Why have an ex-Labour MP when you could have the actual MP for the constituency Carla Denyer Very poor from BBC Newsnight stuck in the same old politics

🚨 NEW: As the budget begins, Conservatives are more trusted on the economy than Labour 😬 🟦 CON 27% (+6) 🟥 LAB 25% (-7) Via YouGov, 28 Oct (+/- vs 22 Jul)

Reeves says previous Government allocated nothing for compensations schemes. Says #Budget2024 allocates £11.8bn for contaminated blood scandal and £1.8bn for Post Office/Horizon scandal. But no mention of WASPI despite Parliamentary Ombudsman ruling that compensation due.

Those who are most disadvantaged don’t feel the same. In fact, all the announcements and briefings so far have further devastated the mental health of claimants who, both financially and ideologically, desperately needed a fresh start.

🚨 BREAKING: Rachel Reeves confirms Labour will impose annual spending cuts of 2% on every single government department. Austerity returns.

Rachel Reeves announced austerity - 2% cut in Govt Dept funding. Crackdown on economic inactivity i.e cut benefits. Due to lack of access to healthcare 7.7m hospital appointments awaited, 2.8m chronically ill. So civil servants, not doctors, will decide fitness to work.

Freezing fuel duty. Whilst increasing the price of a bus fare. This Government are absurd - and dangerous for people & the planet. #Budget2024

simon maginn My dream is staying alive. Preferably with warmth, and food on the table. But I am believing in my dream less and less with everything Labour says and does. I'm 60 in two months. Once upon a time I'd be able to retire and have a guaranteed income, albeit low. Now? Nothing!

❗️ With the budget concluded, Reeves made no mention of the two-child benefit cap, so it's been kept. This is despite Labour fans insisting that she would definitely scrap it in the budget.

Rachel Reeves says "We Can't spend our way to better public services." Lots of countries in the world are calling to tell you we can.

Today’s budget if you have a disability. #Budget2024

Nothing in the budget for the North East. Cuts, in fact – the A1 project cancelled, bus fares up, no Leamside Line investment. Even the Crown Works money was announced by Jeremy Hunt back in March. @kimcguinness has not stood up for the North East. chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas…

Women born in the 1950s suffered an historic injustice relating to their state pensions. Fair and fast compensation is already long overdue. The WASPI women cannot afford to wait any longer. Outside Parliament today, the campaign continues.

Today’s budget was a missed opportunity to bring about the transformative change this country needs. A statement from the Independent Alliance.

Please don’t stop benefits suddenly because you are feeling like a fraud. This is something near everyone feels when the government start talking about fraud. - Jay x

Small print on budget has austerity across 5 departments. Home Office -3.2% Culture -2.5% Transport -0.7% Environment -1.9% Cabinet Office -7.4% And £8bn ‘savings’ in the Welfare Budget (read that as a continued attack on the sick and disabled).

"Socialists are back in charge!" business is saying about the NI hike. But it's because Reeves isn't a socialist that she ruled out a wealth tax, higher income tax for the rich & corporation tax. So she's left getting £25bn from just one tax which actually might hit wages & jobs.

A Labour Government: 🟥 £10,500 Tuition Fees 🟥 22-44% rise in Water Bills 🟥 Two Child Cap kept 🟥 10m pensioners Winter Fuel Allowance Axed 🟥 £3bn NHS contracts offered to private sector 🟥 50% rise in Bus Fares 🟥 £149 rise in Energy Bills 🟥 5,500 released early from prison

This is the most important fact you’ll read about the Budget. Britain is set to suffer yet another fall in living standards. That’s after the longest squeeze in wages since the Napoleonic age. Social progress grinding to a halt for a generation will have drastic consequences.

This from the OBR is potentially a serious problem for Reeves and Starmer. It says that real household disposable income will be 1.25% lower at the start of 2029 than it expected in March, before the election, with 85% of this fall "explained by policies announced in this budget"