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there will be no more tax rises, i won't be coming back for more, we've fixed the foundations. this budget was an investment for growth with public finances on a firm footing. half the cbi attending have publicly stated they will be “letting staff go.”

she keeps repeating herself time and time again with those well rehe****d soundbites.

she stated she won't be coming back for more. if that's true there's a new chancellor on the way. so brace yourself everyone, we know what to expect.

the applause was deafening, one bloke started clapping but after all the other delegates looked at him he soon stopped.

what a $hit show.

“A complete waste of time.”

That's as maybe mick-b, but it brings it home what a clueless bunch we have ended up with.

We know this lot will not call an election, they will go the full term, come what may.

Just look at your counterpart's in the US. They've had a senile president in charge since his inauguration. He started with a disastrous I'll thought-out withdrawal from Afghanistan and it went all downhill from then.

Clueless.

Remind you of anyone?

As labour entered Downing street on the crest of a wave, with the promise of growth being a central part of this new administration. 33% of all voters quickly found to their horror the reality of what they had done.

Some incompetent, inexperienced and certainly misguided individuals are vainly hanging on to the socialist dream which has quickly turned into a nightmare for many. Alas, history shows how this is going to end.

Don't expect growth anytime soon.

LONDON (Reuters) - British employers have been caught off guard by a 25 billion pound ($31 billion) tax rise at last month's budget and plan to cut training, investment and jobs in response, the Confederation of British Industry said before its annual conference on Monday.

The CBI said a survey of its members showed 61% viewed Britain as a less attractive place to invest and nearly half intended to reduce staffing levels or scale back pay rises after a large increase in employers' social security payments.

"The rise in National Insurance and the stark lowering of the threshold, caught us all off guard. Set alongside the expansion and rise of the National Living Wage ... and the potential cost of the Employment Rights Bill changes ... they put a heavy burden on business," CBI Chief Executive Rain Newton-Smith said.

The CBI's complaint comes amid broader signs of an economic slowdown in Britain in the run-up to and after the budget.

Finance minister Rachel Reeves raised taxes by 40 billion pounds overall in the Labour Party's first budget in 14 years, to fund higher spending on public services and fill what she said was (as yet unproven) a 22 billion pound hole left by the last government.

"Tax rises like this must never again be simply done to business," Newton-Smith said.

After the budget, Reeves told lawmakers she did not expect to need to raise further to pay for more spending by government departments. But Britain's budget watchdog judged Reeves had left little room to absorb any increase in government borrowing costs without either raising taxes or missing her goal to reduce debt.

The big rises in national insurance and the minimum wage particularly hurts CBI members such as big retailers and hospitality chains who employ many low-paid part-time staff.

Newton-Smith said greater economic stability under Labour was not enough on its own to boost growth, as reduced profits directly hit businesses' ability and willingness to invest.

"Profit's not a bad thing.  It's not a dirty word," she said.

Britain has low investment by international standards and many economists see this as a key cause of its weaker productivity compared to the United States, Germany and France.”

“Please give me a bit more credit..."recruited "!!

How patronising and misogynistic”

Laura.

If you believe I'm superior to you that is not my concern, as for misogynistic, that old chestnut has been played too many times. I never even thought about your ‘orientation.’ Next I'll be called ra c ist another favourite trope of the left.

I believe recruit was the appropriate word in reply to STP, he comes across as desperate for views similar to his own on this BB and was pleading with you to carry on.

Btw, no response from SB, another plea for support.

ie assistance, help, support, promote, in short recruit for more aligned views.

“SB,don't be a stranger on this forum!”

“SB,don't be a stranger on this forum!”

What STP means is we're losing the argument with these idiots Starmer and Reeves.

I've only got loopy and 901 to help me, so we need another left leaning europhile.

In short, there's too many anti government peeps and they're correct, this government is clueless but I can't admit it, not now.

Update; this morning desperate STP trying to recruit Laura. 😂

From last night....

“Starmer must navigate this complex situation carefully, balancing competing interests without alienating any side.”

SB….

Oops. Starmer has just alienated the US by agreeing with the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu, even though the home secretary can't say if he will be arrested if he steps on UK soil. Again no responsibility.

“This woman needs to be removed from office and prosecuted for her lies on her CV.”

Gate.

“In June the chief Constable of Northampton was sacked for misrepresenting his CV, and just last month Tanya Nasir the nurse was imprisoned for 5 years for doing the same.”

Reeves used her original lying CV to get selected as a labour MP. She's used it so many times since she actually believed it….. until now.

265 posts yesterday and not even finals day.

On a day the FTSE advanced some 112 points and Lloyds went in reverse.

Lloyds and finance related posts 5%, the rest, boilers, heat pumps and Brexit.

Just saying.

However, Norway opts for hydroelectricity. I wonder why...

Best look at the size of Norway, the population and the geology for your answers.

Two Jags Lord Prescott is a gonna. The man who spent his life battling against the privileged in the house of lords.

P.s. he had a few Lloyds shares tucked away, hehe.

“I would not trust Farage with a packet of pork scratchings never mind our country.”

A901, if ever he got there, the establishment would make him more accountable than Starmer and his cohorts.

“There are pressures on the car industry worldwide which has absolutely NOTHING to do with Labour or Starmer.”

STP

Oh yeah, would that be 14 years of pressure?

Just seen your post LR.

G13B

“Delivering 1.5m homes”

Just another round number plucked out of thin air to con the gullible. The likes of STP, DCB, Loopyloo, et al fell for it.

STP DCB

“LeeRex, just read the forum.!”

Just read it, FFS, you're never off it. Get a job Walter. It's clear to all, you're just a waster.

Ditto re: house builder shares 88.

Keir Starmer, ever eager to rub shoulders with communist Xi Jinping, woke up to a grim reminder of just who he’s trying to make friends with. Hours after the Prime Minister sat down with the Chinese Communist Party leader, news broke of Hong Kong’s brutal crackdown: Dozens of lawyers, journalists, activists, and democratic politicians slapped with prison sentences stretching up to ten years. For simply trying to exercise democratic freedoms.

Starmer's already emulated

Xi.

It’s more grim reading for Chancellor Reeves, as inflation climbs above the Bank of England’s 2% target this month. According to the ONS, the consumer prices index (CPI) rose to 2.3% in October. A stronger surge than expected…

The spike is mainly a result of the energy price cap hike, which led to increased costs for gas and electricity. Though inflation isn’t looking to fall by the end of the year. Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride warned that “official forecasts stat[ing] these figures are not expected to improve. Labour’s Budget will push up inflation and mortgage rates.” ‘Working people’ paying the price."

Speaking in Wales last week Starmer said he will defend every detail in the budget.

He then scarpered out the back door, lol.

Spineless git.