Rachel Reeves is Wrong – There Was No Austerity Under the Tories. Just Look at These 10 Ridiculous Things Taxpayers Have Been Charged For
“There will be no return to austerity under this Labour Government” Rachel Reeves told Channel 4 yesterday, elaborating on the theme of her conference speech.
“Austerity was incredibly damaging for public services, yes, but also for our economic prospects because it chokes off the growth that is necessary to improve living standards and bring businesses to Britain so there’ll be no return to austerity,” she continued.
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A very useful article, thanks. It’s interesting to see that the promotion of anti-whiteism (a form of neo-racialism that pretends it’s not racialism) takes centre-stage in so many of these endeavours, and that in madleft-speak “decolonising” means the colonisation of white-majority countries. It’s all part of the attempt at the destruction of our cultural inheritance and civilisation. And we’re paying for these mixtures of New Dark Age nihilism and decadence!
If we can not afford to pay the Winter Fuel Allowance then bluntly none of the above and their like are affordable. These idiotic and mad psychbabble nonsenses are an aggregious insult to British taxpayers.
“Another resident’s “practice explores speculative narratives of multispecies engagement, liquid/marine contextualised African-descendent and re/indigenised communities, inform and live restorative ecologies through decolonial and eco-social liberatory practices”.”
These people cannot even write in English. I would appreciate listening to the author of this garbage explaining what this random collection of words really means.
What an appalling state our education sector has fallen to. Extremely, extremely embarrassing. Nationally embarrassing at that.
I would appreciate listening to the author of this garbage explaining what this random collection of words really means.
They don’t mean anything – hence the use of magical incantations to give the appearance of meaning: “African”, “re/indigenised”, “decolonial”.
I thought that reindigenised meant “return to sender” as it were.
Exactly – it really all means ‘have I included enough key words / victims to get some cash yet?’
They withdrew the Winter Fuel Allowance, but Labour have some new measures to help pensioners (1) Assisted dying (2) A one way ticket to Dignitas in Switzerland.
And then they will help them even more with big tax rises in the budget, plus ending rates relief for single pensioners, and then big rates rises to cover the cost of housing all the illegal immigrants.
Mmm…always best to check one’s own post when criticising someone else’s English. It’s ‘egregious’. (Will admit that a few years ago I didn’t have a clue what it meant, but for some reason it’s cropping up a lot nowadays!)
Aggressive and egregious = aggregious. I thought it was quite clever.
Incidentally, egregious means “remarkable”, “standing out from the flock”, and has come to mean “remarkably bad” only relatively recently. Not a huge gain for the language, I think.
A necessary and forgivable neologism.
Woof.
Huxley they’re trolling us, it’s all a complete deliberate pisstake.
We’ll see if they’re still smiling when the great day comes and the piano wire starts singing on the lampposts.
Not that my comments should in any way be interpreted as incitement to murderous violence or sedition.
Virtually all of this nonsense flourished under a Tory Government. I have no doubt they would do the same again.
To paraphrase somebody, it’s hard to read that without snicking off the safety catch of my Smith and wesson.
We are forgetting the Elephant in the room —NET ZERO. Estimated to cost in the trillions. We have no end of money for The Technocrats pet projects. The little people will just have to make do with “less of everything”, and I mean EVERYTHING. This buffoon Chancellor talking about “No Austerity” is PATHETIC. Net Zero is the biggest piece of austerity in human history.
And they say they’re not taxing the working man….Removal of Council Tax relief of single occupants is certainly a tax on the working man, along with Agenda 2030, and all the sh*t mentioned above.
That’s a great angle Reform should take – rebrand net zero as a form of
austerity… as you say, it will be
She’s not wrong, she’s LYING.
Billions to Ukraine. Probably billions in “foreign aid”. Billions on “covid”. And as varmint points out, billions/trillions on Nut Zero, NHS spending up in real terms IIRC.
Anyway, “austerity” (if it were ever to happen, which seems unlikely given the common addiction to the Nanny State) is simply the government/state not spending money it doesn’t have and applying judgement in choosing what the spend the money on – entirely normal behaviour and the proper function of any body trusted with spending other people’s money.
At some point time will be called on our debts and then the vultures will pounce: IMF, BIS, Blackrock, Vanguard and the rest. Is this the point at which they take our homes?
But you will “be happy”
Hammer. Nail.
You’ve got to hand it to them, they’ve found the perfect formula for doing absolutely nothing of value and getting paid for it. Professional “students”, acquiring degree after degree in utter nonsense while the country collapses.
Bang in a few talismanic words from the bingo sheet of woke crap and hey presto, a fist full of wonga. No allocation committee will ever refuse grants for “projects” whose abstracts feature some in-vogue buzz phrases.
One just has to laugh, at this point.
It is quite impressive, in a depressing way
https://order-order.com/2024/09/24/we-promise-to-support-pubs-labour-now-calling-last-orders-early/#comments
A report from Guido’s blog that Kneel is planning to close our pubs, as I predicted in 2020. Doubtless the Houses of Parliament will remain unaffected.
“From the towns all inns have been driven; from the villages most … Change your hearts, or you will lose your inns, and you will have deserved to have lost them. But when you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves – for you will have lost the last of England.”
Hilaire Beloc.
It is coming to pass. All government actions since March 2020 have been focused on the destruction of the country.
‘When you have lost your inns…you will have lost the last of England.’
I heard on Five Live yesterday that is some village they got together and bought the local Inn, and will be used by locals & farmers etc. I was thinking to myself, why should they have to do that. Just watch any old film and the land was full of them.
“£1,505,777.39 for Westminster University’s three-year study on LTNs – led by “Active Travel” experts”
This is just the tip of a massive iceberg. We’re spending tons of £millions on “active travel” locally, most of it going on cycleways from nowhere to nowhere, celebrated by the one-party-state brainwashed councillors who can’t see the irony of this waste whilst complaining of poor health and education outcomes because of “austerity”. What must be the cost of this across all parts of the UK? Thank you Grant Shaps.
The reason why porcelain was – at some point in time – so highly valued in Europe was because it was produced in some carefully guarded, secret way in China and could only be bought from there. At the time of August II. (of Saxony) it was commonly known as “white gold” and the Saxon state funded research by alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger to discover the secret of creating it.
People researching the whiteness of porcelain are thus probably better advised to start with asking why Chinese people invented white porcelain instead of coming up with (certainly entirely fictious) stories about “Nazi connections.”
Walling Londonistan off and leaving them to it would be a good start.
Speaking of London, normally I’d say that in this clip there’s obviously some sort of event going on and so perhaps this isn’t a true representation of what the city’s like as a whole. But then I remember the stats which show English white people are now a minority in their own capital, as well as other towns and cities, I think, but it’s ever the way. Over here there’s certain parts of Amsterdam or Brussels where you can easily walk down the street and be the sole white person. I think I was in Southall or Wembly years ago and that was my personal experience. It’s because it’s a case of ”birds of a feather flock together”, so some areas are totally taken over by other cultures. I’d argue this isn’t ‘diversity’ or ‘multiculturalism’, but rather a parallel society they’ve created. There’s a very large Turkish neighbourhood up the road from me. I don’t have any beef with these people but they do all seem to prefer being housed all together so as to form a community, but perhaps this is just human nature, after all; ”Meanwhile, in Baghdad, I’m just kidding; I mean London. Once a beacon of… Read more »
I worked at the MoD in Whitehall, commuting in to KingsX. In those days intimidation for donations for striking miners whilst an irritant, was lightyears away from Zombie Knives and the other ‘unmentionables’ you site Mogs. Alas, those halcyon days are gone, never to return.
A lot of these examples appear to be Art related, and so you would assume from the Arts budget. Considering all the moans about funding Galleries, museums, operas, orchestras, etc, it seems a lot of money is in my view wasted on stuff like this, and that’s if you agree with that Culture funding in the first place.
It’s nothing to do with art and everything to do with destruction of western civilization.
Woof.
HS2?
Conveniently forgetting that the Conservative Party’s 14 year reign laid the ground work for all this nonsense. Left or Right it is all the same global corporate fascism with a dash of cultural Marxism – wakey, wakey.
I often wonder when articles like this are published identifying specific individuals, whether they get to see the article and read the comments about them. This stuff of Government expenditure on Woke Waste makes my blood boil to infinity. I could write a thundering denunciation of these woke idiots getting all this money for promoting stupidity but it would guarantee a knock on my door for ‘hate speech’.
I did attend a university many years ago to study Electrical Engineering and there wasn’t any of this garbage being taught. I have noticed over my many years of living that whiteness appears everywhere. To the lady (oops misgendered it/think/them/AI bot), who teaches about porcelain I would politely (no four letter words) point out that toilets are made of that material – they are all dreadfully white – so she could use them in her teaching by sticking her head down a toilet for several hours and discover how ‘whiteness’ appears from that perspective. It makes sense doesn’t it?
Why the assertion that there was no austerity under the Tories? (I’m not an off-course leftie, believe me – I rather thought that austerity measures were a feature of the Tories’ time in power (- not that I give a damn, to be honest). Seriously, please disabuse me someone. illman.clive@gmail.com
Having read the introduction properly, I now understand the suggestion that there was not austerity under the Tories. Derrr.