The Tory government has bungled Brexit, crashed the pound, and given wads of cash to their chums. Never Again!
For all his rhetoric today about “proving the doubters wrong” Jeremy Hunt’s Budget today confirms that the UK is set for a prolonged period of slow growth and declining living standards.
All the Bad News Buried in Jeremy Hunt’s Budget, Adam Bienkov, 15 March 2023, bylinetimes.com
Even Tories have a limit – for some, it is Sunak’s plans to pour poo into our water.
Rishi Sunak is facing a defeat in the House of Lords over his bid to scrap clean water regulations that protect swimmers and wildlife as part of his post-Brexit bonfire of European Union red tape.
Rishi Sunak facing Tory rebellion over sewage in UK rivers, iNews
From March 2015 to March 2022, the UK has spent £12.4m on the cancelled flights, according to publicly available Government figures. It has become one of the largest declared “fruitless spends” within government, which is how taxpayer money spent with no benefit is recorded.
UK Government spent £12m on failed deportation flights over seven years, iNews
Iain Anderson, the founder of the public relations from Cicero, said he was switching to Labour also in part because of the Conservatives’ plan to stoke a culture war against vulnerable groups.
Mr Anderson, who was named the government’s “LGBT business champion” in 2021, told the Financial Times the Tories were “not the party it used to be”, adding: “I can’t defend it.”
Leading businessman quits Tories after 40 years over anti-business approach [MSN/The Independent]
The new deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson, has said he would support the return of the death penalty.
In an interview with the Spectator before he was appointed to the role, he argued “nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed”.
Lee Anderson: New Tory deputy chairman would support return of death penalty, BBC News
Up to half a million striking workers made today the biggest mass action in the UK since 2011.
With teachers joining picket lines, working parents across England, Wales and Scotland had to make alternative arrangements as many schools and colleges closed to most or all pupils.
Thousands marched in London, where the head of the TUC called on the Prime Minister to “get round the table and deliver on public sector pay”.
As well as teachers, also on strike today were around 70,000 University staff from the UCU, some 100,000 civil servants from over 120 government departments and thousands of train workers from RMT unions, as well as some London bus services.
UK strikes: half a million workers demand “fair pay”, Channel 4 News, YouTube
The UK economy will shrink and perform worse than other advanced economies, including Russia, as the cost of living continues to hit households, the International Monetary Fund has said.
UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF, BBC
BBC is reporting that the UK economy is the worst of any advanced economy. Is rock bottom the Tory legacy? Is this failure of leadership the “Brexit dividend”? Either way, it stinks.
