"We need to get a handle on this comrades"

Claims have uniquely soared in Britain for both out-of-work incapacity benefit and PIP (the latter seeing a bigger rise than the former).

Nuclear is as safe as wind and solar. Radioactive waste is perfectly safe when stored in an appropriate container and Finland and Sweden (whose examples we should be following, along with France and Switzerland) have pioneered the use of deep geological repositories for permanent storage.

They're not just forecasts. In 2024/25 (just gone) and 2025/26 (ongoing) they increased funding (in real terms) for almost every department.

Some departments will see real terms cuts from 2026/27 onward, but the Tories slashed spending on public services as a whole and slashed capital investment.

One party cut inheritance tax, capital gains tax and the top rate of income tax when they were in office, and caused market turmoil when they tried to pass tens of billions more in tax cuts for the rich.

This Labour government has taxed the wealthy and boosted funding for public services:

This isn’t austerity. Public spending will still be rising by an average of 1.1% per year in real terms from 2026/27 to 2028/29. It’s much more than that in 2024/25 and 2025/26:

This isn’t austerity. Public spending is still set to rise by an average of 1.1% per year in real terms from 2026/27 to 2028/29, according to the article.

And all departments got real terms funding boosts for 2024/25 and 2025/26, with the NHS getting an extra £22.7 billion.

They already taxed the rich to the tune of £15 billion a year in the Budget, allowing them to provide a real terms funding boost to all public services for 2024/25 and 2025/26. NHS waiting lists have fallen for 5 months in a row.