Shadow work and pensions secretary Mel Stride discusses prime minister Sir Keir Starmer’s plan on an outdoor smoking ban, the cost of living crisis and the Margaret Thatcher portrait row.
Speaking about Labour’s claim of discovering a £22bn “black hole” in public finances from the previous Tory government, Mr Stride says “this idea that there’s this black hole of £22bn that suddenly Labour has conjured up is a complete misnomer.”
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if labour wants to stop the so called millionaire pensioners from getting the winter fuel allowance why don't they raise the limit that a pensioner can claim pension credits to a higher amount like 20k/yr and then allow pensioners who do not have an income of more than 20k to claim the fuel allowance. A single pensioner on £11400 will need the same amount than a married couple to heat their home.
We will fix the Black Hole in public finances by pouring another £3 Billion into the Ukraine Black Hole – Keith Starmer
Hi everyone I'm not political and not racist and I've been in a mental institution I was wondering if keir starmer needs medical treatment because he seems to have similar problems to me ?
They weren't old enough to have those freedoms so it doesn't matter. Still taking away a freedom tho coz 1 day they would of been old enough, why do people think they have the right to tell other people what they're aloud to do. Power hungry communists
WORST government EVER lied from day 1 to the CHRISTIAN COUNTRY PATRIOTS BLACK HOLE load of BULLSHIT they haven't a CLUE so they continue to lie ALL OF THEM 🐷💩🐷💩
The black hole …. more starmer lies…. how on earth does this thing get away with it !
We have all heard it before the opposition saying the Government is telling lies but let's face it, labour would have to be worse than worse to be as bad as the Tories that ripped themselves apart through their own selfish needs, rather than the needs of the people who elected them, after all the Tories put up taxes many, many times so why should we listen to them?
The only black hole are the arseholes we pay for in hotels fact.🤔
Tories got wiped out and Starmer got less votes than Corbyn . Work that one out .
Starmer is turning Britain into a communist country
Ban on Christmas next.
THEY CANT BLAME THE TORIES ABOUT A BLACK HOLE IN THE FINANCES AND THEN GIVE THE OVERPAID TRAINDRIVERS A BIG RISE IT DOESNT MAKE ANY SENSE.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eo-cgUtD9Lw&feature=shared
Fake news
When does life insist on not smoking? Never
How come he now thinks living on 11K is not ok but when the tories were in charge they didn't do anything about it!
9 Billion to the Labour paymasters, Billions squandered on illegal migration and the prospect of our elderly freezing this winter. Labour 2024
Smoking stinks, as do the Tories.
Its the same smokescreen used by dodgy Dave to impose austerity, so he know this trick. New Labour, Tory lite.
Considering there was £400bn “black hole” during the pandemic, the Tories getting it down to £22bn is the smokescreen Labour is hiding from us.
more tory bullshit
I was going to write a comment about this, but I just can't be bothered with even insulting a Tory. They are just not worthy of my time.
22 BILLION POUNDS THESE DONKEYS LEFT US WITH IS DISGUSTING AND SATANIC ALL THEY DID FOR DECADES IS LIE THEY MADE MONEY BEING PUPPETS WHILE WE AS A NATION SUFFERED 15 PLUS FCKIN YEARS!!!
"The Tories are adept at gaslighting the public with their lies."
The people who believe this are beyond savable, talk tv and gb news have completely eroded your IQ.
Clearly the conservatives still haven’t learnt lying and talking nonsense doesn’t do them favours
Starmer and that creature reeves are liars.
They are just socialist redistributors of wealth from us to the unions and poor people
NO NO NO NO
A Tory politician once again deflecting blame onto others for over a decade of his party's incompetence.. quelle surprise!
ah
Starmer. A puppet for the W.E.F.
The problem with the Dicktatorship we have in chare someone needs to be on the ball as these are the kind of people who will bring laws in via the back door.
I didn't trust Labour as a teenager and don't trust any of them now.
I think most of us get that, HOWEVER…..the “Black Hole” definitely appeared during YOUR term (s)🤷🏻♂️😒
The Royalist British Army arent interested in a parliamentary smoking ban, and wont be adhering to any new commoner legislation and
With a £22bn shortfall the commons would be mental to cut smoking generated taxes
Black hole yet 2 quarters of growth what happens if there is a 3rd quarter of growth stop the bloody boats or get kicked out by-election by by-election
I have no interest in anything a Tory has to say. They are proven liars, and it is their greed and corruption that has gone so far to bring this country to its knees. What I would like is to see them investigated properly, and some of them put in jail for fraud.
Labour have used that excuse for decades!
Stride colluded with the Tory lies about the Labour 2k tax figure.
Despite the IFS stating that any Party would need to raise taxes, Stride and the Tories claimed tax cuts were viable. More lies and of course it was the Loony Lettuce who added hundreds of £’s a month onto mortgages after her disastrous tax cut budget.Dishonest halfwits like Stride need to crawl back under their rocks.
So what the fuq was lizz trust? Or the the 80 spaces left in prison? Or the need to spend 16 billion on roads… I could go on. This man is a fool. And hasn't learnt a thing. 2 and a half months. And they are already back to lying.
Don't ever let these people back in power again.
Lying Tory tw#t.😂
The Brexit denial wafts through the corridors of Westminster like a giant corn encrusted skidmark stain that just won't go away.
The scam artist Tories are full of 💩
Joke tinpot PONCE country 👉🏻🏴
Joke FINISHED UNION👎🏻🇬🇧
🏴☮️🇪🇺
Not a strong hand this lot of contenders. Same old tropes, pushing old ideas and favouring the same lot who enabled Boris and Liz etc.
Pah! How dare he? Hypocritical liar.
lol, does he have any evidence!?
Can he talk us through how the conservatives costed everything they promised!?
He does have a point. Everyone knew the finances were bad, and then Labour decided to give the public sector eye-watering pay rises. The black hole is of their own making.
So the British system lets the majority party in Parliament spend and appropriate in total secrecy from the minority party in Parliament? There’s no transparency or accountability to the people either? What protects the public from fraud and waste if it’s all so secret? Everyone in Labour is acting like they were in the dark all those years?
These people will say anything to promote their own interests also known as grifters
£22 billion blackhole is a scam, especially when the Gov't gets nearly £2 trillion in taxes, VAT and fines every year, that works out to be £5.5 billion per day. There are many things the Gov't can cut back on or ask back. Stop sending money to Ukraine and Israel. Stop housing illegal migrants in Hotels. Stop subsisiding privatised companies or/and get Covid loan payments back. I'll say definitely back covid payments from David Cameron who got £400 million for a failed stock market company. But my feelings are, if a Gov't can't run a country on £5.5 billion per day, they aren't fit for purpose. Also, Rayner wants to allow for a 4 day work week, excuse me the less people work, the less taxes they will pay, highlighing more of this £22 billion scam.
After Liz Truss cost the UK economy £30 billion I do believe there is a large black hole in the budget. The Tories left the country in a complete mess and they knew labour would have to make difficult and unpopular decisions.