Yet More Labour budget cuts at the Senedd

[Doucas]

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/p...unces-28314404

For the left leaning rag that is Walesonline to even bother reporting this is rare but ...

"Huge financial cuts across services in Wales are being announced today as the Welsh Government reveals details of its budget for 2024-25. The Welsh Government say this is the toughest financial situation faced since the start of devolution.

The Welsh Government has a budget of around £22bn with about 80% of that spent on the health service and councils. While it says it will protect the NHS and frontline council services, like schools and social care, they say as a result of inflation, Wales’ overall budget is worth £1.3bn less in real terms since it was set in 2021. There are some questions about that £1.3bn figure.

The Welsh Governance Centre says Welsh Government funding for 2024-25 is set to be worth nearly £800m less in real terms and including inflation in that figure means the loss is actually worth £1.5bn. There are challenges relating to things like pay increases. For example, higher-than-expected pay increaseshave added £300m-£400m to government and council pay bills and in the emergency budget, more money was given to the NHS and Transport for Wales"

This is after 2 years ago Drakeford forgot to spend 150,000,000 and had to give it back.

On Radio Wales 5 this morning they were talking about the devolved money etc - for every £100 spent on a person in England, Wales gets £115 and Northern Ireland gets £120

You people vote for budget cuts with the tories then whinge when budget cuts actually happen!

[pipster]

You people vote for budget cuts with the tories then whinge when budget cuts actually happen!

Cool story bro - but to be honest you sound like a bigoted old drunk with a chip on your shoulder, that is angry from dawn till dusk.

[Doucas]

Cool story bro - but to be honest you sound like a bigoted old drunk with a chip on your shoulder, that is angry from dawn till dusk.

Do you not want people to reply to your thread then or what? It's likely I'm one of the youngest on this board.

But yeah typical tory, deflecting and not responding to what I said.