Reeves “fa pressione sui capi d’azienda affinché parlino dell’economia del Regno Unito”
Reeves ‘pressures business chiefs to talk up the UK economy’
di SojournerInThisVale
Reeves “fa pressione sui capi d’azienda affinché parlino dell’economia del Regno Unito”
Reeves ‘pressures business chiefs to talk up the UK economy’
di SojournerInThisVale
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It’s not their job to talk it up; it’s the government’s job to create an environment in which there’s reasons to talk it up.
Yeah, they should be praising higher business rates, employer NIC tax raids and the uncertainty of next months budget, by a government with 400+ MP’s who cannot even pass minimal spending reforms as it’s paralysed by its backbenchers.
Maybe you should stop the doom loop of increasing taxing, tanking growth and then raising taxes
That’s right.
If you can’t think of anything else just shout at it
Maybe that will fix it.
Maybe ministers, MPs and government spokespeople should be singing from the same positive hymn sheet and actually telling us all the positive story.
In fact maybe secretaries of state, other than the health secretary, should be less afraid of the media and speak to them more often including just randomly turning up for 5 minutes.
I think a Labour government did that before….
After her performance as captain doom? Fucking hell she’s got some nerve.
*The new calls come despite both Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer being accused of talking down the economy in the months following the 2024 election, where the government said parts of Britain were “broken”.*
*A new survey by The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) this week showed business confidence sank to its lowest in three years as tax fears weighed.*
I suppose Reeves herself can’t go to the media to try to spin things as all she will be asked is “Are you raising taxes by £30b or £40b next month?” and “Who will get hit by the tax rises?” or possibly “Do you think your backbenchers will let you make any cuts to spending?”
Nothing speaks louder than your pay cheque and your bills. If politicians and business leaders sound like they live in a dream world, they WILL be replaced.
This is very ironic. The City were very positive about Labour coming to power and the vibe was very optimistic economically within the business communities, then Labour started talking down the economy by saying there wasn’t any money left and about massive fiscal holes, which caused negative investment sentiment, on top of the employer NI hike.
Maybe look at yourself, Rach.
At the same time you talk it down?
Great plan there Rachel, the Accounts department really must be struggling without you there
Propaganda instead of policies; taxes instead of growth.
_”We know we’re doing a bad job, but reform would be worse”_, _”so tell everyone what great job we’re doing”_.
Technically she is not wrong, Reform would be utterly disastrous for the economy. However Labour (particularly their backbenchers) need to get to grips with their spending addiction.
We’re in a situation where Labour seems to have made a legitimate move but seems to not want to acknowledge, or worse don’t understand, what they’ve done?
They’ve tipped the post-Thatcherite consensus of business subsidising the welfare bill through employing, arguably unnecessary, cheap labour, into business becoming more efficient and investing, which results in layoffs.
What business really hates is the government tearing up the playing field half way through the match. It’s not that the game can’t be played, it’s more like “why the hell are you doing that now when you were pushing us to score goals in the second half?”
We’ve moved 80% of our U.K. team out. We didn’t understand your maths Reeves, mainly because 1+1=2.
You can always make some great narratives up however. Best of luck with that.