Budget 2020

[bluethrunthru]

Just watching SKY News - their number cruncher says the new £30bn to fight Covid-19 is nothing of the sort - £18bn had already been revealed and is being double counted in effect. As ever the devil is in the detail with these things and in the next few days I am sure more holes will be punched in this budget announcement. I assume that the usual suspects have been on here deploring this spending spree because it will bankrupt the economy, we can't afford it etc etc .............course not because it was never about the message it was the messenger when spending was being denounced.

 

[NeilYoungIsBack]

I was going off the live text to be fair.

Another project confirmed alongside today's budget is £25m towards Cottam Parkway station near Preston

https://www.lep.co.uk/lifestyle/tra...rt-out-transport-issues-todays-budget-2447161


There will be other schemes included in the funding confirmed today for the West Midlands, Bristol, West Yorkshire etc. but I guess these will be announced more locally and/or confirmed by Grant Shapp when the transport parts of the budget get debated in Parliament

 

[Chippy_boy]

I assume that the usual suspects have been on here deploring this spending spree because it will bankrupt the economy, we can't afford it etc etc .............course not because it was never about the message it was the messenger when spending was being denounced.

Quite right too. He's a fucking wanker.

 

[NeilYoungIsBack]

There will be other schemes included in the funding confirmed today for the West Midlands, Bristol, West Yorkshire etc. but I guess these will be announced more locally and/or confirmed by Grant Shapp when the transport parts of the budget get debated in Parliament

Just spotted this as well - £103m investment going into the Tyne & Wear Metro rail system

https://www.nexus.org.uk/news/item/...freqeuncy-and-reliability-tyne-and-wear-metro

 

[blueinsa]

Got to hand it to Boris and Cummings he has knocked the stuffing out of Labour today with that budget.

The silence on here is almost deafening as well.

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

Bastard Tories investing money left, right and centre.

Thoughts?

Tories implement 'unaffordable' Labour manifesto ......LOL

 

[Len Rum]

Bastard Tories investing money left, right and centre.
Thoughts?

Took you for a mug the last ten years.

 

[Len Rum]

Fuck - I am watching Corbyn's response - he just does not seem to have the energy or position to respond properly.
Keeps mis-reading from the drafted speech prepared for him and his voice is just monotone and dull
He needed to have gone in December/January

Why are you even bothered?

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

You must be delighted with most of the policies then, Bob?

Bearing in mind that they are the unaffordable labour policies that you Tories were bleating on about last year ,.... and you are now trying to claim the praise for them I am laughing .


But its the Conservatives.... they wont implement / achieve any of them ...

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

Another project confirmed alongside today's budget is £25m towards Cottam Parkway station near Preston

https://www.lep.co.uk/lifestyle/tra...rt-out-transport-issues-todays-budget-2447161


There will be other schemes included in the funding confirmed today for the West Midlands, Bristol, West Yorkshire etc. but I guess these will be announced more locally and/or confirmed by Grant Shapp when the transport parts of the budget get debated in Parliament

Just a quick question .... why is the tax payer funding improvements to a privatised rail system ? Surely we should be increasing the franchise fee for that?