Budget
Last week’s Tory budget takes our country back 30years. We are heading back to the dark years of the early 80’s when, for the Tories your unemployment was a price worth paying and when unemployment in this constituency was 30% in places.
When two of Mrs Thatcher’s favourite monetarist gurus, Lord Norman Tebbit and Sir Keith Joseph talked of the need for the unemployed to get on their bikes and leave their families to get jobs in Peter Pan’s never never land; when funding education was to be by Education vouchers (Pupil Premium), i.e. the money goes with the pupil resulting in low income community schools being deprived of core funding whilst private education get direct taxpayers funding per pupil on top of their tax exemptions.
Historically only the Tories have increased VAT and as I predicted the new Chancellor Osborne raised VAT to 20%. He froze wage increases and announced that pensions will go up with wage inflation (sic); brought forward the increase in the retirement age to 66 by 4 years and the Pensions Minister further announced that it could go up to 70 in 10 years. Child benefit frozen. Disability benefits cut. Public services, jobs and pensions savaged and whilst Osborne was setting this all out in his Budget, the trilogy of Lib/Dem treachery, Nick Clegg, Vince Cable and Danny Alexander sat with Cameron’s Tories and cheered.
Budget
Budget
Last week’s Tory budget takes our country back 30years. We are heading back to the dark years of the early 80’s when, for the Tories your unemployment was a price worth paying and when unemployment in this constituency was 30% in places.
When two of Mrs Thatcher’s favourite monetarist gurus, Lord Norman Tebbit and Sir Keith Joseph talked of the need for the unemployed to get on their bikes and leave their families to get jobs in Peter Pan’s never never land; when funding education was to be by Education vouchers (Pupil Premium), i.e. the money goes with the pupil resulting in low income community schools being deprived of core funding whilst private education get direct taxpayers funding per pupil on top of their tax exemptions.
Historically only the Tories have increased VAT and as I predicted the new Chancellor Osborne raised VAT to 20%. He froze wage increases and announced that pensions will go up with wage inflation (sic); brought forward the increase in the retirement age to 66 by 4 years and the Pensions Minister further announced that it could go up to 70 in 10 years. Child benefit frozen. Disability benefits cut. Public services, jobs and pensions savaged and whilst Osborne was setting this all out in his Budget, the trilogy of Lib/Dem treachery, Nick Clegg, Vince Cable and Danny Alexander sat with Cameron’s Tories and cheered.