So what causes a "black hole" in the budget?

 Things that don’t seen to be part of creating a ‘£22bn black hole’ according to Labour:

    💷 £11.6bn for international climate finance 

    💷 £9.4bn for above-inflation public sector pay rises

    💷 £8bn for GB Energy to duplicate the £22bn UK Infrastructure Bank

    💷 £9bn in lost tax receipts from shutting down North Sea oil and gas


Things that do:

    ♨️ £1.5bn Winter Fuel Payment for ten million pensioners.

Comments

Jim said…
So, hope you don't mind I copied this post and put it on Josh Macalister's Facebook page, in the comments where he was blaming the last government for the "black hole" . Any way it seems it hit a nerve, I'm now blocked from said page. Think that says a lot really :)
7:35 am
Chris Whiteside said…
I don't mind in the least, Jim.

I am disappointed, but not the tiniest bit surprised, that Josh McAlister blocked you.

This is a man whose office, when a Conservative councillor emailed him asking a question - how he was going to vote on the Winter Fuel Payment - responded not with an answer to the question, or even a personal reply, but by sending him a copy of an insulting email Josh McAlister had sent to Mark Jenkinson.
9:17 pm
Jim said…
Thanks.
Seems its not such an exclusive club though, sums up the way Labour work really https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565430672996
7:02 am
Chris Whiteside said…
Yes. I don't publish comments I think are offensive or potentially libellous, but I do try to resist the temptation - won't claim I always manage to resist the temptation but I often do - to block everything I disagree with.

Sadly being blocked by the new Labour MP for Whitehaven and Workington is not exclusive at all because he, like most members of his party, makes no such effort.

I remember that when his Labour predecessor Jamie Reed started a blog, he wouldn't even publish a friendly comment which I attempted to post.
1:13 pm
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