The Chancellor is just blaming Brexit for her own policy failures - Yorkshire Post Letters
From: Peter Auty, Great Hatfield.
The proportion of debt to GDP stands at 97.3 per cent for 2024/25, a substantial amount of debt for a so-called G7 wealthy country.
In 1997 when the Labour party came to power with the slogan ‘Education, education, education’, the UK slowly slid into a mountain of debt, until they lost the 2010 general election to the Conservatives who inherited a note stating "no money left".
Things got worse and austerity became the watch word.
Even though the UK was left destitute the huge annual payment to the EU had to be paid on time, by this time Tony Blair had negotiated away, to the French, a huge part of the annual rebate in exchange for alterations to the CAP, the French reneged, the UK lost out (ripped off) once again.
The UK is just a cash cow to the EU, it took our money and then gave back approximately 20/25 per cent for infrastructure works and had the audacity to put on hoardings "funded by the EU", funded by the UK's own money, more like.
Most people can see that Brexit has been badly managed from the initial litigation 2010-2020 by Remainers, the unfortunately timed pandemic and the infighting of the Conservative government 2021-2024 and now a chancellor whose disastrous policies and tax hikes on businesses, the former Labour Deputy PM Angela Rayner’s poorly thought through employment laws and a PM who seems out of touch with the UK. All adding to the woes of the UK.
This is not the change the electorate voted for when the Conservatives were voted out and Labour came to power.
The Chancellor is now blaming Brexit for her own diabolic policies that are leading the UK on a downward GDP spiral, a desperate statement from a desperate Chancellor with zero knowledge of the workings of business in any shape or form.