Alistair20000
Very well known Exeweb poster
You left out a new relief for betting lossesIf Liz Truss really isn’t bothered about making unpopular decisions, she should tell the country that those people with jobs and with money are going to have it a bit tougher than normal for the next two years or so, and that the bottom 20% or so of the country in terms of wealth and income are going to find it really tough, so we need to support them.
The wealthy will have to have two holidays a year instead of three or four, they’ll have to drop down a level or two with their olive oil and their whiskey, and they’ll have to accept that life is a mixture of good years and not as good years, and this is a time when they will have a ‘not as good’ year or two, but it’s nothing compared to the bottom 20% or so.
Then she should increase the PA to £25k for 12 months, remove VAT from energy bills for 12 months, increase universal credit and maybe also increase the 20% tax band by another £10k or £20k to help middle England. But leave the top rates as they are and leave the CT rate increase as it was first announced as everyone had already priced it in.
Not afraid of making unpopular decisions? Bollox, she’s just pandered to the wealthy. Her recent decisions will only be unpopular with the people who have very little, and she doesn’t care about that. Like someone has already said, it’ll be interesting to see the reactions in the former red wall constituencies.