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Tuesday, 9 July 2024

Two headlines



Blair predicts £50bn Labour tax raid

Sir Tony Blair has warned that Sir Keir Starmer will have to put up taxes by more than £50 billion unless he comes up with radical new ways to improve productivity.


Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers message to world: Britain is the place to do business

Rachel Reeves has trumpeted to the world that Britain is a “safe place to invest” after political turbulence of recent years discouraged some businesses from doing so.

7 comments:

DiscoveredJoys said...

Arguably Starmer has won Tony Blair's 'fourth term' as Prime Minister, just as poor Joe Biden won Barack Obama's 'third term'.

It would seem that resurrection is a feature of modern politics. I wonder if David Cameron will become the new Conservative leader? He's wet enough.

A K Haart said...

DJ - yes it's already looking like Blair's fourth term. Amoral bandwagon politics from the off doesn't look good.

Cameron's hat could be in the ring for a new Conservative leader. Interesting times unfortunately.

decnine said...

Safe Place to Invest is a big claim. Much of the rest of her speech was about "Crowding In" investment, a process otherwise called Arm Twisting.

Sam Vega said...

Instead of sending Barclaycard some money this month, I decided to sort things out by telling a group of wrong 'uns that some women can have penises, shedding crocodile tears over Gaza, and putting a little windmill in our front garden. Then I went out into the street and gave some doctors some money for not working.

All to no avail, however. Barclaycard just sent me another reminder, saying that I now have to pay more interest, and that things are going to get worse unless I pay.

A K Haart said...

decnine - and sometimes the arm twisting comes with huge sweeteners, the huge sweeteners being huge amounts of our money.

Sam - it's 180-degree-turn politics or "do as I do, not as I say".

Scrobs. said...

After only a few days, the news gets worse with that b*****d poking his nose in again.

As Sam says, Strummer's already a puppet, like O'Biden is!

A K Haart said...

Scrobs - didn't take long did it? Like vultures waiting for their turn at the carcass.