Is this one of those 'difficult' choices' that they go on about? The one's that almost exclusively fuck over the poorest in our society? Those choices?

We've had thirteen years of 'tough choices'. Maybe it's time we tried something other than punching the poor?

I dunno.

You know what Tories.

If you have been beating the shit out of the donkey for 13years. But the stick aint getting it to go where you want.

Maybe you have broken the poor fuckers back.

This is the phase of electioneering where they give the game away early so everyone can say "oh my God that's disgusting and awful!" and get the majority of the public reaction out, so they can respond with "we haven't committed to this, this is an overreaction", followed by them doing that exact thing post election, with a more subdued and passive reaction from the public thereafter.

Of course. The UK is so fucked. You need to start producing something of value in this country, where is all this new money supposed to come from? You can't keep cutting social spending indefinitely. Why not embrace the reality of a rapidly worsening climate and start producing technology for renewable energy here? It could create so many jobs. The UK is still an innovation powerhouse. If life keeps getting worse though, educated people will not only stop coming here but start to leave. Then there will be nothing left here

We don't want tax cuts, we want things to work properly again.

Phew, and there I was, worried that we might start taxing the rich more than a miniscule amount.

Really dodged a bullet there. What would they have done if they couldn't afford their nightly bottle of 1907 Heidsieck Champagne?!

The Tory solution to everything... slash social programs and put money back in their own/donor pockets. Then throw enough scraps to the lower classes that they can get on board despite them also shouldering the burden of the cuts.

"I slashed your tyres, but here's a fiver. Go me."

As usual this government has it exactly bass ackwards

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Though Jeremy Hunt said the government was “not in a position” to contemplate a decrease in tax immediately, he warned that the welfare budget could be hit further down the line to foot the bill.

The welfare system has to be a “mix of carrot and stick”, with more assistance required to help people find work given there is “no shortage of jobs”, he added.

His comments came ahead of the Conservative party conference, starting on Sunday, and after it was revealed that the UK economy grew faster than had first been thought between January and March this year.

There is no shortage of senior Tory figures urging the chancellor to announce tax cuts, including former prime minister Liz Truss, one of several expected to speak out against current taxation levels during the conference.

Truss’s mini-budget 12 months ago, delivered by her then chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, sent the value of the pound tumbling and mortgage rates soaring due to the market’s adverse reaction to its £45bn of unfunded tax cuts.

With a general election expected in 2024, the chancellor could use his spring budget to unveil tax cuts ahead of the next Tory manifesto being published.

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How can the UK get rid of their first past the post system? The other side seems just as bad.