Before the next general election. So there is a lot riding on this and after the chancellor delivers his statement, we will hear from the labour party, they will deliver a response in the House Of Commons to that budget as well. Joining me now is our political correspondence who is our political correspondence who is at Downing Street as well. We saw the chancellor depart from number 11 in the last 20 minutes or so, that budget firmly inside that red box. I was saying earlier, i did a story years later about those red boxes and how they are made, a secretive process, and they are very heavy, about three kilograms, so it takes a muscle to hold that up we knew some of what is in the box, we knew about the 2p reduction in National Insurance but what other rumours swirling around westminster . It is interestin swirling around westminster . It 3 interesting you mention swirling around westminster . It 1 interesting you mention the particle context around this because we think this will be t
about we asked the rcn are here to talk about the we asked the rcn are here to talk about the 50,000 nurse vacancies we have across about the 50,000 nurse vacancies we have across the country, the lack of investment have across the country, the lack of investment into nursing education and the investment into nursing education and the lack of investment into the future and the lack of investment into the future workforce of our nurses. the government future workforce of our nurses. tie: government say that your demands are just unrealistic, that there is not the money to go around and they would have to borrow it and tax more to do it, what do you say to that? come and sit down with us and negotiate with us. we come and sit down with us and negotiate with us. negotiate with us. we have a different view on it to - negotiate with us. we have a different view on it to them l negotiate with us. we have a i different view on it to them and negotiate with us. we have a - differ
i think we vauls have to be suspicious but maybe in his mind it s not such a joke. that is dark and probably necessary to hear. michael beschloss, thank you for that very scary big picture discussion, my friend. my pleasure. be well. stay right with us. time to bask. in low prices!
if you have a period like we have now where the taxes devastated due to both tax cuts and due to the financial crisis and now we re going to have the baby boomers retire and more expenses in the tax code, and then don t allow taxes to rise, eventually you have to end up having to implement something that the ryan budget itself, simply because you don t have a choice. you can do a lot in this country just by not letting taxes rise, even if you never take the next step and say what the policies have to meet the revenues will be. gentlemen, ask you a question. a lot of people who watch the show every night think about this a lot. i want to ask you, now that we have two guys that know what they re talking about here. for the benefit of everybody watching now, why doesn t the american people why don t we have a big debate what percentage of our economy want the federal government to spend and are we willing to pay for it? some sort of big picture discussion. okay, the ages of our popula
have now where the taxes devastated due to both tax cuts and due to the financial crisis and now we re going to have the baby boomers retire and more expenses in the tax code, and then don t allow taxes to rise, eventually you have to end up having to implement something that the ryan budget itself, simply because you don t have a choice. you can do a lot in this country just by not letting taxes rise, even if you never take the next step and say what the policies have to meet the revenues will be. gentlemen, ask you a question. a lot of people who watch the show every night think about this a lot. i want to ask you, now that we have two guys that know what they re talking about here. for the benefit of everybody watching now, why doesn t the american people why don t we have a big debate what percentage of our economy want the federal government to spend and are we willing to pay for it? some sort of big picture discussion. okay, the ages of our population requires more spending o