DOOM: Tories

[SueEllen]

You'd make a great Chancellor for Labour, you should join the party.

He's Russian not Chinese.

[_V_]

You'd make a great Chancellor for Labour, you should join the party.

[AtW]

Labour can now answer "how will you fund all this spending?" by just saying "we will keep the current tax rates and levels" and no one can laugh at them any more.

What they got left is to align CGT/divi with income rate levels, and drop 45% threshold lower to say £80k - anything above 125k will have 60% tax band since it’s already in effect between 100-125k - this way they’ll solve the “anomaly”

[_V_]

Labour can now answer "how will you fund all this spending?" by just saying "we will keep the current tax rates and levels" and no one can laugh at them any more.

[AtW]

“The Tories are now more associated with high taxes than Labour, with a majority of voters viewing the Conservatives as a party which raises taxes rather than cuts them.

An exclusive poll for The Telegraph conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies found 42 per cent of people now associate the Tories with high taxes, compared to 17 per cent for Labour.

Meanwhile, some 51 per cent of people said they now most associate the Conservative Party with raising taxes and just 14 per cent said they think of the Tories as having a reputation for lowering taxes.

The poll, conducted the day before the Autumn Statement, suggests that the Tories’ long-term reputation as the party of lower taxes is now firmly under threat.” (AtW’s comment: firmly under threat? )

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...-tax-spending/

Bring back Gordon Bennett!