polly barker💙🇳🇵
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@pollollups
doing 15 things at once - badly
So many bad things in the Budget but the attack on family farms is Stalinist. Really Stalinist.
#Budget There is no point in talk of investing in police investigations, in the protection of women and girls, in “swift justice” and building new prisons if the essential part of the justice system, the trial process is so underfunded that by the time a trial can take place, the witnesses have walked away. If six years or so are allowed to pass before a matter comes to trial, even more will do so.
Voters do not know / significantly misperceive state spending. This should worry every policy maker. Some quick excel work I’ve done pulling data from @TheIFS and other sources for 2023.
