"The cost of tax exemption for assets is devastating"
The next prime minister to say this fixes the economy. Go.
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I'll take a main of Labour, hold the Labour and also, could you leave out all left please and add some extra ring wing, thanks!
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Good thing we can tax the billionaires then, now can’t we?
I think he’s got the wrong part of devastating.
Cutting the meagre money ~~hundreds of thousands~~ millions rely on to survive and surely causing excess deaths in the process is devastating.
Millions. But yeah agree entirly.
A month ago he told us of his plans to “Unleash AI” To ‘increase efficiency’ - a phrase long proved synonymous with cutting jobs.
Would love to know what work he expects people to do when they’re kicked off sickness benefits.
Perhaps they will leave their wheelchairs behind and become bricklayers.
He is delivering a future inequality instead of alleviating it.
It’s all just so incoherent. I would settle for anyone who had the inclination to build functional society for the future, instead of the staid old ideas of slavish adherence to neoliberal economics. Academia is yelling out that they have seen the end of that road and it does not look good.
"The cost of 0 VAT on financial services is devastating. "
And only used by the wealthy.
Why should someone who needs an accountants time get it tax free. But needing a plumbers time dose not.
Disabled and ill peons don't hand out shares and consultancy jobs to politicians.
Disability benefit claimants can't fight back with armies of lobbyists and lawyers, like the US based companies such as Amazon and Meta who not only avoid paying billions in tax every year, but get paid by UKgov to "invest in infrastructure" they need to profit from UK consumers.
"The Labour Party" are choosing to take from the poorest and most needy and give it to giant multinationals, as the Tories before them.
Relevant reading, published today 20/03/2025;
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cmselect/cmtrans/770/report.html
They know being disabled is harder, far more stressful, and more expensive, they simply don't give a fuck.
Edit: They know way more than the horseshit they're feeding us about it, and they refuse to publish the reports that poke holes in their excuses.
Disabled people already don't make enough to live off of,and they can't do anything about it. They already live in poverty, how much do we want to make them suffer?
Going after them and adding more stress is just terrible.
He should be ashamed of himself. He is going to kill people, blood on his hands.
Is there any chance of a rebellion within Labour over this?
With Reform neck and neck with Labour, not a chance. The UK's first past the post system means every lost vote for Labour is a vote for Reform. Labour voters aren't going to risk a Reform government. Of course, the next election is many years away, and much can happen in that time.
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Absolute fucking pig of a human.
How much does this guy get paid?
You know what costs more?
Plague.
The UK longs for the 1800s. And they are going to try to go back.
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