Topic: | No denials regarding tax rises from Labour supporters | |
Posted by: | David Giles | |
Date/Time: | 02/02/05 18:47:00 |
It is interesting to note that no Labour supporters have denied that major tax rises are inevitable if Labour is re-elected. Indeed the Prime Minister himself has refused to rule them out - even though he did before the 1997 and 2001 elections. But then of course he controlled the Labour Party and The Government but Gordon Brown does now. Tony Blair is just the PR front-man and Foreign Secretary (with apologies to poor Jack Man of Straw) According to the well respected, independent and partially-Government financed Institute of Fiscal Studies, Gordon Brown is facing a £11 billion deficit in the public finances. And Tony Blair is understandably trying to reduce some of the £7 billion spent on disability allowances by trying to persuade some of the nearly 3 million who are claiming them to go to work. Reducing public expenditure would normally be Gordon Brown's job but Gordon Brown is dedicated to spreading the dependency culture whereas Tony Blair at least recognises how sad, sinful and wasteful it is. |