therefore not a deterrent as soon as Rwanda has taken max numbers.

ronib

Casdon as a deterrent it may well have had some impact on numbers coming here but we were never going to find out.
Trump mentioned that he was interested in Rwanda so wait and see.
It’s remarkable that both Labour and Conservatives are so disrespectful of the taxpayer.

Yes, Conservatives were very disrespectful of the tax payer with this scheme. And now, as the O/P points out, tax payers are having to foot the bill left behind.

Surely we elect MPs to govern and should judge them by their ability to govern not on how much they do our bidding. I didn't vote for the last Conservative government, disagreed with many of the decisions they made but didn't dispute their right to govern (unlike those who have signed the petition!) I did have a problem though when they were trying to act illegally.

I am having trouble with the vast amounts of money being spent by government.

If you want better NHS, education, transport, social services etc etc etc then money must be spent and we all have to pay more.

I don't know to what you are referring.

My comment was to Ronib, who didn't say what we are "overspending" on.

You are quite right Nannytopsy, faced with the hole left in spending, the government cannot possibly cut those areas.