We have seen major U-turn after upturn, from welfare reforms, winter fuel payments, and the national grooming scandal. With inflation up, unemployment up, borrowing costs up, and growth down, tax rises are widely predicted.
From Labour’s false claims that council tax bills would not go up, to their Jobs Tax killing economic growth, the failure to smash the gangs as small boat crossings surge, spending billions whilst surrendering the Chagos Islands, hitting rural communities with a family farm tax and releasing serious criminals out of prison early, the newspaper front pages from their first year show how hopeless they are. And when Reform are asked about how they would grow the economy, they return to ideas closer to Jeremy Corbyn’s view of the world - scrapping the two child benefit cap hiking welfare spending, more government intervention in business, fantasy unfunded economic pledges, and bans such as energy battery storage which will cost consumers more.
And now hypocrisy from Angela Raynor
After all the noise she said about Conservative ministers like Jeremy Hunt, it turns out he’s done nothing wrong. Yet the same scrutiny doesn’t seem to apply to them, Time to call it out! double standards in action, especially when accountability should be universal.
Let’s demand fairness across the board.