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
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.