Budget bunkum
KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are taking the British people for mugs if they think they haven’t broken their manifesto promise not to raise taxes on working people.
Whatever the Chancellor says about leaving “rates” unchanged, her threshold freeze HAS hit millions of workers with a massive tax rise lasting years.
The Budget showed she and the PM — their survival dependent on pleasing a bloc of left-wing MPs — have decided the needs of benefits claimants trump those who are breaking their backs to work.
While Starmer and Reeves have committed to huge extra welfare spending on handouts for the jobless, most of the key revenue-raising taxes have been backdated until after 2028.
How will they fill the gap? By borrowing an extra £179BILLION.
There are also doubts about whether some of her tax-raising measures will ever work.
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Yesterday Reeves was clueless on the details of pay-per-mile road pricing for new electric cars.
Officials scrambled to clarify that MOT test centres would offer free annual checks paid for by the Government.
So, another needlessly bureaucratic system not guaranteed to raise what was promised.
The one bit of good news yesterday was Labour’s U-turn on its manifesto plan to offer all workers the right to claim unfair dismissal from the first day in a job. It was always a mad idea.
Any chance they might now belatedly see sense on everything else?
Inn-sane
LABOUR’S solemn promise to end the use of asylum hotels is being broken.
Numbers of illegal migrants housed at a cost of £15billion have gone UP by 13 per cent.
That is bound to anger working voters who have just been slapped with huge tax rises.
Overall, legal migration is down 70 per cent thanks largely to a Tory crackdown on dependants.
But Labour must also take the “credit” for driving a record number of Brits to quit the country, most of them aged 16-35.
Coupled with EU workers also leaving for home, it seems the only people who now want to come to Britain are lower-skilled workers from poor, war-torn countries.
You the jury
IT’S funny how the Left always howls that leaving the ECHR to stop the small boats would destroy our human rights.
Yet Labour seems perfectly happy to rip up centuries of fundamental legal rights to scrap trial by jury.
Anyone who has spent time in our courts knows it is not juries which waste time and money. It’s the shambolic handling of prosecutions.
Missing witnesses and evidence, too many closed courts and a short working day do far more to clog up the system.
