Misery ahead for workers
EARLIER this week, Rachel Reeves interrupted the nation’s breakfasts to tell us we all have to do our bit to shore up Britain’s finances.
We’ve spelled out exactly what this might mean for Sun readers who, by the way, have done absolutely nothing to cause this mess.
Such a dismal roll-call of Budget ideas makes us wonder if our Government has any understanding of the lives of ordinary people at all.
No one is safe from this machine-gun attack by the “party of the workers” on actual working-class voters.
After suffering miserable years of falling wages and living standards, why hit working folk with a 2p hit on income tax or rip them off again with another stealth freezing of income thresholds?
How does taking money OUT of their pockets help them survive rampant food price inflation or achieve the Chancellor’s so-called “number one mission” to get growth?
Attacking careful savers nursing a small nest egg by halving the amount they can put into a tax-free cash ISA for a rainy day is also deeply unfair.
Stomach-churning fear
Meanwhile, Labour has clearly learned nothing from monumental outrage at the axing of winter fuel allowance for OAPs.
Somehow the Treasury still thinks pensioners who have grafted all their lives should have their state pensions taxed, too.
Labour ministers — chauffeured in their Government-supplied limousines — clearly have no idea of the stomach-churning fear families have of watching the petrol pump hit close to £100 to fill up the car only to see the tank empty again inside a week.
How else to explain plans to axe the vital 5p fuel duty cut?
Motorists encouraged to switch to electric vehicles to hit unachievable Net Zero targets will also be furious at plans for pay-per-mile road pricing — already dubbed a poll tax on wheels.
If the Government had any grasp or sympathy for the “working people” it claims to defend, minor pleasures like a quick flutter, a pint, or a fag wouldn’t all be facing unnecessary taxes which also risk creating dangerous black markets.
Meanwhile, let’s not forget how Labour is spending your hard-earned cash.
A ballooning benefits system allowing people to choose NOT to go to work.
Billions on asylum hotels and £132,000 on a fence in Northern France to protect the FRENCH from small boat migrants. More money blown on police manhunts for foreign criminals let out by mistake.
A bloated, quango-stuffed State run by half a million civil servants repeatedly failing the public and an unproductive and unreformed NHS.
There’s still time before she finalises her Budget for the Chancellor to make much better choices. Over to you, Rachel.
