The economy has never crashed . We have not been in recession for many years. Maybe you’re confusing our country with Germany,,,,
A recession is generally recognised as a fall in GDP for two consecutive quarters. The last time this happened was in the autumn of 2020. However the Tories, and Liz Truss absolutely did crash the economy in only one month, the pound spiralled against all other currencies, the Bank of England had to intervene to prevent pension funds being raided, inflation went through the roof, soon followed by interest rates, and millions of people faced economic uncertainty.
How has Rishi Sunak moved away from right of centre policies, I’m curious..,
Sunak stands for nothing. However, his weakness has empowered numerous Tory MP's to move to the right and fuel more extreme views in the media and on our streets.
What caused the cost of living crisis, Ukraine or Covid? Or was it the evil Tories?
This had absolutely nothing to do with covid or Ukraine, and everything to do with disastrous economic policy led by an incompetent Prime Minister and Chancellor gambling on growth.
Was putting up billions and billions of bounce back loans and furlough payments ‘cruel’?
Furlough and business support was not cruel, Sending people to die in care homes, giving massively inflated contracts to friends and donors to provide inadequate PPE that cost lives, mismanaging the covid outbreak, talking about old people being expendable, and doing all this whilst partying at number 10 whilst the country were unable to be at the side of dying relatives was cruel, and they haven't stopped there.
What policies for economic growth do the Labour Party have? What policies do they have, period?
Google them, there are loads and you will soon be able to read these in far more detail when the parties publish their manifestos.
What is Starmer going to do about illegal
crossings ?
Go after the traffickers and work closer with France to stop crossing at the source. Streamline the immigration application process to prevent the huge build ups that leads to us spending millions every day housing migrants that could either be allowed to live, work and contribute to the UK economy or be returned to their countries of origin.
I’d say the failure to recognise the biological difference between the sexes was not as minor, politically, as some contributors seem to think.
Why is it important to you personally on how anyone else wishes to identify? Why is this such an issue politically?
Yes , I’ll admit, Truss’s tenure was a nightmare. But it was more than 2 years ago, and she’s been run out of town. She’s almost as much of an embarrassment as Corbyn is
Only this week there were key players in the Tory party rallying around Liz Truss and there are some who still see her as the person to lead the Tories after the inevitable election defeat. She is the voice of numerous think tanks that shape Tory policy and are themselves funded by numerous questionable sources.
Also 2 years may seem like a long time ago to you, but tens of thousands of mortgage holders are only now seeing the impact of coming off fixed rate deals and seeing their monthly payments double or more. Household bills have more than doubled. Inflation is coming down but this only means that things are increasing in price slower than they did a year ago, but they're still increasing.
I'm glad that you are insulated from the effects of Tory rule over the last few years. However, I would imagine that 90% of those who post on here have suffered some financial hardship as a direct result of action or inactions of our current Government.
Some may genuinely feel that things will not get better with Labour, but I'm now of the opinion that if I'm going to get mugged I may as well go for the one that apologises for doing it rather than the one laughing in my face whilst they take every last penny.
