The game is up. Labour’s tax increases could be the largest on record, shattering their manifesto pledges Source - Daily Telegraph - Link It is an extraordinary scandal, a breach of trust on a monumental scale. Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are feeding us a fake narrative, a farrago of downright lies, exaggerations, obfuscations and Orwellian double-speak designed to gaslight us into accepting what could be the largest peacetime tax increase by a Chancellor in one Budget. The Government has barely spoken a single truth on economic or fiscal matters since gaining power, and is now threatening to breach the letter and the spirit of its manifesto. It keeps increasing the size of the “black hole” that is supposedly compelling this unprecedented assault on taxpayers: originally £22 billion, it is now being put at £40 billion, prompting talk of fiscal tightening of up to £50 billion. We could end up with a 2 per cent of GDP tax increase, combined with higher borrowing on the back of r
Source - Low Status Opinions 15/10/24 I don’t know about you, but I’m old enough to recall the fall of Rishi Sunak’s Tory government. No one mourned its passing. By the end, the fetid stench of rot and decay hung over the whole sorry enterprise. An administration despised by the entire nation, but loathed most of all, by its own erstwhile supporters. Traditional Tory voters who had watched incredulous as the party of Churchill, Thatcher and er, Hague, drifted forever leftwards. Betraying its core principles, and surrendering ever more of our nation’s culture, history, and values to the wreckers, critical theorists, and haters. Younger readers are unlikely to appreciate the genuine relief we all experienced, when after fourteen long years of Tory atrophy, incompetence, sleaze, and treachery, Sunak’s hapless administration finally collapsed in on itself in the spring of 2024. Its final act of wilful self immolation, to call an election months before it was obliged to do so. As if even i