[Ammi]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I fully accept they inherited the worst possible if any government since the war.

However IF you need to break pledges or have to take more urgent action..
Then for me, the one to break is income tax.

None of this bits here and there, bringing in uncertainty and getting sections of communities and businesses backs up.
Just put income tax up,even for just for 3 to 4 years.
Then look at reducing it again when probable.

No one will like it but realising that would be the only change for a while could have been more palatable.
I've never understood why Parties won't say they'll put up income tax.
We never know what's round the corner and when circumstances may require changes to it.

The Con manifesto of 2019 PROMISED national insurance would never rise under Johnson.
Then he did put it up.
An income tax rise across the board, would give all and more Reeves may need.
I certainly wouldn't object to paying a small percentage extra in tax.

…yeah it was definitely always going to be a poison chalice’ time in office wasn't it, Joey…but even with that, there has to be seen to be some scales of balance and some reasoning to it all…some positives, if you like…but sadly there doesn’t seem to be that at all …job losses will lead to poor mental health as well as poor physical health and hey ho, the NHS just isn’t functioning anymore …job losses also lead to more poverty and more poverty leads to more crime and hey ho with the struggling prisons as well as police presence having been reduced to the bone over the years….its all just a badly thought out mess…and the world we live in atm is different from in the past in that it’s all media led …/…both mainstreams and social media’s atm, the Labour are having no support from any public area, which is bad for them, yes….but so bad for us as a nation…