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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
Exactly. He could probably have gotten away with slightly increasing the taper rate (to go hand in hand with tax threshold increases) and even even perhaps dropping the threshold to what he wanted to for child tax credits, but only for children born after April 2016. I don't think he'd have had any problem getting that through. It also has "transitional protection" built-in.
But he overplayed his hand, was over-confident, under the mistaken belief that the Tories getting into majority government is a sign that people are ready to accept "pretty much anything".
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I totally agree again TS.