“Trusonomics on Steroids”: Farage rispetto alla follia di spesa riforma non fallita Tory su “non finanziato”

I mean this is well known and has been a constant source of criticism at Reform.

If you look at their “contract” from the last general election apparently the following measures:

* All frontline NHS and social care staff to pay zero basic rate tax for 3 years
* Tax Relief of 20% on all Private Healthcare and Insurance
* NHS Patients will receive a voucher for private treatment if they can’t see a GP within 3 days.
For a consultant it would be 3 weeks. For an operation, 9 weeks. Services will always be free at the point of use
* Operating theatres must be open on weekends
* tax incentives for new pharmacies and those who employ more staff to assist in relieving pressure on A&E

Will only cost an extra £17 Billion over 5 years.

That is just complete nonsense.

Populists are holding true to their identity.

Let’s spend all the money and cut all the taxes. No, don’t worry, they will pay for it.

Who’s they? Yeah those other people. Not you. The ones we told you were taking all the money

The problem is the media gives Farage a free ride to spread his lies

To be clear this has been their position since their manifesto at the GE.

It is genuinely wild we can have such an incredible disaster as the Truss budget, all the pundits who *fell over themselves* to be the first to praise it to high heaven wanted to pretend it never existed a week later, never to be spoken of again. And then we go into the 2024 GE, ***both*** the Tories and Reform have a tax and spend platform you’d need to work very hard to convince me is noticeably different from what Truss proposed in any meaningful way, and somehow ***its only just now a full year later*** anyone is bothering to take a look and say oh hey up hang on this doesn’t look too clever.

Honestly political media in this country is **beyond shameful**.

“On steroids” – so presumably that means they work really effectively, have a calming effect contrary to popular belief, and provided you keep an eye on things are perfectly safe?

I joke, pile of dogshit ideas, I just get amused by the “on steroids” analogy. Reminds me of this Lee & Herring bit – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF2fN4MmMAY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF2fN4MmMAY)

Reminder, he loved her budget at the time. The same budget that did it’s best to ruin the economy.

As someone who is very supportive of small state, lower taxes etc I think Reform need to be clearer and make the argument for their proposals.

Namely that the big state, high tax, high immigration, anti-business, anti-success policies of the past 15 years have only resulted in a record tax burden, a broken social contract and failing public services. So of course we need to change tack.

Where Blair was right was in encouraging people to be wealthy and successful. Now it is simply resented.

Yes, some of the savings are instant and would benefit the economy (scrapping Net Zero the prime example) but they need to set out why they are cutting taxes – fundamentally they want to have a smaller piece of a much bigger pie, and you get that be encouraging businesses and growth, not by stifling them with ever more punitive regulations and taxes.

However, the average Brit is more concerned about the tax rate than the tax take. Reform’s main hope is that the failure of Labour to solve the immigration issue will see enough people vote for them to sort that out to put them in power, and then they will be able to introduce their economic plans gradually.

The best way to deal with this it to put it in terms people can relate to.

It could cause economic disaster and the economy to collapse. This could raise your mortgage by £x a month, if you rent your landlord will raise rents by x amount to compensate.

You’ll need medical insurance, so that will cost X amount a year per person. So far I’ve never heard of exemption for babies or children.

Without the NHS prescription cost will rise by estimated x amount, per item and costs will vary depending on insurance cover, treatment etc. Again I’ve not heard of any exemptions for children, diabetics etc.

This list will go on and on.

But until people realise that everything that take for granted health wise will change dramatically for the worse they will keep sleep walikg into this disaster.

The worse thing that happened in Brexit was the remain side didn’t communicate the down side in ways that everyone can relate to.

The same is happening with Reform being allowed to make impossible promises they cannot fund.

We cannot afford another self imposed disaster by Farrage the same idiot that brought us Brexit.