“The good, the bad, and the downright deceptive”
by Another Angry Voice on Substack
“Analysis of Rachel Reeves' 2025 Spending review”
https://open.substack.com/pub/anotherangryvoice/p/the-good-the-bad-and-the-downright
Rachel Reeves's £200bn spending review looks like a turning point—real investment in public services, transport, and energy.
But scratch the surface and you’ll find the same old neoliberal logic at work: private profits, public risk.
Here’s our breakdown.
#RachelReeves #SpendingReview #UKPolitics #KeynesianEconomics #Austerity
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=98552
(note to self: first spend, then save)
The #neoliberal unhinged #austerity approach is almost always an attack on public sector under the guise of #fiscal responsibility …
The bitter fact is that the Italian people are paying the price for the #austerity imposed by the #Troika in the form of #underemployment and support for radical right-wing parties.
"This will be one of the tightest spending reviews in modern times, outside of the #austerity period of the early 2010s."
"The problem with talk of 'a decade of national renewal' is so much of this stuff is long term, so we could get half way through the decade and then lose the election."
Wow, pretty soon you're talking pipelines money
No wonder we have a poverty and housing crisis in Canada
#cdnpoli
( #austerity for everything but fossil fuel projects & weapons)
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:znzm74bvyf5igbc2pue3hbqn/post/3lrbnec53w22o
Wow, pretty soon your talking pipelines money
No wonder we have a poverty and housing crisis in Canada
#cdnpoli
( #austerity for everything but fossil fuel projects & weapons)
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:znzm74bvyf5igbc2pue3hbqn/post/3lrbnec53w22o
When you zoom in on a local issue, you often see a bigger picture. A sneak peek at #austerity on a local level
In Dendermonde, Belgium, the city plans to outsource cleaning, childcare & catering. The mayor says it will “save money” – without clear evidence. Just a political decision.
Read the 
Dendermonde bespaart ruim 2 mi...
"The last year has become a cautionary tale: ministers elected to repudiate Tory #austerity are now seen to be replicating it – and voters have noticed, with #Labour’s poll numbers sliding as a result."
"An independent evaluation of who gets what from the Republican tax bill just dropped, and wow.
This chart shows only the
tax cut side of things, and they only find the rich. The
spending cuts, which are separate, somehow only find the poor."
-J Wolfers
Welcome to austerity ravaged Britain...
We desperately need a wealth tax on those with more than £10M of assets to fund the broken system.
Couple ‘steal back’ their own car after police didn’t know when they could investigate:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/car-theft-met-police-chiswick-london-b2766326.html
“Labour comes last – in low single digits – in all three W Sussex county by-elections”
by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour
“Starmer’s collapse continues despite Scottish blip – and makes Labour’s 14% last month look like unattainable heights”
The budget cuts will hit this KY Congr Dist hard, but their R Rep voted for the #BIll. The author reveals rural disillusionment, but residents are unwilling to dump Trump, & some feel it may be their plight.
">40% of the ppl rely on Medicaid & many will lose their benefits with the bill. These pplwill suffer if #Medicaid & #SNAP are cut but they'll support Trump no matter what since he's their savior who's done absolutely nothing for them."
-C Tiff
#Austerity #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/opinion/trump-supporters-kentucky.html
What austerity has demonstrated again & again, is that if you cut everyday social services, you push many people into personal crisis, who then require emergency interventions; which are so much more costly they wipe out any initial saving(s) made by the cuts.
This key factor lies behind the situation that in so many sectors we seem to be paying more for a worse public service; the money now is flowing towards emergency provision to deal with failure(s).
False economies
https://www.europesays.com/uk/166426/ Huge anti-austerity march to take place though central London – London Evening Standard #austerity #JeremyCorbyn #News #Police #Protest #UK #UnitedKingdom
Is there a 'zero' missing there, that's a pretty big fucking revision.
Too many parasites and the host is dying, Shareholders, Oligarchs...the numbers just don't add up if we are to placate their insatiable demands.
“Those who are shrinking your NHS services have gathered to discuss what else they can do”
by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour
“NHS campaigner and opponent of NHS Americanisation, Nico Csergö, writes about another Establishment event to smooth over more US-copied NHS dismantling”
