Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 23/11/2023getting a lot of support and attention elsewhere emphasizing that the *overwhelming* point re the Autumn Statement is that they've cut £20bn from public spending and don't have to explain how. This matters more than everything else 64827
Dave H @thinkfoo.uk · 23/11/2023It's odd, how anyone can look at the current state of public services, be it the NHS, roads, the courts, prisons, the armed forces or pretty much anything else and think, "yeah what we need is more austerity" is beyond me. 061
Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 23/11/2023And this is being presented as a trap for labour who now have to explain where they're finding that money. I'd *like* to think voters will see what's going on here. 261
Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 23/11/2023They don’t have to explain it because it only happens in an imaginary future when they do it because in the meantime nothing has turned up alongside the unexpected election victory. 040
Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 23/11/2023How is clear, more pain, worse services and privatisation 000
Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 23/11/2023They could recover the 20bn fraud from Michelle Mone to cover that. 020
