The Guardian experiences this morning that:
Ministers should urgently inject £4bn into English city corridor budgets to move off an “uncontrolled” monetary disaster that threatens to tug well-run councils out of business and put native companies in danger, a cross-party group of MPs has warned.
The levelling up, housing and communities committee mentioned authorities should act now to assist councils laid low with shrinking sources and the prices of rising demand for grownup social care, youngster safety, homelessness and particular academic wants provision.
I’ve little doubt that the MPs in query are proper. However that won’t change Tory coverage. And since Labour has accepted Tory sending limits, a basic election will change nothing both. Very clearly, the management of neither celebration cares about susceptible folks.
Coincidentally, I seen this information on the NHS price range from the King’s Fund, which is an NHS think-tank:
To outlive and meet the demand from demographic change in addition to fund the elevated prospects that expertise supplies, the NHS wants actual will increase in price range of round 4 per cent a yr. It’ll get none in a time of inflation, which means that actual cuts are deliberate.
These MHS cuts are what are funding Tory tax cuts.
Labour has accepted these tax cuts as a result of they’re saying they’ll dwell inside Tory plans and won’t increase taxes.
In different phrases, there may be the clearest proof, but once more, {that a} basic election won’t change something as a result of the management of neither celebration cares about susceptible folks, as sick folks at all times are.
None of that is crucial, in fact. The entire level of writing the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 has been to point out that huge sums can be found in extra taxes that may be structured to fall virtually fully on the wealthiest, while as much as £100 billion extra will be discovered for funding by restructuring tax incentivised financial savings.
We don’t have to impose distress on the UK.
We don’t have to destroy native democracy.
We don’t want to offer in to local weather change.
There may be greater than £8,000,000,000,000 of economic wealth within the UK (that is £8 trillion, or £8 million million). To faux there isn’t any cash left isn’t just absurd; in actual fact, it’s an outright lie.
It’s a lie used to assist the truth that our main politicians of each main events simply don’t care.
I actually have no idea for the way lengthy the nation will put up with this.
Hat tip to Roy Lilley for the hyperlink to the NHS information.
