Labour promised fiscal responsibility — what we got w as economic vandalism. Rachel Reeves

 is set to deliver her first Spring Statement later this month, and let’s be clear — it’s not an economic plan; it’s a desperate attempt to clean up the wreckage of last year’s disastrous Labour budget. After punishing the private sector, strangling growth, and pouring billions into ideological pet projects like Net Zero, the UK’s finances are now in dire straits. And the price for Labour’s recklessness? More cuts, more borrowing, and yet another assault on working Britons.

Labour came to power on the promise of “fiscal responsibility”. Instead, Reeves blew right through the borrowing limits she set for herself in last year’s budget. She now finds herself in a financial straitjacket, forced to make cuts — not because she believes in spending discipline, but because she has no other choice. Inflation remains stubbornly high, growth has stalled, and borrowing costs have soared. Labour’s solution? Slash welfare, tinker with Whitehall, and hope no one notices the deep economic rot they’ve created.

The Treasury has been forced to propose billions in spending cuts just to stay within Reeves’ self-imposed borrowing rules. Reports suggest these will include welfare reductions, Whitehall “efficiencies,” and regulatory reforms.

All of this is framed as part of a “four-point plan” designed to get the economy back on track. But let’s be honest — this is not a plan; it’s a panic-driven reaction to an economic mess of Labour’s own making.

Take the welfare cuts, for instance. Labour and their union backers screamed about “Tory austerity” for years. Now, just months into government, they’re gearing up to slash benefits.

Labour’s reckless economic management means they must now make cuts, but because they’ve spent so much pandering to their ideological obsessions, they have no choice but to squeeze those who are already struggling.

What’s truly damning is that all of this was avoidable. The UK’s private sector — the engine of our economy — has been suffocated by Labour’s high-tax, high-regulation approach. Businesses, both large and small, are being strangled by excessive taxes, while Net Zero madness forces British industry to operate with one hand tied behind its back. The result? Stagnation.

Productivity is down, investment is drying up, and Labour has left itself with almost no fiscal room to manoeuvre.

And what of the great promise to “get Britain building”? Labour’s planning reforms are supposed to unlock growth, yet there is no serious drive to tackle the red tape that prevents businesses from expanding and infrastructure from being built. Their regulatory “reforms” will be little more than box-ticking exercises — designed to look impressive but delivering nothing of real substance.

The most telling sign of Labour’s economic failure is the growing desperation inside Downing Street. Sources report that Number 10 is pulling out all the stops to prop up Rachel Reeves, terrified that her disastrous handling of the economy will damage Starmer.

The truth is, Starmer has outsourced so much of his economic policy to Reeves that any failure on her part reflects directly on him. Their so-called “fiscal discipline” is an illusion — what we are really witnessing is an administration scrambling to avoid an economic implosion of their own making.

Here’s the hard truth: Labour came in promising to fix Britain’s economy, yet just months later, they’re forced to make painful cuts to meet their own failed targets. They spent recklessly on pet projects, weakened Britain’s economic foundations, and are now desperately searching for ways to clean up their mess without admitting fault.

Britain deserves better than this chaos. We need a government that understands business, champions growth, and puts the nation’s interests before ideological fantasies. Instead, we have Labour — taxing, borrowing, and now slashing in a desperate bid to stay afloat. The Spring Statement will not be a vision for a better Britain — it will be a grim reminder of what happens when you let economic incompetents run the show.