Public Spending

  • Labour strike out in spending review

    Labour is in power and it’s showing. Its announcements today aim at many of its core issues. It seeks to drive more funding into energy, housing, and infrastructure to support its growing vision of a fairer country.

    Labour campaign graphics – @UKLabour (X)

    The lack of spending controls on previous Labour governments has been a bone of contention for conservatives.

    Many find the Labour party to be happy to spend but reluctant to fund it properly. These major announcements will worry yet more that Labour don’t think twice about the future.

  • Public services are everywhere

    The public services always in our hands and therefore always under our control are vital for our existence. They should be our concern. It’s because it’s the way we look after ourselves. This is important to our legitimacy as a state.

    A vital public service

    The argument is never over the word ‘free’, but what we must do for ourselves. This is a question of our fundamental moral values. Otherwise, we’re a state that buys services from others in name only. This must never be the case.

  • Exclusive: National Debt criminal

    In an exclusive for ConservativeNewsSite.com, a criminal believed to manipulate the UK National Debt has been spotted in Reading, Berkshire.

    He’s believed to have a “Web” of criminal contacts he uses to manipulate data, and to force control spending plans.

  • The divisiveness of public spending

    Stephen Harper, a former Prime Minister of Canada, was famed for having things to say about fiscal management. He told reporters in 2005; “Government has money to waste; government has money to steal; government has money to spend on benefits for a few”.

    It’s a truthful statement. It bears out in reality that public money goes into lots of different pots, and also ends up in surprising places. It could be an opera house that gets a funding boost, or local sports clubs that get more cash injections than a Russian athlete.

    It’s the timing, motivation, and intended effect that has a bearing on the popularity of a budget, for example. The letters, posts, and messages given to MP’s should find their representation in its pages, yet a statement from a Chancellor is usually a defence of it.

  • Welfare in an age of decline

    It’s a stark attribute of post-war theory that UK citizens should receive welfare payments. It fits a model that sympathises with a war-torn nation that needs to recover.

    It also follows along the lines of failure of industry and a sluggishness to innovate new ones. The compensation of benefits such as Universal Credit fit our narrative.

    However, the time has come to get over our remorse at large, and feel sorrow at lost time and manpower. The nation has to move on and find new ways to fund itself.

    The purpose of our lives here is at stake, and yet businesses have chosen to recruit overseas workers to fill gaps. These are roles citizens should do, but inequality widens.

    The reason is not a lacklustre attitude to work, but a failure of government to cover ground. It’s moved up, but not out. It hasn’t grasped its remit as well as it thinks.