Labour’s disdain for conducting impact assessments on the effects of its cuts and austerity reaches the ‘MSM’ – 11 months after Skwawkbox exclusively revealed it
The Telegraph has today reported that right-wing Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves carried out ‘no impact assessment’ before ‘withdrawing winter fuel payments for 10 million pensioners, the Telegraph can reveal’.
The right-wing rag is a little late to the party. Skwawkbox revealed exclusively eleven months ago that Labour undertook no impact for any of its plans on vulnerable people, whether pensioners, the disabled, the poor, the ill or children.
Tragically, the revelation was correct and Labour has begun to implement its red-Tory austerity – supposedly to fix the blue-Tory austerity that wrecked the country – as soon as it was ushered into power by the fascist Reform ‘party’ despite receiving far fewer votes than in 2017 and even the supposed ‘disaster’ of 2019 under Corbyn.
And the party is even trying to cover up how many people the blue-Tory policies killed, presumably so its hands are freer to impose fresh misery and death without scrutiny – as if the UK’s ‘mainstream’ media does much scrutiny in the first place.
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Perhaps the rag and it’s readership have only just cottoned on that reeves claims to be a labour politician.
Because, in fairness, even I’m fooked if I can tell the difference.
Perhaps the resident gobshite would care to explain?
“Perhaps the resident gobshite would care to explain”
Which ain’t ever going to happen because it would require “TRG” leaving his fantasy bubble to actually interface with The Reality Based Community.
Such people don’t do evidence based inquiry. Like toddlers, they merely state conclusions based on their own pre-assumed deductions built on their own prejudices and subjective feelings.
You’d get more sense out of a goldfish.
True. But I’m clean out of magic mushrooms.
Looks like they are back pedalling on the pensioners attack. Late stage conscience development or damage limitation? You choose.
The lady in charge couldn’t handle a credit card. Still, anyone but the Tories…
We get to hear Two Tier kier later. Will he have said the opposite in the past once again?
Someone posed a good question:
What is the point of Labour?
Perhaps to police diverse working class and grassroots trade union militancy whilst accepting Right Wing Neo-Liberal capitalist parameters, pleasing the bosses, whilst tossing us a few crumbs?
The German Left hit the nail on the head when they had a name for a Blairite German Chancellor a few years ago and perhaps we can borrow this; Starmer & Reeves are “The Bosses Comrades.”
And if Reeves really believes managing a Government budget is like running an household economy then she truly is (as Rosa Luxemburg said of bourgeois politicians) “A political numbskull.”
Funny I don’t remember my family taxing family members and taxing the richer ones more. Don’t remember my family issuing billions of pounds worth of Govt bonds or electronically printing (Quantitative Easing) £80b as the Tories did just after Brexit and £1 trillion as previous Govt did to bail out the banks.
Govts can always find money eg for war – £3b a year for Ukraine, billions for arms for Israel.
And of course instead of Labour making the political choice of Austerity you could intervene with a Corbyn type programme to try transform a crumbling society including adopting things like Wealth taxes & public ownership etc. Solidarity.
Reeves just nicked her slogan from Thatchers shopping basket quote.
LATEST Labour scandal exposes REAL REASON for more austerity?
This is also relevant:
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/07/01/the-likely-labour-mps-who-lobbied-against-key-party-policies-amid-concerns-of-whole-new-raft-of-scandals/