Another Angry Voice
Keir Starmer's "Life Is Going To Get Worse" speech is absolutely jam-packed with lies, distortions, and economically illiterate drivel, but probably the biggest deception amongst the lot is his claim that "those with the broadest shoulders will have to bear the burden".
So:
Is Starmer planning to increase Corporation Tax so that capitalists at least pay the same tax rate as the workers they exploit?
No
Is he going to introduce a Wealth Tax on millionaires to help fund public services?
No
Is he going to equalise Capital Gains Tax and Income Tax so that the idle rich at least pay the same tax rate on their unearned profits as workers pay on their wages?
No
Is he going to do something about the absurd Council Tax system that classifies ordinary family homes in the same band as mansions, castles, and country manors?
No
Is he going to take Britain's vital infrastructure and services (water, energy, transport, health, mail, education ...) out of the hands of the greedy private profiteers who have been milking British families and the British economy dry for decades?
No
Is he going to get rid of the absurd National Insurance tax break for ultra-high earners which allows them to pay lower NI rates than people on ordinary incomes?
No
Is he going to cut off the ridiculous and inexplicable £40 billion per year subsidy for the private banks that arises as a result of the Bank of England paying them interest on the quantitative easing money that was created out of nowhere and credited to them for free?
No
Is he going to clamp down on the greedy buy-to-let slumlords who have bought up virtually all the affordable housing for their exploitative property hoarding schemes?
No (in fact he's just tripled the number of landlord MPs on the Labour benches)
So who are these "people with the broadest shoulders" Starmer says he's going after?
Well the two groups he's targeted in the first couple of month of his regime are pensioners (confiscation of the Winter Fuel Allowance) and people who live in social housing (plans to hike their rents in order to subsidise those who can afford to buy houses).
Is it just me, or are pensioners and people living on council estates not the first people who come to mind when politicians like Starmer talk about "people with the broadest shoulders"?
