Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer were going to raise income tax despite their manifesto pledge - Financial Times now reports that they have abandoned those ideas after a backlash from Labour MP's. As Fosse stated on the previous page, I thought they would just change the personal allowances, not sure if that is an option for consideration in the alternative budget plans.
Labour are imprisoned by their manifesto. It was so conservative and weak they have no room for maneuver. This is perplexing tbh because the Tories were so unpopular Labour could have had some real changes in that manifesto and got in anyway.
I'd said before Labour got in that I would have put up income tax. I know people don't like paying tax (see Sucky for details) and I know the Tories for decades have tried to bring it down, but I've mentioned before reflecting on when my family were young and I was struggling to make ends meet, I was somewhat shocked when it got reduced from 25%. It's something you generally use to accept that you had to pay and if you want things to improve in life, it has to come from somewhere. So yup, income tax would and should have been whacked up...the political arguments all around Starmer or Reeves daring to do this just humour me. My beef more than anything is Reeves promising the banking sector to leave them alone - these ****ers have shut branches down all over country, saving on property costs, they've done all the people in those branches out of jobs, yes call centre employment would have gone up, but some of that has been offshored for years. These ****s are milking it... Lloyds Banking Group's statutory profit after tax was £3.3bn for the first nine months of 2025, and its pre-tax profit was approximately £3.5bn for the first half of 2025, an increase of around 5% from the previous year, and this is just one small part of banking. It's obvious that once everything is internet based the banks will bring in more and more charging to boost their profits.
One of the Hamas independents has left the Your Party party to focus on frothing about Jews as an independent independent.
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