Starmer’s chronicles

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth

What did those fools expect with their attacks on employment? They sacrificed the economy on the idiotic promise of not raising consumer taxes.

The country needs to raise more taxes due to increasing MoD, NHS spend, etc. But instead of putting an honest penny on income tax, the government has raised the costs of employing people by increasing NI. This makes the country less competitive and dampens growth.

Someone (a reporter for the Times) once explained to me and a group of colleagues that the way to make a graph look more dramatic in a story was to only show a small section of of the overall chart (the bit that backs up your story), and don’t start the y axis at 0 (as a change from 4% to 5% looks starker/more negative that way…

For instance, in the Sky story



From the ONS website



https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentand...eries/mgsx/lms

Don’t get me wrong, unemployment increasing by 20% since Labour came to office isn’t good, but this level of unemployment in not unusual for any Government…