Tax & spending experts say Sunak's budget doesn't add up
Paul Johnson, the director of the IFS, said the “spending plans in particular don’t look deliverable, at least not without considerable pain” predicting that the government would have to spend more theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…
Paul Johnson, the director of the IFS, said the “spending plans in particular don’t look deliverable, at least not without considerable pain” predicting that the government would have to spend more theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…
“Are we really going to spend £16bn less on public services than we were planning pre-pandemic? Is the NHS really going to revert to its pre-Covid spending plans after April 2022?
Nothing budgeted for annual vaccination, Test & Trace or backlog catch up.
Preposterous
Nothing budgeted for annual vaccination, Test & Trace or backlog catch up.
Preposterous
“In reality, there will be pressures from all sorts of directions. The NHS is perhaps the most obvious. The chancellor’s medium-term spending plans simply look implausibly low.”
I was wrong about no money for Test and Trace.
Hidden away is another staggering spend, lifting their budget to £37 BILLION - this on one of the most ineffective pandemic spends...except for all that PPE that cannot be used
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/test-and…
Hidden away is another staggering spend, lifting their budget to £37 BILLION - this on one of the most ineffective pandemic spends...except for all that PPE that cannot be used
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/test-and…
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