“Spending More On Lunatic Vanity Projects!” Reeves Confirms Change To Debt Rule As Budget Looms

Talk’s Alex Phillips and Russell Quirk discuss the UK’s upcoming Budget, criticising the Labour Party’s policies and financial mismangement.
It comes after Rachel Reeves signalled she would rewrite the way Government debt is measured.
Alex and Russell argue that Labour’s borrowing practices are unsustainable and negatively impact the economy.
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#economy #budget #tax #labour #politics

[@stuartregan1627]

No money for the pensioners on half the minimum wage but open chequebook for the Gold plated pensions of the civil service.

[@jamesbowskill362]

PLUS, dont forget, the £6Billion UK taxpayers give to the eurocrats in the EU annually until 2064 to PAY FOR THEIR GOLD PLATED PENSIONS, while they can ALL retire at age 55 on FULL SALARY,.....this is why the country is broken, because the UK 'civil service', who actually run this country, are trying to kill off this country as our punishment for NOT REMAINING, so these cretins cannot now join the eu gravy train, for 'services rendered' .

[@BunFight]

Which many of the pensioners will have.

[@susanmills4843]

@@BunFightI wish!

[@BunFight]

Can’t have it both ways. Gold plated pensions but poor pensioners?

[@Tara-xp6ki]

@@BunFight not me pal come visit our council estate

[@rgsnr8702]

starmer and harris are as dumb as each other and well out of their depth

[@philipanderson9434]

Dumb and dumber.

[@jenniferbarry5887]

no dumb, rather they are dangerous and devious.

[@n3xus667]

they both sound like they talk out the noses, as well as the arses

[@colinharrison5501]

Don.t forget lammy, pig sh.....t comes to mind,

[@Steve-ys1ig]

The fact that we have a someone in charge of our finances who had her credit card withdrawn because she was in so much debt with it says it all really.

[@suzesinger6762]

😮😅😂😂😂😂😂🎉

[@Timsvideochannel1]

I was taught that I could only spend what I had. Reeves is a perfect example of how not to run an economy, how have we ended up with a woman of such low intellect in a position where she can bankrupt the country? It is time to reform the way we choose candidates who are put forward to become MP's. Vote for change, vote for "Reform".

[@suzesinger6762]

Because....she is ... 'selected' ...like the rest of them. Bunch of Swab's Useless Idiots

[@brittonjames3335]

GB energy is no longer on the internet, page has taken down, FAILURE before it begin's

[@mogznwaz]

Because it was always a lie

[@JenniferBartlett-xi3tq]

If I write a shopping list and find I can't afford certain items I don't buy them.. not Rachel she just takes money from pensioners and a bit of money from the Russians.all good 😂😂😂😂😂

[@matthewharding-ew1ts]

The stark reality is this country is completely broke. We are still borrowing billions more every month just to pay the bills. We need a massive reset and start looking at making savings starting with net zero, overseas aid, etc, etc.

[@anfieldreds_1892]

you do realise most of the overseas aid is not for nothing right? hope you understand soft power and geo politics. its ultimately to benefit Britain whether political, military or economically. eg military - if we give you this amount, then you’ll allow us to put a base on your soil eg politically - if we give you this money, then hint hint, vote for us on this UN policy eg economically- if we give you this money then you need to ensure certain UK goods are imported tax free. or perhaps, you sell us your goods to UK businesses at rock bottom prices . Do you think cost of living is high? if countries starts to charge us real fair prices for goods eg. Oil, clothing, food etc. then is when you’ll really see real high prices. so my point is, most aid the UK give is not for nothing.

[@jennadecruz2472]

We need to STOP FUNDING THE ILLEGALS TO THE TUNE OF £9.5 million PER DAY.

[@garyowen4112]

whilst the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer it wont improve

[@stephendalton1648]

- we don't need to put bases on other country's soil - leave the UN🎉 - we should not economically exploit other countries

[@anfieldreds_1892]

@@stephendalton1648 and I agree with all those points, except UN. my point really was to try to clarify the misunderstanding that Britain (and other wealthy countries) hands out money to other countries when their own people are suffering. The aid is more an investment that Britain hopes to get back in multiples.

[@forthfarean]

Time to realise that we have a Socialist government, Lenin or Trotsky style.

[@janicevango5791]

Well, they’ve said on this channel before that Starmer attended a communist training camp in Czechoslovakia at some point. Nuff said.🙄

[@forthfarean]

Truss was sabotaged.

[@davidanness6180]

Wasting money on unproven crap ideas. absolute lunatics

[@SajidHussain-lj5mr]

Liebour . Enough said

[@keithmartland6463]

Labour couldn't run a pub!

[@thalesofmiletus2966]

Public Sector totally paid for by the private sector. These squirrels think they know better. Unfortunately they don’t.

[@BunFight]

Nobody needs the private sector but you all need the public sector.

[@brianhume-v1h]

2 Tier Stalin should correct his idea what a working class is, he said "working class is the people who leave home and go out to work" correct me if I'm wrong, but don't a lot people work from home, if so they are not working class.

[@graemejones9707]

He did expand on it last night, he said it doesn't include people who get extra income from shares or investments and the people he has in mind are those who can't write a cheque if something goes wrong. So the roughly 1 in 3 households with less than £100 in savings then. The Beer, burgers, bingo and Benidorm brigade who can never put a penny aside.

[@paulinetaylor1125]

❤MR STARMER LOVES GIVING OUR MONEY TO OTHER COUNTRIES BETTER OFF THAN OURS.

[@tech10k14]

How does the saying go? .... for evil to flourish...?

[@philipanderson9434]

Keep it guys and gals. Right behind you.

[@OllyO-gt8pg]

Scabs to the country

[@apartridge4582]

To think the drop in smoking is due to health messaging is very naive. It's simply getting too expensive to smoke!

[@jasminehobbs6188]

What is the use of health messaging when doctors bang on if something is wrong it's because your an ex smoker may as well tell you to carry on

[@deco2132]

I work and pay my taxes and if I wish to smoke or drink I will - the fact that smokes have gone so expensive has meant I now buy mine from a dodgy bloke at the cafe - £4 per pack they are. So really the government has done themselves over haven't they.

[@grahamdrummond2412]

I see that most people smoke imported dodgy fags of tobacco .

[@jennadecruz2472]

Oh come on!! Anyone who believes their bollocks needs to have their mind sorted.

[@stequality]

That's most of the public

[@MartinParsons-tr6wi]

​ Says the sweeping generalisation specialist @@stequality

[@spider5604]

they want the pubs gone, Muslims don't drink 😂

[@markmccallum8733]

Closing the pubs will also create more binge drinkers because when you drink in the house.....there's no last orders.

[@johndean1634]

Just a quick question. The OBR Black Hole Figures was used to Withdraw the Winter Fuel Allowance. Now they are using another One of the Four sets of Figures they use to Fiddle the Books. And by a Miracle they are now set to be able to Borrow 50 Billion for investment.

[@onlycheeseislife]

All they are doing is going 'we've got 900 billion in tax receipts. So well spend ALL that on 'day to day' services, and then borrow whatever we need and call that 'investment'. It's still debt...

[@bullet-catcherhohoho250]

When you see them with big smiles and hugging and clapping each other, you know they are wrong ons, and are in their own world.

[@ponnd]

Lets not give them our money so they can give too other country's

[@JohnCatto]

I get the impression that they are not entirely supportive of this government. I can't think of any one thing this government has done for us the British people since they sneaked into office.

[@lawrenceholden5716]

Lots of criminals they've released will like them, if that isn't lunacy I don't know what is, especially considering how serious a crime has to be these days for jail even to be considered.

[@clivejonathan8014]

We keep alternatively voting for the same two political parties and expecting different results

[@warren3567]

I have no words and actually shocked that labour think that. So anyone that owns a house or may have a little bit of extra money is not working people. So people on benefits and don't own a house are working people. There is no black hole but labour giving money to the unions and everybody else but its own citizens. Working people are people who work hard for there money to make a better life for themselves and there family in my opinion. To now get penalized for that and singled out is appalling. We can only take so much taxation till we the working people go bust. Really tired of hearing difficult decisions no its a choice.

[@CARLTULLY-tf5qu]

British pensioners who live in warm countries are still going to get the winter fuel allowance. Hang on a minute youve basically stopped it in the uk so our grannies freeze..grannies in warm countries don't need it.

[@angelamison2795]

How is thisthe case? Pension credit is only for pensioners resident in the UK.

[@CARLTULLY-tf5qu]

​@@angelamison2795they don't come under pension credit so reeve has stated they get it automatically to me the system stinks

[@marylauder3374]

They want as many pensioners dead this winter as possible.

[@rodgerhargoon3402]

U mean the poor British pensioners with loads of money living in 1st word towns in Africa still get their winter fuel allowances 😂😂😂...

[@kevinscott8267]

What do you think to lammy being brought up on tax credits at 31 years old 😂

[@michaelenglish2066]

what killed pubs was banning smoking inside thats when i stopped going

[@HzHz]

@michaelenglish2066 We used to have "The Bar" and a "Lounge Bar" also called the "Ladies Bar" there was smoking allowed in the Bar but not in the Lounge Bar, it worked perfectly well until we got all the do-gooder prats who just spoilt everything for everyone.

[@graemejones9707]

I remember when that first happened, all you could smell in pubs was stale farts. The smoke had been masking the odour!

[@thegoat11111]

High prices and greedy breweries are what killed pubs. It cost me over £5 for a pint from the Wheatsheaf farm pub which is well away from the City Centre. The greed of the 1% is affecting all aspects of our lives from high energy bills, water and food prices and both governments have done nothing to stop it.

[@Tara-xp6ki]

To true

[@onlycheeseislife]

No. The cackhanded removal of the beer-tie ruined pubs.

[@gaynorwilloughby7658]

Labour cooking the books

[@popsbubbles1242]

The more money they spend the quicker the £ looses value. the poorer we all get, as our purchasing power is reduced. The poorest in society loose the most, ie the traditional labour supporters get trashed as their purchasing power via higher prices of basic goods. Meanwhile the wealthy land owners and owners of real assets go up in value. So effectively Labour work for the rich and impoverish the poorer in society via their failed economic models/policies.

[@markm-ci6rj]

Isn't alcohol more of a problem than smoking? It costs the NHS more, it costs society more, causes violance, crime and accidents.

[@janehalford4601]

Absolutely agree with Russell this a government for the public sector, nothing more nothing less

[@suzesinger6762]

The delaaaaaaaay .....is cos they are .... Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitting themselves ¿¡¡¡

[@davehunter9342]

Interest in borrowing is £ thousands a minute . Recruiting and training extra staff to deal with pension credit claims costing more than winter allowance .

[@greasby1golf871]

And the biggest Tool he made is now in No10

[@Ian-x5z]

I am a landlord, I have a small flat from when my mother died, and rather than sell it at a £30,000 loss as property prices collapsed, I did it up and have tenant until the price picks up to the point where I can sell it for at least as much as my dear old mother paid. The rental is just enough to cover costs while keeping the property reasonable by having someone live in it. If things are as bad as envisaged I will sell the property and cut my losses as will thousands of other small time landlords. Shame about the tenants out on the street but my family will always come first. We are not all property barons and tycoons.

[@Phoenix-be1hq]

My piggy bank ran away. 😃😃😃😃

[@marylauder3374]

I shall make sure my piggy bank is empty before I pop my clogs!

[@jongarratt5383]

I purchased a pint of London Pride and a single Brandy and lemon in Sheringham last week...... £13.40!!!!!!

[@grahamdrummond2412]

It's beyond stupid, a few years from now, 90% of pubs will be gone.

[@markbrowne1967]

Pubs are iconic facets of British society - if you want to break down social cohesion, force pubs out of business by excessive taxation and regulation! This is an attack on our culture! And I agree labour couldn’t be more out of touch.

[@colinharrison5501]

Had 2 property s rented ,sold them. now 2 more gone off the rent market,

[@davidbaggett8282]

Net Zero is a 100% scam. Love you two.

[@lot1008us1]

... how about planting more trees to offset carbons and help stabilise climate change?!

[@pauldeath8393]

there is a weatherspoons in Oxted.

[@colinharrison5501]

Labour will Bank rupt the county ,as they did last time round ,

[@alanrobinson2559]

Its outrageous the middle classes should pay more tax

[@chrisgreen2786]

The idea of the greedy landlord is a myth. The council are constantly coming up with new schemes to squeeze more from them which of course has to be passed on to tenants, pushing up market value of rents, leaving poor younger people even less able to save up a deposit for a house. Wait until landlords are forced to sell up, social housing stock is gone. People aged 50 will be living at home with parents and siblings, a bizarre reality which is taking shape already. They need help, why are we treating our own citizens so badly? With the migrant crisis and having to house each one as their dependents, likely a wife and six kids come over to join them, being prioritized over our own people as punishment for their "Racist outbursts , not wanting to have people with dark skin colour in our communities", nothing to do with reasonable concern over crumbling infrastructures under the huge numbers, of course, or the rise in crime and destruction of the British culture and the freedom our relatives fought and died to preserve for us, only to give away, we're all just far right thugs apparenly. Our pensioners need our help during winter but obviously Queer Srarlin wants the future migrant and muslim votes, the rotten traitor!

[@stephenbyrne7169]

Reigate?

[@Slumbert]

Rachel looks like my morningsausage.

[@Royboy50]

Is that the sausage stammer wants releasing

[@toniswift6058]

Lol... Bent?

[@graemejones9707]

I always think she looks like Matt Lucas playing one of his Little Britain characters.

[@AlanBadger-s5e]

​@@graemejones9707another labour Islam lover....eh !!..😅😅

[@RichardCalladine-u1o]

Dont put any brown sauce on that sausage...you'll have indigestion

[@jasminehobbs6188]

Even if you give. Up every time you have anything wrong its because your an ex smoker why bother

[@Sarah-ik5ce]

Have u lot not seen the photos of star mer with jim my fi x it , as a small boy , the pho to says a thousand words ,😬

[@RichardCalladine-u1o]

Renationalisation of the railways is a good thing...perhaps the only thing this present government is doing that I agree with....

[@AlanBadger-s5e]

And then we can pay even higher wage rises, for a railway no one can afford....

[@douglasjackson6955]

Commissar Starmer

[@trevorstanding6462]

Get your daily dose of extraterrestrial fun here on Planet TalkTV ! 😃😂

[@Cruella-Deville]

Why don’t she shut up. Biting at the bit to interrupt. Speaking too fas and too much.

[@AlanBadger-s5e]

Labour Islam lover...eh !😊😊😊

[@onlycheeseislife]

It's her show..... She's why we watch....

[@philipcovell3272]

Alex dear, your top is getting a little bit lower today, however it has a bit more to go. It will help you viewing figures, just a thought.

[@Fre667Roger-Ring]

You shouldn’t be looking 🤔

[@philipcovell3272]

@@Fre667Roger-Ring The news is so bad that I am trying to find some levity in everyday things. I do risk being the ever present danger of being arrested for looking and thinking of her as a woman.

[@stephendalton1648]

They are having a cleavage contest with GB news

[@Daisydoo2024]

Really …. what a twit you are

[@robinburn4974]

Sex mad?

[@jamisu5467]

She is an awful presenter. Sounds like Jonathan Toss on helium.