After months and months of attacking the Conservatives for planning huge cuts - and promoting fear amongst the electorate -Chancellor Alistair Darling, said today on the BBC, that a Labour Government would make more savage cuts that occurred under Prime Minister Thatcher during the 1980s.
As always, this was a Budget full of smoke and mirrors. Hidden tax hikes, hidden cuts and re-announced measures. It was a Budget, which attempted to get the Government out of a deep hole of its own making and it failed.
Unfortunately, it will hit hard working families in Harlow hard:
- 3p more tax on each litre of petrol;
- 15p more tax on each pack of cigarettes;
- 2p more on each pint of beer, and 10p more on each bottle of wine;
- Higher National Insurance for Harlow's 40,000 workers - an extra tax on jobs, for anyone who earns over £20,000;
- A stealth hike in Income Tax, because the tax bands were frozen instead of rising in line with inflation. At the 20 per cent basic rate, this means that a Harlow taxpayer will lose an extra £48 in income tax this year, while a two-earner couple will be clobbered for an extra £96;
If this were not bad enough, The Budget red book shows that the national debt will soon be £1.4 TRILLION, or £23,114 per head. We will paying back Gordon Brown's debts for generations to come.
by Robert Halfon - www.roberthalfon.blogspot.com
My grandmother used to say of profligates that money burnt holes in their pockets. That's just how it's been for 13 years under this Labour government: a reckless, runaway spending spree, with our money burning a hole in Gordon Brown's pocket.
ReplyDeleteBrown conserved nothing during the good years, he even sold our gold reserves at rock bottom prices, having pre-announced just when he would sell these, thereby encouraging an artificial fall in gold prices and a feeding frenzy by the speculators.What unbelievable stupidity.
Now that Brown has run out of our money, is he finally reigning in his spendaholism? Is he 'eckers like! Nope, he's still spending and still borrowing in all of our names. He reserves vital waste cutting for some mythical future.
But then, what does Brown care? He has a huge salary, much of it in untaxed expenses plus the sort of - not so far in the future - pension and earning prospects to look forward to (like Blair) that, outside politics, only multimillionaire's can afford.