The difference Reeves talks about is significantly Contributed to be decisions made by the Labour government in but a few weeks. Can you imagine the hole after 5 years?
Looking forward to our increased mortgage payments kicking in next month.
Presumably you haven’t fixed again given the (apparent) direction of travel.
We fixed again as we're planning on starting a family next year and the certainty helps with planning budgets. Good to see Liz Truss absolved of any blame for causing a huge spike in rates not that long ago anyway.
9Every job is a piece of piss, except mine, seems to be the theme here. If it's so straightforward, why does it take 18-24 months' worth of training to become a train driver. Why aren't we all applying to do it?
I'm guessing one reason is that it's actually fairly technical, and the other is that it's not 40 tons of baked beans that you're responsible for, it's a few hundred lives, and a few million quid if you stuff it up.
Fully automated trains might be some way away - there's a lot of infrastructure involved. And the reason you have a driver in trains, is a bit like the reason you've got a pilot in planes...
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just pointing out that the interest rate dropped last month, and is forecast to drop again in the next couple of months (presuming things don't go pear shaped)
Yes, but we’re kept low during the majority of 14 years of Tory misrule.
But the Tories oversaw something unprecedented like 15 consecutive rate rises, leading to the highest interest rate for 14 years, plunging many families into financial hardship and seeing the worst cost of living crisis in living memory, with fuel, and food inflation also going through the roof.
They were, but the control could of been taken back at any time.
During the pandemic BoE rate was 0.1%. The major driver for the relatively brief period of relatively high ingpflation would be Russia deciding to invade a neighbouring country
Tbf I'm no fan of Starmer either, but I'm prepared to be swayed given time, but it's not a very good start to his time in office.
Even Yvette Cooper only claimed £700m spent on Rwanda which, in terms of wasted, was crystallised the minute the plan was cancelled. We will never know whether it would have worked or not, in the meantime the boats still set out, illegals still arrive and people still die and billions will continue to be spent on housing immigrants.
With a white feather.
Hope all goes well with the family plans.
Not sure anyone could seriously argue with the last sentence and a half. I suspect QE is inflationary as well, which is what he is describing. Isn’t it?
I really don’t want to.
The immigration situation is down to the Tories ffs. Labour have only been in power for a month and a half.
It was actually Tony Blair who opened the floodgates on immigration.
You can put as many laughing faces as you like. That will never alter the facts.
The Rwanda stuff was just nonsense that was never going to work and had nothing to do with the 100s of thousands of people (net migration) entering the country in 2023.
The facts are that net migration is forecast to fall in 2024 - Net migration to the UK - Migration Observatory
1000's have been entering for donkeys years, way back to the Brown and Blair years where it was actively encouraged.
I was forecast to have a 10 inch dick and be a millionaire before I was 20.
A long shot that achieved nothing and cost billions of pounds; great. You're also mixing up legal and illegal migration here.
I rest my case.
I think I have put elsewhere, Yvette Cooper claimed £700 million ( that’s less than one billion) was spent on the Rwanda scheme.
Forecasts will always say what the people who commissioned and payed for the forecast wants them to say.
