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Originally Posted by yesman
Interest rates will rise (great if you have a low mortgage or no mortgage at all, or a few bob in the bank)
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Err interest rates are used to control inflation. When the economy starts working again interest rate rises will be required from whomever is in power to avoid inflation going too high. It has already burst upwards this year and interest rates would likely have already gone up if they weren't being held down to try and stimulate the economy. Mortgage costs and savings rates are not a significant driver for interest rates, it's the larger effects on the economy that are caused. It's not done purely to spite 'working class' people with big mortgages and no savings.
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Higher taxes for the working classes, plus lower taxes for the well off. ( I have no doubt that the 50% tax for the well off will be expunged after a few months of tory rule, should they be elected).
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You mean like their evil, and actually announced as opposed to the assumed one in your statement above, plan to take money away from the working classes by raising the threshold of Labour's NI increase from 10k to 45k. Big time sting for the 'working classes' that one.
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Unless Mr Cameron can convince me that he can see a way forward for this country with a very convincing mandate, then my vote will go elsewhere.
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Use of the phrase 'working class' usually indicates where someone sits on this particular fence. That and the baseless view that the Tories will take all the money from lower income earners and give it to the rich along with raising interest rates purely to spite those same lower income people.
There are a lot of things that one can be critical of the Tories over. This view that they want to take all the money way from the 'working classes' isn't one of them. There isn't any evidence to support that point of view at the moment, the opposite if anything is the case.