Budget 2024: Carol Vorderman looks at the numbers | LBC

Ahead of The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's budget announcement on Wednesday, Carol Vorderman explains exactly why she hopes this is the final Conservative budget.
In true Vorderman style she has the facts, figures and statistics to support her reasoning, as she declares she 'does not trust the Tories' with her money.
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[@karenrock3864]

We desperately need legislation to criminalise MPs and media editors presenting false information to the electorate

[@mogznwaz]

Everyone thinks they’re the truthful ones and the other ones are the liars

[@maria8809ttt]

❤

[@1inchPunchBowl]

@@mogznwaz Facts don't give 2 s** if you think your right, I'm afraid.

[@mobsiesixsixsix9785]

@@1inchPunchBowl What are you jabbering about?

[@paulgibbons2320]

@@mogznwaz your mixing perspective with truth. If they say they want HS2 to reach Manchester an it doesn't. That's a lie. If they say Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. An it doesn't, That's a lie. If they say they respect the referendum result and spend 6 years trying to over turn it. That's a lie. One person is in the wrong in these situations. They could be held accountable.

[@ThomasKing19933]

The budget will involve the Tories making their friends richer, as usual.

[@chatham43]

@ThomasKing But if they didn't that would be one less thing for you to whinge about though!😊

[@ThomasKing19933]

​@@chatham43 You still going?, I forgot about you.

[@jaxcoss5790]

​@@ThomasKing19933😂😂😂😂😂

[@adrianobastardi]

Yep, that is typical of the nonsense, the absolute paranoid conspiracy fantasy many leftists believe.

[@chatham43]

@jax Great riposte jaxxy. Now go away and practice putting some words together. It's called spelling.😊

[@daveball137]

Don’t forget Hunt wrote a book on how to privatise the health service.

[@wendysimpson6395]

And then he got control of doing exactly that!

[@user-rt1rh9py4v]

The NHS is well past its use by date. It should be scrapped and money should not be thrown at it by each successive government in the hope of "saving" it. It is unsaveable, a bottomless barrel.

[@MrSirusDvirus]

After Blair tried thru the backdoor 👍

[@MrBizteck]

​@@MrSirusDvirus lol Labour on their WORST day couldn't do a percentage of the Damage this shower has done.

[@mogznwaz]

Are you aware that the health systems in the EU and elsewhere are largely a mix of public and private insurance??

[@claudiojunior9618]

How can they be allowed to lie so much ?

[@COUNTDOWNTOPOWER]

@@neut21 Because the media is corrupted and refuses to hold them to account and as we saw with Johnson, it's fine to lie in the house of Commons, but absolutely against the rules to stand up and call someone who has just told a barefaced lie a liar.

[@boota1979]

@claudiojunior9618 Because we allow it.

[@cupguin]

Reporters who don't challenge them don't help.

[@rosevivo9387]

Because this society is based on lie😂

[@theghostoftom]

They have lived their entire lives knowing that the rules are things for other, lesser people.

[@allip4226]

I wouldn’t trust the Tories to run a raffle, let alone the country.

[@rosevivo9387]

😂😂😂

[@PatrickDigney]

You ain't seen nothing yet..just wait till labour gets in 😱

[@IMBlakeley]

@user-zk9xe3wm3v I do. National debt was under 50% of todays, There were nearly 25,000 more coppers than there are today 60,0000+ more nurse and 25,000+ more Doctors and to cap it all average wages were around 1/3 higher in real terms than they are now.

[@lobintool]

Oh drat, you nicked my reply!

[@bobharrison4711]

Imagine if Starmer "took the reins"! We're all doomed if he ever does.

[@bryanevans8220]

Times are bad and British Gas profits increase 10 Fold ?

[@philipcochran1972]

But how will rich people cope if they can't buy a bigger yacht? Poor people are so inconsiderate.

[@jasonleung8845]

I trust they will enrich themselves while squandering the rest!

[@monkeyboy8424]

Whatever happens, rest assured billionaire Ritchie Sunak and his privileged government will all keep very warm and eat extremely well.

[@BB-ul3xh]

Can you please explain why we want those that run the country to be struggling financially?

[@monkeyboy8424]

@@BB-ul3xh "run the country".....lol

[@williamford8027]

got invevestmements in moderna. in a hegefund in the caymanns. tax?

[@TheGalifrey]

@@BB-ul3xh So they make policies that benefit people in the same position maybe? SO they understand the position of millions of their voters maybe?

[@simonlevett4776]

So will all members of the House of Commons.

[@carolstimpson3799]

I don’t trust the Tories with anything.

[@user-xd6gi4wn1y]

I don't trust Labour with anything

[@Ayeright.]

​@@user-xd6gi4wn1yYour comment might have made more sense if you'd finished it off with the word 'either'?

[@MiaSummer-cm6cy]

@@Ayeright.check your comment first

[@Ayeright.]

@@MiaSummer-cm6cy Hee, Hee, I hadn't noticed??? 😁😁😁

[@simonlevett4776]

And all the other party's are so much more trustworthy are they ?

[@chriswills9437]

Gotta run water, rail, electricity, telecoms, gas more efficiently. Oh wait they are privatised already.

[@MaxVliet]

They're gonna privatise the government next... Oh wait, it's already run by billionaires.

[@kanedNunable]

renationalise them all.

[@rickkarsan4491]

We cant, the cost to the taxpayer to buy them back would be astronomical.

[@maria8809ttt]

Yes we can if we choose to.

[@chriswills9437]

@@maria8809ttt What you could do is trash the water share price through environmental regulation and buy them back cheap. The rail franchises will end. Gas and electricity are more problematic.

[@alex_macieira]

If there's one thing you can't dispute this woman on, it's her maths. I trust her way more than 14 years of these corrupt business men running the country.

[@chatham43]

@alex It's not maths..its arithmetic..and that's not rocket science!😊

[@gordoncharles741]

@@chatham43 It's amazing that the Tories can't even get the 'arithmetic' bit right, considering their expensive private educations!

[@matty7758]

​@@gordoncharles741they're getting it right just not for the greater public

[@thegoat11111]

@@chatham43Tell that to Liz Truss! 😉

[@Zalley]

I trust her maths, but I don’t trust her to see major threats that this country faces. She seems so concentrated on Tory financial scandals (bad as they are) that she isn’t paying attention to bigger much more consequential problems. Threats that will have much bigger consequences for us all, societal and financial, than any Tory PPE type scandals etc.

[@lokischildren7862]

I trust no Tory

[@mitchellstone-bc5fx]

who is there to trust ?

[@viperzvapourz4738]

​@@mitchellstone-bc5fxAnybody other than tories.

[@mitchellstone-bc5fx]

@@viperzvapourz4738 so no real change then either way is it .

[@riboid]

@@viperzvapourz4738 I would doubt that.

[@viperzvapourz4738]

@@ritch195 A pair of flip flops would actually be miles better than this lot.

[@DrunkDelilahBrewery]

How can he claim the reduction in Interest Rates and not be responsible for raising them...they really are a joke.

[@kanedNunable]

they know tory voters cant do basic maths.

[@_permanence]

Hunt trained as an English teacher…. And now he’s in charge of the country’s finances

[@janetmalcolm6191]

Rishy should get him a few maths lessons to help him. Worrying.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

The tories are economically illiterate and this needs to be pointed out at every opptunity this is an ideology problem, not just a problem with the current government.

[@AKHill-gj2uy]

They are. Labour under Starmer espouse the same (failed) supply side economic theory the Tories do.

[@chongxina8288]

It’s laughable that you think so. 😂 They know exactly what they’re doing. It’s totally purposeful. I’ll give you a clue, Labour are the same. 💁🏼‍♂️

[@Alex-cw3rz]

@@AKHill-gj2uy no he doesn't he isn't perfect but what you just said is factually inaccurate

[@Alex-cw3rz]

@@chongxina8288 If labour are the same why was economic growth twice what it was under the current tories... Why is it that Gordon Brown someone with an economics degree, keeps on pointing out that what the Conservatives are doing is economically nonsencial.

[@kanedNunable]

@@chongxina8288 yeah it was labour who privatised everything wasnt it? oh it was all the tories. simp elsewhere

[@garybown2682]

'We've got to learn to run public services more efficiently', seriously, who's been running them for the past 14 years!

[@janetmalcolm6191]

14 years not long enough for Tories to learn to run anything! Clueless all of them.Eton teaches them stocks and shares but everyday stuff is a no.

[@Rachel_M_]

_"Do you trust the tories with your money?"_ What money???

[@buntyjoy1800]

Cos Hunt did so well with the NHS.

[@cmeonthemove]

I've never trusted the Tories, and never will. The first four letters of Conservative Party is no coincidence.

[@lestrem11]

Fair enough, it makes you wonder why Labour offer nothing different.

[@Gary-le7dz]

So take us through labour policy that’s exactly the same as the Tory’s

[@breamoreboy]

As someone who was raised Tory, I now think that CCHQ stands for Corrupt Conservative Head Quarters.

[@vincehammond1282]

@@lestrem11 I have to say the bar has been set so low , that any governance is an improvement over the abuse of power for self interest we currently have , however if you want to stick to a plan that is not written down anywhere can’t be scrutinised and exist solely in the head of a hedge fund managers figment of imagination. I suggest you read the labour plans which are documented.

[@Questioneverythingg730]

@@lestrem11illusion of choice. If you don’t know this by now your education system worked as planned on you.

[@michaelmouse4024]

I wouldn't trust the Torys to take the dog for a walk

[@mlguy8376]

Trust them to put two addresses down as their home, and then put the council home they lived in up for sale (after being rented out) with a tidy profit.

[@rogerfreeman7140]

​@@mlguy8376 now check out what Angela Rayner did with her Right to Buy..

[@user-xd6gi4wn1y]

@@mlguy8376Do you mean Angela Rayner the Labour MP

[@johnclegg4993]

Vote Labour then and find out . . It makes no difference.

[@mlguy8376]

@@user-xd6gi4wn1y ding ding ding - just I find it laughable that we lump all Tories together , we should do the same with Labour right..

[@rogerdeacon5878]

It called corruption..

[@chongxina8288]

Bingo, finally someone understands this. And it’s not a Tory problem.

[@anthonylloyd8000]

Hunt saved 100,000 not paying stamp duty.

[@MrSzwarz]

I stopped trusting this government, and the country. The UK is lost forever.

[@kanedNunable]

never trust a tory

[@MaxVliet]

Unless we take it back.

[@kinggeoffrey3801]

Never trust any government.

[@liamholt2618]

It will take much more than 14 years of the tories to bring down Britain. They have dealt the nations economy a significant blow but it's not like us brits haven't bounced back from the brink before, It may take some time to get back to our feet but I refuse to believe this is enough to topple a nation that has pulled itself through crisis after crisis for millennia.

[@davidcoard1978]

The Labour Party has a long history of not fullfilling its promises. No political party seems able to improve the U.K's economy

[@Alex-cw3rz]

In 1954 the UK economy was 66% larger than France in 1970s it was smaller, this is because frances government invested in it's country and ours didn't it claimed that less government would increase economic growth yet it dropped time and time again.

[@AKHill-gj2uy]

Marshall Plan. France received larger reconstruction money as a % of GDP.

[@MaxVliet]

@@AKHill-gj2uy France also had considerably more to rebuild...

[@kanedNunable]

france also didnt privatise everything in sight.

[@IMBlakeley]

@@AKHill-gj2uySo did the UK, the UK spent the aid after WW2 on propping up the empire pretending to still be a relevant world power rather than rebuilding. BTW UK got the highest amount from the Marshall plan of all the nations to receive that aid.

[@chrisj9700]

@@IMBlakeley how was the empire propped up when it was dismantled after the war? India became independent in 1947.

[@Lynn.hot.legs.peters]

Long term ? Isn't 14 year's long enough !

[@alexanderstefanov6474]

I wouldn't trust them to look after a plant

[@macjim]

It may be at 4% but… prices are still going up and everything is more expensive than before the crisis!

[@kanedNunable]

its still going up, just not as fast. inflation needs to be negative to go down. too many dont grasp this basic fact

[@sarahbarrett1247]

We've all had enough. Enough of the corruption and siphoning our money 😡

[@peterkirby2771]

Rishi Sunak used a RAF jet to travel from Aberdeen to make his speech on Friday at tax payers money and as for the war in Ukraine his wife gets 8 million every year from a company still operating in Moscow Russia

[@andrewwalker3312]

Personally I'm Watching the inheritance tax bracket it's been on the Tory wishlist a long time forget the " we are all in together" bollax, it's the sheriff of nottingham show everytime with the tories

[@dianeglanville]

tories only in it for themselves and mates

[@tommyi6667]

Why are people surprised??

[@Aco747lyte]

We don't need tax / National Insurance cuts - the country's electorate need pay rises!

[@AKHill-gj2uy]

Boom! Nailed it. Higher tax revenues, a slow on wealth inequality, and an increase in living standards - yet no party is campaigning on it.

[@kanedNunable]

tax top earners more. tax low earners less.

[@redeyejedi83]

​@@kanedNunable 100% raise the bottom threshold and lower the top one.

[@Gashinshoutan2009]

Even if the wages go up, the tax thresholds are frozen until 2028 so people would experience the fiscal drag by being further taxed in the higher tax band bracket.

[@AKHill-gj2uy]

@@Gashinshoutan2009 Are taxes at 100% of income? If not raising wages above inflation both increases tax revenue and leaves people better off.

[@bigdaz7272]

I think its time for the Tories to change how they calculate GDP to make it _appear_ better. Ooops they already did. How about changing how excess Deaths are measured then? Ooops they already done that one too. How about changing how they measure Inflation then, surely that will make people feel better? Ooops sorry they already did that one too. Guess they could always take 1% off National Insurance and make a bit song and dance about it but claw it back by freezing the personal Tax Allowance until 2028 though?? Oooops they already done that one. I wonder what CON are they gonna try next?

[@AKHill-gj2uy]

Any increase in GDP only benefits the top 10%. Yet both the Tories and Labour trot out the mantra of "Growth".

[@user-im8us6sg5d]

They Con the people that a cut in Inheritance tax will benefit everybody,when it only benefits the top 4% of the population ☹️

[@Nameless.Hermit]

I don't trust either of the main parties anymore. Guy Fawkes had the right idea.

[@jaxcoss5790]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kevingrant7098]

When people say that I think they are going to vote reform UK, but are too embarrassed to say so

[@robo3715]

1997 - 2010 was way better than 2010 - now

[@Nameless.Hermit]

@@robo3715 agreed

[@simonlevett4776]

Didn't get him very far, sadly.

[@Toodle.Pipp001]

Couldn't hear a word hunt said, my bs detector was blaring.

[@user-gd6qm9qs6n]

That word "efficiently" means more austerity usually and more reductions to public services.

[@_permanence]

Yes. It’s been the Tories’ and Hunt’s approach for decades and look where we are

[@iainmunro438]

They’ve had 14 years to make public services more efficient? 😂

[@Gamer_Sebby]

I want the salary of MPs halving, this would produce £13m per year and should be evenly distributed to reputable and effective homeless charities up and down the UK. It is a privilege to chosen to represent the people of your constituency and money should not be the main driver.

[@kerrypeters4724]

According to government homeless is a life style choice I slept rough on of 20 yrs it's definitely not a choice

[@jezlawrence720]

The more they cut, the less efficient things get. Public servants don't WANT to stop doing things they know are important, and central government are very careful never to say what they think SHOULD be cut, so they can blame departments and local authorities for bad decisions and label them as resistant or playing politics. And that's right: what should be cut IS a political decision, and public sector shouldn't be making that decision. And they don't want to - that's not why they're there. But the political class provide only a facsimile of policy to keep things nice and vague to run as cover for themselves. By providing only a poor facsimile of policies and abdicating their responsibility for making detailed policy, they get to blame the people who are meant to be neutral for having to make the decision, and then when front line public sector workers run themselves into the ground trying to 'do more with less', they're then accused of being inefficient. And if they protest that their pay and conditions and pensions are not sufficient compensation for that treatment, suddenly they *all* (rather than vanishingly few now) have 'gold plated pensions' (handily distracting everyone else into being jealous of those lucky few civil servants instead of being very very angry that their own pensions are entirely inadequate and insisting they deserve better). And the public fall for it again and again. Public sector workers are not the public's enemy. Lies, obfuscation and abdication, if not straightforward dereliction, of political responsibility are.

[@prestigepea1235]

Less staff paid lower wages leads to massive losses in fraud and error, as the pressure to just clear cases without proper scrutiny increases exponentially

[@jezlawrence720]

@@prestigepea1235 thanks for the tldr, nicely summarised :)

[@lindaalden2867]

We much vote them out in the next general election

[@brianwilcock3980]

The only people they have looked after is there selves

[@Alex-cw3rz]

The average disposable income has dropped by £10,000 since 2010.

[@Sam_Green____4114]

LIES !

[@Gary-le7dz]

NO THE TRUTH Britain’s stagnant economy has cost workers more than £10,000 a year in lost wages, according to a think tank that warned the UK will remain stuck in a low growth trap without radical reform. The Resolution Foundation described 15 years of flatlining earnings as a “disaster” for the world’s sixth largest economy, pushing the UK into relative decline compared with other rich nations.

[@chrisj9700]

@@Gary-le7dz productivity has long been stagnant for decades. Businesses are too addicted to cheap foreign labour the treasury keep believing more immigrants will grow the economy but we’ve ended up poorer per capita. Businesses need to be incentivised to invest in productivity improvements rather than to hire cheap foreign labour.

[@Gary-le7dz]

Wages under labour went up 16% , Tory’s in 14 years 1% in real Tey As for growth labour on average achieved 2.4% per year growth Tory’s on average 1.3% Agree labour are not great but Tory’s are useless the nhs is far far worse waiting lists treatments etc … debt thru the roof 2700 billion 98% gdp ( was 880 billion and 52%) Why do you think hunt has no room for anything because this country is far far worse

[@chrisj9700]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@Gary-le7dz New Labour copied conservative economics policies in their first term and enjoyed a booming global economy. The NHS has long been unproductive but there’s no incentive for the public sector to innovate because the unions will strike in protest over any job losses. I’d rather have a public private hybrid system like many European countries have. The conservatives have implemented austerity to reduce the budget deficit. I’d rather the deficit was cut further to achieve a budget surplus but labour opposed measures to cut the deficit. Debt also went up because of covid and infrastructure projects like HS2, those are capital investments which don’t fall under austerity as austerity is about cutting day to day spending. There’s no more money because Covid led to a surge in borrowing. The cost of servicing debt is going up thanks to inflation and a quarter of government debt is made up of index liked gilts. We can’t continue borrowing more money and no party has a serious plan to cut the deficit.

[@matthewbaker7069]

Vorderman who advertises equity release doesn't trust someone with her money 😂

[@iainmunro438]

Mmm fair point.

[@Gph0367]

Keep up the amazing work Carol👍

[@leckstar100x9]

Excellent addition to LBC ❤

[@ianmuir3640]

I wouldn’t trust Hunt even if he wasn’t in the government he’s such a smug person

[@hogyndrwg6253]

You don’t trust the Tories with your money? This can only apply to those who have any!

[@paulmcgrath3248]

That austerity plan didnt work out then

[@janetmalcolm6191]

They have continued austerity for 14 years though robbing money from things. No wonder nothing is able to run properly. Where has the increase gone people have paid? They start things then just drop them.

[@ElemennoP]

I wouldn't trust them with their own money..🙄😂

[@buztur1064]

Left hand steals from the right hand😂😂

[@daveball137]

They’ve already started on the efficiency of public services. Hunt, a previous health minister who deprived the health service of PPE should know better. Actually he does know, he’s just a propagandist.

[@carlosfandango6255]

Go through the money wasted by the Tories. No that's scary.

[@MaxVliet]

If the GDP grew by 1% but we had 11% inflation, doesn't than mean we are in a recession?

[@kanedNunable]

yes we are. wonderful eh? /s

[@ianmclean284]

Carol it’s folk like you we need as chancellor. You’re wasted on the radio . Oh and Martin Lewis as prime minister 😊😊😊😊

[@chatham43]

@ian Martin as Exchequer certainly. Carol should stick to flogging life insurance!

[@lestrem11]

Maybe, but although our mp’s appear mad the likes of Lewis actual admit to mental health issues.🤪

[@janetmalcolm6191]

Great pairing!

[@DavidJohnson-yg8qm]

I can concur Carol, my politics has changed as I feel like I have been gaslighted especially in the last 8 years.

[@randomname3109]

no more Tories, no more Labour, time for a government that cares about the people

[@chatham43]

True. But any suggestions?

[@KevinWilliams-hm9ct]

And who would that be?

[@raymondmoir478]

Who might that be

[@misterfischer2177]

Oh and don't forget to mention Carol that you can hand your house over to an equity release company (loan sharks) for a fraction of it's value and leave your children with nothing to inherit.

[@shaunmckinney396]

Thanks Carol,

[@mistycat1954]

I wouldn't trust any MP with anyones money .

[@stevensephton367]

Tax billionaires out of existence.

[@SuperTreemendus]

The PM is a billionaire.

[@Xenophaige_reads]

Nearly, but not quite. Give it a few years in America though.

[@chrisj9700]

Norway imposed a wealth tax on billionaires and they responded by relocating to Switzerland.

[@ignoranceisbliss6259]

​@@chrisj9700this is a bit of a misconception spread by other millionaires. About 23 millionaires left Norway, but they were already dodging taxes, so the country lost nothing.

[@kanedNunable]

@@SuperTreemendus his father in law is. tho he will be close soon with how much money hes taken from us.

[@debbiewatts5377]

I agree with you carol

[@MartyJackson]

You know the moment another party get into power, the Tories will instantly blame them for everything going wrong (despite our country’s mess being the fault of the Tories).

[@peter0010]

Yeah, and give it a year and people will be saying how lovely it was under the Tories. People have short term memories, unfortunately. I have lived my entire adult life under a Tory government, and for my generation, everything just feels hopeless.

[@paulwright9106]

Listen to what the CHAIR of the OBR says about this government !!!!

[@paulbird3235]

"Tax cut's", win-win.If it get's them back into power thats a result. if NOT it leaves a labour party with an hole in their finances, so what do they do? take the tax cuts back?.

[@catherinemartin6258]

The budget won’t do nothing for working people as usual.

[@themaltsters]

She should stick to sums

[@michaeloshea5505]

Luckily no one who voted for the Tory in the red wall will never need to use an NHS hospital, not even for there ageing parents or their kids. They're just lucky like that.

[@kanedNunable]

yeah blame the north when its usually southerners voting tory....

[@michaeloshea5505]

@@kanedNunable But that's the thing, isn't it. southerners know that they will be looked after by the Tories, they can take that to the bank.

[@julespowell4896]

Well done Carol. Keep speaking up for us.

[@glowwurm9365]

I. Going to have to start listening to Carols show..

[@ronstriebig2749]

Tories go and never darken our doors again

[@thethinkingcatakaneonormie3527]

What is the funniest thing is how hunt looks guilty all the time every public appearance he looks like he's stole something and has it still in his pocket I've never trusted anything he's said.

[@rayakusu-fosterB]

"BY DEFINATION, WE'LL AWAYS VEER CONSERVATIVE " ❤🇬🇧❤

[@leightonolsson4846]

Well said Carol

[@geosmith3436]

The Tories couldn’t run a bath.

[@SimonSmith-yd6tt]

Brilliant take down of Hunt's unicorns and rainbows Budget plans Carol Total madness to cut public services past the bone.

[@pauldawson7776]

The state of northern towns & cities with 14 years of zero funding is a total disgrace

[@jimfromleicester897]

We, as a coutry have been broken by the Conservatives with an "F".

[@ajdesmond9545]

If anybody knows her numbers, that’s Carol❤️👌

[@roaldknutsen1924]

More efficiently equals more cuts - Thatcher called it the same as did Major. And, of course, more privatisation.

[@kanedNunable]

NHS next if they win. eeek.

[@jamiesmith27]

All Tories should be in prison for what they have done

[@user-sd3ik9rt6d]

Eyes down for Trussenonics 2.0

[@Indyghurl]

So glad that English people are waking up to what Scots have thought and felt for decades.

[@lillipupsmum8820]

The same people who claimed that bringing down inflation was not something they could do last year. Now are claiming a year later that it is completely down to them that inflation is down.

[@audreymcgready4329]

Unemployment might be low but people are working for poverty wages.

[@ChrisKeziahHyde]

I don't trust any politician to use my money responsibly but I also know that I have no power to change that. Voting isn't a power, politicians can just lie their way to power. The people have no ways to truly get politicians to change.

[@kanedNunable]

derp. we almost had corbyn. stop simping for the tories.

[@paulshuttleworth5383]

This is democracy my friend, at least communism doesn’t pretend to be anything it isn’t.

[@ChrisKeziahHyde]

@@kanedNunable you assume I'm simping for the Tories? I don't like either side 😂 it sounds like a bit of projection as you're the one mentioning Corbyn. I'm just pointing out the obvious, neither side use our taxes responsibly, they just give it to their mates.

[@Silver-st2zq]

Blue or Red Tories? neither for me.

[@kanedNunable]

you seem to forget the tories are now brownshirts.

[@jurakerleha]

Tax cuts for rich people and for Tory supporters and donors and for us peasants they will throw us more culture wars and more suffering and higher prices.. We need GE ASAP, they will do more damage before GE, 😢

[@kanedNunable]

scorched earth in full swing. salting the land before they lose.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Brilliant Carol

[@chatham43]

Brilliant? You need a dictionary!😊

[@jaxcoss5790]

​@@chatham43You obviously do! 😂😂😂😂

[@robster6868]

Give her nick ferraris slot,we need an honest breakfast time show.

[@wendysimpson6395]

Got to that point the morning I woke up to find that Brexit was going ahead. Thanks Carol for calling them out.

[@scottscott232]

I've always liked Carol and her incredible talent with numbers and mathematics.

[@bobharrison4711]

Advertising Equity Release and Loan Sharks tells you all you need to know about Vords.

[@marktony9737]

Loads of people saying they don't trust the tories. Well, there were plenty who did in 2019!

[@musicman5075]

Running public services "efficiently"? we all know what that means. Hunt said we could see his record in government. We can look back specifically at his track record running the NHS so see what improving "efficiency" means to Mr *unt and where it leaves ordinary people who cant afford private health insurance.

[@Rick-S-70]

Carol loved your start to the show and love you you have got them sussed ...simple keep it up

[@reconn9056]

And you'd trust labour with our money? Seriously?

[@deanl1108]

Yes I do

[@philthrelfall5294]

Compared to this dishonest, corrupt, incompetent shower, I'd trust Mr Blobby, or Larry the Cat more!?

[@Mikey72182]

*The UK economy in 2010 under Gordon Brown was in a far better state, it's the 14 years of Tory rule that have destroyed a growing economy under Labour. Stop peddling misinformation* 🇬🇧🇪🇺

[@kanedNunable]

tories have tripled the debt labour left. can you count?

[@comanchio1976]

I wouldn't trust them to look after a budgie

[@Pilky-Bs2Mc]

I wouldn't trust the Tories with a petty cash box

[@MiltonMoJunction]

Why not call this program a party political broadcast on behalf of the liebour party.

[@DrRinse]

I wish I could have had a mum like Carol ❤

[@user-nb6bj5ep8e]

Tend to agree with you Carol, but do you seriously trust Labour

[@RichardSpain-lz9cf]

How much has greed in parliament risen?