After Next Week’s Budget, We Must Expose the Chancellor’s Record and Make It Stick | Shabana Mahmood

Last Updated: March 12, 2016By

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The Chancellor will [soon] deliver his eighth budget. He will be six years into his job. We already know that in almost every paragraph there will be a reference to “Labour’s recession”/”clearing up Labour’s mess”/”13 years” All designed to deflect from his own choices and decisions and to put the focus back on the last Labour government.

But we also have to expose this Chancellor’s record AND make it stick. And on the Chancellor’s record, it’s this second bit, the making it stick, that we have struggled with since 2010. Its not for want of trying or lack of effort. But before you can successfully expose a record, you have to wait for there to be record. And you have to allow for a long enough period of time to let the Chancellor do what he said he would; for him to succeed or fail on his own terms. (Even if politicians don’t want to do this, the British public do). But the Chancellor has now been in his job for long enough, he is failing on his own terms, and we finally have an opportunity to not only say it (loudly, and on repeat) but to make it stick.

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3 Comments

  1. rupertrlmitchell March 12, 2016 at 3:55 pm - Reply

    There is no doubt that he has made a GREAT SUCCESS of depriving those in need for those of greed. What we now badly need is a good Chancellor to completely reverse his actions. John McDonnell looks like being his successor and that can’t come quickly enough.

  2. Terry Davies March 12, 2016 at 4:33 pm - Reply

    hes a complete failure, liar,. and totally untrustworthy. get rid of tory mayors in the may elections, and every tory councillor in the UK.

  3. derizzo March 14, 2016 at 12:58 pm - Reply

    Car sticker please

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