"Theresa May is facing a chorus of Tory demands for a radical overhaul of state funding for public services as cabinet ministers and senior Conservative MPs back higher pay for millions of NHS workers, more cash for schools and a “national debate” on student debt.
The prime minister’s waning authority was highlighted as her health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and education secretary Justine Greening lobbied for an easing of austerity and senior Conservative MPs insisted public services would be in growing peril without an urgent loosening of the purse strings.
Separately, Damian Green, the de facto deputy prime minister and a May loyalist, hinted at a wider rethink when he said there might need to be a national debate about the level of student fees, in order to appeal to younger voters.
The level of internal pressure for the abandonment of austerity puts chancellor Philip Hammond under huge pressure to consider raising taxes to fund any extra public spending. It comes as the official body that regulates nurses and midwives – the Nursing and Midwifery Council – prepares to reveal new evidence on Monday of a growing crisis in the recruitment of nurses.
Government sources made it clear that Hunt was prepared to take on Hammond and call for the lifting of the maximum 1% pay cap for nurses and other NHS workers, citing as evidence a hard-hitting report by the government’s own NHS pay review body published in March this year."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ublic-spending
So, basically the Brexit crowd made it so that all those tax increases were pointless - we'd get higher taxes to finance higher spending to bribe voters who'd still vote for Korbin and then we'd face even higher taxation.
Was your Brexit vote worth it?
The prime minister’s waning authority was highlighted as her health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and education secretary Justine Greening lobbied for an easing of austerity and senior Conservative MPs insisted public services would be in growing peril without an urgent loosening of the purse strings.
Separately, Damian Green, the de facto deputy prime minister and a May loyalist, hinted at a wider rethink when he said there might need to be a national debate about the level of student fees, in order to appeal to younger voters.
The level of internal pressure for the abandonment of austerity puts chancellor Philip Hammond under huge pressure to consider raising taxes to fund any extra public spending. It comes as the official body that regulates nurses and midwives – the Nursing and Midwifery Council – prepares to reveal new evidence on Monday of a growing crisis in the recruitment of nurses.
Government sources made it clear that Hunt was prepared to take on Hammond and call for the lifting of the maximum 1% pay cap for nurses and other NHS workers, citing as evidence a hard-hitting report by the government’s own NHS pay review body published in March this year."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ublic-spending
So, basically the Brexit crowd made it so that all those tax increases were pointless - we'd get higher taxes to finance higher spending to bribe voters who'd still vote for Korbin and then we'd face even higher taxation.
Was your Brexit vote worth it?
