Labour says it wants growth, not tax rises

[AtW]

UK coronavirus live: Labour says it wants growth, not tax rises, ahead of Sunak's summer statement | Politics | The Guardian

[elsergiovolador]

I thought I would never say that but I have a feeling that we would be better off if we had voted Labour. I don't think they would have no rights employment in store and their planned tax hikes were nothing in comparison to the IR35 mess.

[ShandyDrinker]

I thought I would never say that but I have a feeling that we would be better off if we had voted Labour. I don't think they would have no rights employment in store and their planned tax hikes were nothing in comparison to the IR35 mess.

While I partly agree with the sentiment, I think it is naive to think that no rights employment wouldn't be going ahead. Just remember which party brought in IR35 in the first place. Corbyn would have been a disaster as a hard left agenda would have been followed, taxing anyone out of existence that dared to have savings.

Sadly we needed a much closer election result than we got and preferably a hung parliament yet again. Politics in the UK is currently a mess in general.

[malvolio]

Labour have got into the habit of simply protesting anything the government says - often before they have even said it. I would disregard them until they present something rather more concrete as an alternative.

And this whole thing is not HMG, or even any particular party, it's the Treasury who simply refuse to accept that the days of master/slave have long gone from the labour market. The Chancellor's team are simply listening to misleading advice from one source, rather than listening to others and forming their own opinions.