[thread]
This is a thread on @TrussLiz
And one question as posed by @EddieMair
"My question is about you. How have you been affected. Have you been adversely affected?"
This is a thread on @TrussLiz
And one question as posed by @EddieMair
"My question is about you. How have you been affected. Have you been adversely affected?"
The section I will focus on 
I could ask about this photo shoot - but I won’t
"Truss charged the taxpayer £1,483 to hire a professional photographer for her tour of 🇦🇺, 🇳🇿 and 🇯🇵. The public purse also coughed up a further £1,190 for Truss's "PR-related activities" on the trip. "
buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/li…
"Truss charged the taxpayer £1,483 to hire a professional photographer for her tour of 🇦🇺, 🇳🇿 and 🇯🇵. The public purse also coughed up a further £1,190 for Truss's "PR-related activities" on the trip. "
buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/li…
First though we go back 11 years
To a global financial crash
The hint there is in the word
Global
To a global financial crash
The hint there is in the word
Global
“The distortion is that the high deficit and debt when labour left office in 2010 were a consequence of the recession, and commendable attempts to limit its impact on output and employment.”
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2012/08/facts-…
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2012/08/facts-…
So in 2010 a coalition government and then 2015-2019 a Tory government (propped up post 2017 by a DUP bung) implemented a programme of austerity cuts
Because from her response to Eddie Mair she clearly feels unable to say that austerity had an impact on her life
Her ending response
“ I don’t know what it means”
She doesn’t know what austerity is?
She doesn’t know how to evaluate a consequence of austerity?
“ I don’t know what it means”
She doesn’t know what austerity is?
She doesn’t know how to evaluate a consequence of austerity?
Wow
The level of wilful desperation
idiocy
or complete and utter contempt for UK citizens in that she cannot defend her record
The level of wilful desperation
idiocy
or complete and utter contempt for UK citizens in that she cannot defend her record
I could stop there
That in any normal day should be enough to make you think what in the actual feck
But these aren’t normal times
That in any normal day should be enough to make you think what in the actual feck
But these aren’t normal times
After all if you want to know the impacts of austerity
Then all it takes to find evidence (apart from real life experiences of course) is to google
Three words to google
Austerity
Cuts
And then either your area or a policy topic
Then all it takes to find evidence (apart from real life experiences of course) is to google
Three words to google
Austerity
Cuts
And then either your area or a policy topic
Perhaps if only all the country could benefit from our own individual technology tutelage as Boris Johnson did then our online skills would be better
(It would also be a boost to home pole dancing product kits)
(It would also be a boost to home pole dancing product kits)
So I could end the thread here and say that @TrussLiz should just go google austerity
Instead to save her the complication of using Google I have included for her some quick easy reference laid out below
So I am going to focus on Liz Truss’s home turf
So I am going to focus on Liz Truss’s home turf
First we go back a decade
To a time when Chris Grayling was shadow Home Secretary
And the Daily Telegraph
24th February 2009
Chief Constable of Gloucestershire
To a time when Chris Grayling was shadow Home Secretary
And the Daily Telegraph
24th February 2009
Chief Constable of Gloucestershire
"The full effect of a recession can take a long time to be felt in crime and disorder terms. Unemployment peaked in 1985 but there was no downturn in crime figures until the mid 1990s. In the meantime we experienced severe social shock and it was the Police that held the line.""
Grayling: "This has to be the final nail in the coffin of Blair's promise Labour would be tough on crime. We have many violent crimes rocketing & crimes like burglaries on the rise again. Because Brown has wrecked finances we are going to have fewer police on our streets."
Then roll forward 9 years to police forces who oh what was it they did
Oh yes “cried wolf”
news.sky.com/story/may-tell…
Oh yes “cried wolf”
news.sky.com/story/may-tell…
"Hundreds of investigations have been quietly closed by Norfolk Constabulary
The Norfolk force has seen a ten per cent rise in burglaries in the year to March"
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…
The Norfolk force has seen a ten per cent rise in burglaries in the year to March"
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…
"A police force that axed all its uniformed community support officers is hiring casual workers on zero-hours contracts to perform some of their duties."
theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/f…
theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/f…
Now onto education/youth services
"Around 82pc of schools in Norfolk and Waveney are projected to be more worse off next year than five years ago, with three schools seeing a loss of more than £500,000."
edp24.co.uk/news/education…
"Around 82pc of schools in Norfolk and Waveney are projected to be more worse off next year than five years ago, with three schools seeing a loss of more than £500,000."
edp24.co.uk/news/education…
"Avenue Junior School in Norwich wants volunteer painters, gardeners and decorators because of its "difficult financial situation".
Some parents say they are "furious" the school has had to ask for help, blaming government funding cuts to education."
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
Some parents say they are "furious" the school has had to ask for help, blaming government funding cuts to education."
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
"A drastic cut in state funded per pupil entitlement from £3100 to £2700 per pupil, as well as rising outgoing costs, including mandatory pay increases, have left her having to lose a 1/5 of her much needed staff over the course of one school term. "
truevisiontv.com/films/details/…
truevisiontv.com/films/details/…
"Norfolk county council says it can no longer afford to fund clubs and hundreds of projects for young people. But what effect will such drastic action have on its youngsters?"
theguardian.com/society/2011/a…
theguardian.com/society/2011/a…
"Youth services ‘decimated by 69 per cent’ in less than a decade amid surge in knife crime, figures show"
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
"Conservative-run Norfolk council is also looking at £5m of cuts to the community and environmental services budget and a £1m cut to the finance and commercial services budget."
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
"Previous research by the organisation showed the total spent by local authorities in England on youth services steadily decreased between 2010/11 and 2018/19."
In 2010/11 a total of £1.18 billion was spent, compared with £385 million 8 years later.
itv.com/news/anglia/20…
In 2010/11 a total of £1.18 billion was spent, compared with £385 million 8 years later.
itv.com/news/anglia/20…
"Young people are at greater risk of committing crime or having mental illness because council funds to support them have been slashed by 90pc, experts claim."
edp24.co.uk/news/politics/…
edp24.co.uk/news/politics/…
“You can’t learn if you’re hungry,” she said. “Children need to be fed, clothed and warm.”
mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/f…
mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/f…
"Delays to Universal Credit payments moved staff at North Denes Primary in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to begin collecting food donations to distribute to struggling families."
inews.co.uk/news/uk/food-b…
inews.co.uk/news/uk/food-b…
"It started with a note. A plea for help, handwritten on a scrap of paper by an 11-year-old pupil. Her mother had run out of food."
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
"Schools in Norfolk are washing pupils' uniforms and giving them hair cuts to ease pressures on parents left struggling after welfare cuts."
edp24.co.uk/news/education…
edp24.co.uk/news/education…
"North Denes Primary School in Great Yarmouth, which featured on Panorama on Monday, September 2, said cuts to the amount of funding it got per pupil had worsened as demand from children with special needs increased."
edp24.co.uk/news/education…
edp24.co.uk/news/education…
here's a thread on food banks
On homelessness
and here's a thread on education cuts
oh and here's one on domestic abuse services
(think about that the next time the Tories are celebrating international women's day - yes Theresa May looking at you there)
(think about that the next time the Tories are celebrating international women's day - yes Theresa May looking at you there)
Now on the topic of mental health
"Nearly £32m has been cut from mental health services in the region in the last five years, it has been claimed."
edp24.co.uk/news/health/co…
"Nearly £32m has been cut from mental health services in the region in the last five years, it has been claimed."
edp24.co.uk/news/health/co…
"A quarter of mental health beds in Norfolk and Suffolk have been lost in the last four years."
lowestoftjournal.co.uk/news/how-140-n…
lowestoftjournal.co.uk/news/how-140-n…
here's a thread on mental health
So even with all the cuts that councils have had to make
Cuts forced upon them by central government
Councils have still had to cope with providing statutory and essential services amidst that
Cuts forced upon them by central government
Councils have still had to cope with providing statutory and essential services amidst that
Hence at the end of the day
They put up council tax
They don't have a magic money tree after all unlike that which exists for DUP bungs
They put up council tax
They don't have a magic money tree after all unlike that which exists for DUP bungs
2017
The bulk of each council tax bill goes to Norfolk County Council, which this week agreed a 4.8pc increase, including 3pc specifically to pay for adult social care
dissmercury.co.uk/news/norfolk-s…
The bulk of each council tax bill goes to Norfolk County Council, which this week agreed a 4.8pc increase, including 3pc specifically to pay for adult social care
dissmercury.co.uk/news/norfolk-s…
2018 - 2019
At its meeting on 11 February 2019, Norfolk County Council agreed to increase the council tax for 2019-20 by 2.99%.
norfolk.gov.uk/what-we-do-and…
At its meeting on 11 February 2019, Norfolk County Council agreed to increase the council tax for 2019-20 by 2.99%.
norfolk.gov.uk/what-we-do-and…
Government plans to redraw the town hall funding formula will see more cash going to more affluent Tory areas at the expense of the most deprived parts of the country.
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
“Our report on local government funding, found budgeted revenues to cover day-to-day spending in 2019–20 will be approximately 18% lower in real-terms than in 2009–10. After accounting for population growth, that equates to cuts of 24% per resident.”
ifs.org.uk/election/2019/…
ifs.org.uk/election/2019/…
“Council funding in the most deprived areas has fallen by even more, the IFS says. It explains:
"Cuts have varied significantly across the country though – and have been larger in more deprived areas. As a result, councils’ spending on local services has fallen around 31% in the most deprived areas, on average, compared to 16% in the least deprived areas. "
Now obviously for the 2010 - 2019 period
The government were too cowardly to own up to and admit the reality of the choices they made
As they were choices
They weren't forced to do them
Austerity remains as always a political choices
The government were too cowardly to own up to and admit the reality of the choices they made
As they were choices
They weren't forced to do them
Austerity remains as always a political choices
The government went out of their way to obfuscate and hide the impact of what they were doing
They *knew* the impact
They knew the detail of their cuts
They knew who was being hit
They knew who was being hit distributionally
They *knew* the impact
They knew the detail of their cuts
They knew who was being hit
They knew who was being hit distributionally
George Osborne as Chancellor
And David Cameron as prime minister
And a governing party allowed them to do this
And David Cameron as prime minister
And a governing party allowed them to do this
"The Treasury used to publish a so-called distributional analysis with its budgets/autumn statements that included a clear chart showing the impact of all changes on the incomes of all groups
"they stopped publishing the core part after the election."
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
"they stopped publishing the core part after the election."
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
"Ms Morgan made a brave stab at not answering the question and countered with some stats of her own."
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nicky-mo…
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nicky-mo…
It isn't a "brave stab"
It is a shameful stab
It is the shame of a party and government who for years have deliberately with held the distributional analysis *because they knew exactly what it showed*
It is a shameful stab
It is the shame of a party and government who for years have deliberately with held the distributional analysis *because they knew exactly what it showed*
Here is a clip on poverty
Hence why that party relied on xenophobia and racism to divert from the knowable outcomes of their policy choices
Here on wages
On education where a government cannot plan for natural population growth and a 0.4% difference on immigration scenarios
On housing
Oh and here's the EU
It's what fed brexit
Brexiteer MP's should never be castigating George Osborne and David Cameron
They should be thanking them - for using the period 2010-2016 to give them exactly the fertile ground they needed for a con of electoral cheating, lies, fantasy and racism
Brexiteer MP's should never be castigating George Osborne and David Cameron
They should be thanking them - for using the period 2010-2016 to give them exactly the fertile ground they needed for a con of electoral cheating, lies, fantasy and racism
And at the centre of all this
A party and its black and white balls
A party and its black and white balls
And to end on Boris Johnson
A man who seeks only interest for him self and power and money
A man who seeks only interest for him self and power and money
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