Well let’s hope this country doesn’t go to war during the Starmer years…if the delicate little flower can’t handle criticism of his freebies and his policies, he’d sure as hell crack under and real pressure.
In opposition, Rishi Sunak is doing a better job than he ever did as Prime Minister. He’s using basic common sense to show the nonsense that Starmer is peddling.
As an example, Starmer’s promise not to raise NI, he was challenged by Sunak on whether this included the employer contribution, and Starmer refused to answer. If employer contribution goes up, that extra cost of employing someone get passed onto employees anyway, through things like less pay rises, overtime or cutting hours. If it doesn’t, it gets passed onto the customers instead, so it causes things like food prices to rise.
What Starmer is trying to do, is disguise his tax rises with this ‘won’t raise tax on working families’ routine. He’s not raising the obvious tax that people see printed in their wage slip…but he’ll do it in every other way possible.
What the Tories really need to do now is avoid focus on ‘families’. Any family with children is already entitled to massive amounts of government support. Someone unemployed or on a low enough income can get £5k per year spent on each child’s state education, get £600+ per month housing benefits, council tax benefit, child tax credits worth thousands per year, child benefit worth again over a thousand per year. They can get free dental and prescriptions for their child, they may even get their child fed for free by the school. Labour love this model of throwing more money at ‘families’ than they are contributing in return in taxation…while those who don’t have children or are pensioners continually get screwed over.
Tories need to reel in the non-family vote, not every household is a ‘family’, they should focus on what the government is doing for everyone else…which under Labour is likely to be much less, which they’ve already started on by taking away winter fuel allowance.
