£125 billion spent by Govt since 2019.

[northwestman]

The UK Government is reported to have wastefully spent or dubiously allocated £99,418,907,782 since 2019.

The total does not include the catastrophic hit to public finances from the Government’s Brexit deal which has crippled businesses, slowed economic growth, and is estimated to be costing around £100bn per year. Similarly, the total does not include the titanic economic cost of the disastrous mini-budget which increased bills for mortgage payers across the country and which ended Liz Truss’ premiership after 6 weeks.

It does, however, include figures like the devastating £290m sunk on the Government’s cruel, unworkable and unlawful Rwanda Deal. It also includes a whopping £2.3bn spent on cancelled parts of HS2, and £50m spent on a new helicopter for top Tories.

www.bestforbritain.org/scandalous_spending_tracker

[staffordshrew]

"Spent" is being kind, when I spend I try to get value for money. This is more like p**sed up the wall.

[northwestman]

Mar 2, 2024 22:14:24 GMT 1 staffordshrew said:

"Spent" is being kind, when I spend I try to get value for money. This is more like p**sed up the wall.

Which, with Hunt's tax cuts factored in, leaves no extra money for public services.

www.opendemocracy.net/en/council-cuts-austerity-tories-bankrupt-youth-services-sure-start-school-nurses/

Britain is so broke that it can’t afford lollipop people any more. Councils are having to turn off the fountains in Nottingham and dim the street lights in Birmingham. In some areas, public toilets are a thing of the past. Libraries might soon follow them.

In Rotherham, Southampton and Blackpool, they’ve reduced funding for addiction support services. In Bradford, the town hall says the cuts it has to make are so deep that it will need to borrow money just so it has the capacity to implement them.

But the drastic decisions that local authorities are making now are just the tip of the iceberg. Austerity has been biting since 2010, when George Osborne slashed the amount of money councils could receive from central government in one of his first acts as chancellor.

Between 2010 and 2020, they lost more than 50% of their government grants in real terms. Six councils have already gone ‘bankrupt’ in the last two years while more than half of the rest say they could follow, meaning they could be taken over by Whitehall or replaced by new authorities.

[ssshrew]

George Osborne has so much to answer for that there just wouldn’t be enough time to go through the process.

We all knew at the time what would be coming with his policies and so it has proved. He, with his millions, won’t give a toss and neither will the other two who led the coalition for the same reasons.

Absolutely hateful all three of them.

[davycrockett]

Yet as we speak Rishi is trying to persuade Jeramy Hunt to cut income tax by 2%!

Just what we need.

[rob62]

Any spare cash needs to go to local Councils and public services like NHS and the Police

[martinshrew]

Mar 3, 2024 16:54:30 GMT 1 davycrockett said:

Yet as we speak Rishi is trying to persuade Jeramy Hunt to cut income tax by 2%!

Just what we need.

Massive vote winner!

[ssshrew]

Yep and then it will be whacked on again afterwards.

[northwestman]

It's now up to over £125 billion!

www.bestforbritain.org/scandalous_spending_tracker