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She also plans to stop non-essential spending on consultants and sell off surplus property.

She means privatisation.

Those findings led the government to accuse the Conservatives of making significant funding commitments for this financial year “without knowing where the money would come from”.

You ask the Central Bank to type in some numbers that's how. You can at the same time increase taxes on the rich so they can't buy shit or hoard their wealth.

And despite billions spent to house migrants and combat the criminal gangs ferrying migrants across the English Channel on dangerous inflatable boats, the number of people making the crossing is still rising, Starmer’s office said.

“The assessment will show that the UK is broke and broken — revealing the mess that populist politics has made of the economy and public services,” Downing Street said in a statement.

UK households and state assets are broken and broke because of austerity, not because the Government was spending too much or taxing (the poor) too little.

“The assessment will show that the UK is broke and broken — revealing the mess that populist politics has made of the economy and public services,” Downing Street said in a statement.

"Populist politics" they're referring to not increasing taxes on the poor.

1. They refuse to increase spending by creating new money because it'll hit their City of London imposed rules.

2. They refuse to raise taxes on the rich because they work for them.

3. Because they can't increase spending without pushing the deficit beyond their self imposed limits or raise taxes on the rich to give them more room within their limits, the only "solution" is to tax the poor.

4. Taxing the poor is ridiculous not just because they don't make much money but also due to reduction in total demand. With people having less money, stuff won't sell and capitalists will start firing workers etc....