Reeves „muss rechtzeitig für den Haushalt weitere Milliarden finden“.

There are not billions more to be found outside of taxing the wealthy more. The UK is cooked without at least substantial wealth redistribution because conservatives and Europhobics (primarily) have ran it into a corner and incubated a labour party that is conservative lite.

Edit: The UK has been on a downward spiral since it’s empire was decaying and even several great milestone achievements like the NHS can’t save it from its fate. The weather is depressing and likely to get only more turbulent, the housing is poor quality, the housing is expensive, the architecture is soul destroying by being brutalist (or existing in the long shadow of brutalism) or by being a neogothic construction that the government doesn’t even *really* give a fuck about conserving unless it’s royal property or it can make tourist money. It’s expensive to go literally anywhere. Private transport is normalised at the great expense of basic human liberties like walking and the environmental potential of public transport.

The promises made by economists decades ago that increasing automation and developed nation wealth would result in decreased monotonous labour for the average person never came true because corporate owners were never ever content. They wanted more and more and more, and people lulled into luxury goods more and more to justify it. Capitalism doesn’t *need* unnecessary creation, it *demands* it. The customer doesn’t want what they think they want, they want what they don’t even know exists yet because we’re going to invent it. Most of those luxury goods are now becoming stale and boring.

There’s fuck all to do as an adult even if you are participating well within the supposedly meritocratic framework set out for you. If you don’t want to go to the bar and smell of alcohol or wet dog, your options are to go and walk the fucking supermarket aisles at night or stay at home and watch the same gameshow you’ve been watching for 7 years. The theatres have trouble funding. The cinemas are becoming exorbitant. The bowling alleys are shutting down. The sports clubs are getting more expensive and more decadent in their facilities by the minute.

Public infrastructure is becoming increasingly drivel because the high streets themselves haven’t been repurposed yet even though it’s now clear that online commerce has won. In almost all places, the high street as it was once known is not coming back unless councils lower business rates to allow small, quaint sole traders to breath. They will simply fill out with more barbers, and dodgy looking takeaway spots, and vape shops, and American sweet shops.

An influential number of the population were convinced into throwing a tantrum about EU migrants picking vegetables even though it was obvious that the UK was too divorced from an earlier age, and had far too weak and accessible public transport links, to facilitate having British people pick the crops themselves.

The UK is cooked. It doesn’t have a national purpose but it feels like it really must do as a post-imperial state. Any semblance of traditionalist identity it *did* have to fall back on has effectively been coopted by nationalists or has collapsed into royalist decadence. The UK will not find a purpose again until it can stop viewing itself as the king of the world and start focussing on universal virtues and fitting back into Europe again.

The UK has to answer exactly what it wants from life, but the general public don’t even know their answer to that question because they’ve spent so long living in a state of cultivated pessimism. ‘It could be worse’, right?…

Generals are calling out. They need more men. Where are they all? At home trying to dry clothes in the rain. Who wants to die for this country?…

Has she tried ripping all the old sofas in Whitehall/number 10 to pieces?
I’d recommend something as big as the government to employ an accountant to keep records of where money is, they’ve done a good job with their own spreadsheet, but excel is just a toy really, they need a proper accounts system.

I’d heard that shadow ministers had access to the treasury experts anyway, but labour mustn’t have bothered during the 14 years.

Tax the super wealthy ❌

Close down 10 schools and cut over time benefits for police ✅

Calling it

Let’s see how many lives she can ruin for pennies saved this time

I’m sure this will be an excuse to crank up the already ridiculous amount of tax we already pay 🙄

Why is noone addressing the elephant in the room?

According to this thread, we should stop sending money to tackle climate change, stop housing asylum seekers, get immigrants out and other insane, nonsense right wing rhetoric.

Well, there is one major event which happened in 2016 which has cost the UK economy an absolute fuckton. Funnily enough, that was meant to “solve” the right wings weird obsession with immigration, but it actually increased immigration dramatically lmao. Instead it just made our economy smaller, as predicted.

Is everyone too scared to say it or something? Pathetic.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/14/brexit-has-sliced-5percent-off-uk-economic-growth-goldman-sachs-says.html

I agree with a lot of what’s being said on this thread but we must deal with the taboo topics too: we need more people in work, a healthier population and less take take take from the state.

Shouldn’t be too tricky, she just needs to [give her old bosses at the BofE a bell](https://neweconomics.org/2024/09/bank-of-englands-quantitative-tightening-could-cost-treasury-over-96bn-over-next-four-years) and then you chaps will call her a genius.

How about taxing the gouging supermarkets a bit more?

I heard energy companies and Tesco asking others made billions in profit by price gouging customers. There’s your billions.

Here’s a thought. Don’t send 11 billion pounds overseas on some dubious and spurious climate change crap.

We’ve just sent £11 billion to Africa in “climate aid”! How to you spaff money on something whilst trying to find more! This government has been awful since they got in.

I think the answer is:

1. Reduce the Personal Allowance and lower the threshold at which it starts tapering. People on £60k+ and not living in London honestly don’t need a £2k tax reduction.

2. Up dividend income and corporation taxes on large businesses.

3. Increase the Additional Rate tax band to 55% from 45%.