Dec 28, 2024 07:41 PM
Britons believe 2025 will be worse than 2024 in blow for Starmer
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/12/28/brit...r-starmer/
RELEASE: According to a new poll, Britons are predicting that 2025 will be a worse year for the country than 2024 – by a thumping two-to-one majority. The Telegraph has the details.
Half of Britons believe next year will be worse than this year against only 23% who believe it will be better, according to the survey of more than 2,400 people by pollsters More in Common.
Nearly one in five (18%) believe it will be “much worse” with just over a quarter (27%) saying 2025 will remain the same.
Labour voters are more optimistic with 48% saying it will be better, against 30% who say it will be worse. Reform U.K. supporters are the most pessimistic, with 65% saying 2025 will be worse, although it was 64% among Tories.
More than two-thirds of the public believe Sir Keir’s Government will fail to deliver in 2025 on two key metrics – reducing the number of migrants crossing the Channel or reducing the number of people on NHS waiting lists.
Luke Tryl, Executive Director of More in Common, said the poll reflected a “pervasive sense of national gloom which has set upon us”. He attributed it to a double whammy of the public’s ongoing disillusionment with the Government combined with disappointment that Labour had failed to deliver on its “Change agenda”.
While they believe Sir Keir will remain in Number 10, little has changed, they say. Some 66% of the public say that Labour seems like “more of the same” compared with the previous government, while only 34% say they seem genuinely different.
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Italy's far-right government wins final approval for its 30-billion-euro budget
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po...70961.html
RELEASE: Italy’s parliament on Saturday approved the government’s 2025 budget, worth a total of 30 billion euros ($31 billion) — more than half of that in tax cuts and social security benefits for low-income citizens. The measures, pushed by the far-right cabinet headed by Premier Giorgia Meloni, won final approval in the Upper House by 108 votes to 63.
The country’s center-left opposition had harshly criticized the economic package, saying it didn’t meet the premier’s pledges to slash taxes for most Italians and boost employment.
Meloni has staunchly defended the budget, stressing its “wide balance” and its aim to support low and medium-income earners and families with children, while adding resources for the country’s struggling health system. “We used the limited resources available to strengthen the main measures approved during the past years, making them structural and widening them to include a larger audience,” the premier said after the budget’s final approval.
The package includes a 1,000-euro bonus for the parents of newborns, with wealthier families excluded, as part of efforts to reverse Italy’s declining birth rate. Banks, which have enjoyed high profits in recent years thanks to falling interest rates, will be asked to contribute 3.5 billion euros to the budget, which will to go the national health system.
Italy is under pressure from the European Union to slash its deficit after huge spikes in 2022 and 2023, and has pledged to bring it below the EU’s 3% of GDP ceiling in 2026.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/12/28/brit...r-starmer/
RELEASE: According to a new poll, Britons are predicting that 2025 will be a worse year for the country than 2024 – by a thumping two-to-one majority. The Telegraph has the details.
Half of Britons believe next year will be worse than this year against only 23% who believe it will be better, according to the survey of more than 2,400 people by pollsters More in Common.
Nearly one in five (18%) believe it will be “much worse” with just over a quarter (27%) saying 2025 will remain the same.
Labour voters are more optimistic with 48% saying it will be better, against 30% who say it will be worse. Reform U.K. supporters are the most pessimistic, with 65% saying 2025 will be worse, although it was 64% among Tories.
More than two-thirds of the public believe Sir Keir’s Government will fail to deliver in 2025 on two key metrics – reducing the number of migrants crossing the Channel or reducing the number of people on NHS waiting lists.
Luke Tryl, Executive Director of More in Common, said the poll reflected a “pervasive sense of national gloom which has set upon us”. He attributed it to a double whammy of the public’s ongoing disillusionment with the Government combined with disappointment that Labour had failed to deliver on its “Change agenda”.
While they believe Sir Keir will remain in Number 10, little has changed, they say. Some 66% of the public say that Labour seems like “more of the same” compared with the previous government, while only 34% say they seem genuinely different.
Worth reading in full.
Italy's far-right government wins final approval for its 30-billion-euro budget
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po...70961.html
RELEASE: Italy’s parliament on Saturday approved the government’s 2025 budget, worth a total of 30 billion euros ($31 billion) — more than half of that in tax cuts and social security benefits for low-income citizens. The measures, pushed by the far-right cabinet headed by Premier Giorgia Meloni, won final approval in the Upper House by 108 votes to 63.
The country’s center-left opposition had harshly criticized the economic package, saying it didn’t meet the premier’s pledges to slash taxes for most Italians and boost employment.
Meloni has staunchly defended the budget, stressing its “wide balance” and its aim to support low and medium-income earners and families with children, while adding resources for the country’s struggling health system. “We used the limited resources available to strengthen the main measures approved during the past years, making them structural and widening them to include a larger audience,” the premier said after the budget’s final approval.
The package includes a 1,000-euro bonus for the parents of newborns, with wealthier families excluded, as part of efforts to reverse Italy’s declining birth rate. Banks, which have enjoyed high profits in recent years thanks to falling interest rates, will be asked to contribute 3.5 billion euros to the budget, which will to go the national health system.
Italy is under pressure from the European Union to slash its deficit after huge spikes in 2022 and 2023, and has pledged to bring it below the EU’s 3% of GDP ceiling in 2026.