'Our new PM is being accused of plans that will put the taxpayer on the hook for an extra £4,300 per year'
Our inexperienced new Prime Minister Andy Burnham is already getting his sums wrong. Oh dear.
Bitter Darren Jones, who lost his place at the top table, pointed out an error is Andy’s first major financial policy announcement.
Andy Burnham has announced plans to to bring down the cost of living by taking VAT off electricity bills, a £2 cap on bus journeys, ending rough sleeping and slashing business rates for pubs and music venues, and he would pay for some of this with the digital ID scheme cash.
Darren Jones tweeted: "Good news that VAT will be cut on electricity bills. It’s a simple way for families to save a few quid, and to mechanically help to keep inflation that little bit lower.
"But the Digital ID program was unfunded. The Government will have to set out how it will pay for its new policies at the budget."
Who needs an opposition when you’ve got recently sacked cabinet minister Darren Jones who has just admitted that the Digital ID scheme was unfunded?
This shows just how shambolic this Labour Government has been so far.
But it doesn’t end there. Our exuberant new PM has pledged to deal with the social care crisis which is estimated to cost £18billion. Very laudable.
And he has launched a tirade of plans which are likely to cost us taxpayers eye-watering sums.
A dossier produced by the Tory party listed a series of pledges made by Andy Burnham, which included £18.8billion on council house building, £22.7billion to bring Thames Water under public control, £14.1billion in future defence spending, £12.4billion in unfreezing income tax personal allowances, and £8billion uplift for foreign aid.
The dossier has calculated that Mr Burnham future plans would cost approximately £76billion and that there has been no explanation as to how it will be funded.
Our new PM is being accused of plans that will put the taxpayer on the hook for an extra £4,300 per year and that he is "writing cheques British people can't cash" by running up £96billion of policy pledges.
That's alongside his new chancellor John Healey, who couldn’t count how many ships we have when asked on LBC radio in March.
I think things are going swimmingly well.. He’s our new chancellor who resigned because the defence budget fell short by £5billion. More money Andy has to find.
I wonder if Andy is going to blame his financial woes on his inheritance from Keir Starmer’s Labour?
Andy told the BBC that he’s not going to call a general election even though he doesn’t have a mandate for all of this.
Listen Andy, I’m not opposed to some of your plans, but those in your party were swift to roast Liz Truss for her unfunded approach, so it’s only fair that you get the same treatment.
Welfare and the boats, which right now the latter is being abused and poses a national security threat, but we don’t want to mention those.
