Thread: Starmer’s chronicles
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Old 02-02-2025, 23:18   #759
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Re: Starmer’s chronicles
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy View Post
Real damage to rich people who were advised to buy farm land as a way of avoiding tax and then boasted about doing so in a national newspaper
He says, totally ignoring the elephant in the room, which is the small farmers.

The words babies and at water come to mind, but Labour doesn’t care as long as it takes a few wealth creators down a peg or two.

The class war lives on, it seems. Old habits die hard.

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Originally Posted by Russ View Post
Cool, if you want to ignore the austerity years (which didn’t improve the economy), the £32bn given to their mates, the tax cuts for the millionaires etc to help keep any talk of the Tories out of this, go you. All the power to you.
The austerity years were the means by which we corrected the imbalance in our economy, which was costing a fortune in servicing the rapidly increasing debts that resulted. That imbalance was created by Labour.

You have a very short memory.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
Taxes were going to have to go up whoever took power as spending did not match income and borrowing and public services were at their knees.

Labour backed themselves into a corner and hiked employer's NI. They should have increased income tax and been honest that we were living beyond our means but they weren't and we'll all pay the price indirectly through higher prices.

The only positive unintended consequence it might have is to encourage more automation and therefore help Britain's poor productivity.
Do you really believe that the electorate would have let Labour in if they said they were going to raise taxes?
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