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A smaller black hole than suggested by the dishonest communist Chancellor.
Black hole made bigger by Labour's choices.
I am actually quite worried about what she will do in October.
The only silver lining is that they will be voted out in 5 years time having wrecked the place even more.
There will be some people out there wondering why they put the cross in the red box.
Vote in haste and repent at leisure.

As usual it's all slippery words, same as Conservatives before. The supposed black hole includes wage increases not funded in the manifesto but planned anyway.

Let's start by reducing the size of govt, i.e the 100,000 + civil servants recruited since covid, get some real productivity and cut the DEI costs and similar wastes, have a hard look at every NGO that gets funding and the usual suspect, the foreign " aid " budget.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

No idea why the link has gone - sorry.
On another note I listened to a PMQ's - I presume - from earlier this year where Starmer called Sunak out about the possibility of cancelling the winter fuel allowance for pensioners and told him he thought it was the worn thing to do.
He also accused Sunak of doing so to help make up the £46billion black hole in finances.
Sorry - Reeves and he are lying weasels.
The IFS have said that there was a hole, just not the size that Reeves said but it became bigger when she awarded a ton of above inflation pay rises to the public sector - with more to come!
They will wreak havoc on everyone and it is fair to say that if there was another election today, they would not get in.
Cowardly to say all that she has before the recess but the honeymoon appears to be well and truly over!

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The whole 5 years - yes - it makes me feel better

Well they certainly won't get any pensioners voting for them. If losing the winter fuel allowance wasn't bad enough it looks like Bank of England may drop the lending rate today so that pensioners' savings will attract less interest.

A double whammy and they've only been in a month

Well, that shouldn't cost too much seeing as no-one in the country can seem to get to see one, as they are such a rare breed these days

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers