A government has never been more hypocritical and enraging than Keir Starmer’s Labour government.
Promise after promise has been broken. Taxes up by £40 billion – and now Starmer warns us of “ruthless” spending cuts. Higher taxes plus cutting spending equals austerity. It’s a simple equation. And the Labour politicians behind this crippling austerity are the ones who bemoaned and heckled the Conservative austerity programme to recover from the financial crisis.
Constantly directing the blame at 14 years of Conservative government won’t wash with people.
Who hiked taxes by £40 billion after promising not to, leaving Britain with a hiring crisis that will undoubtedly spike unemployment? Labour.
Who cut Winter Fuel Payments for pensioners, abandoning our vulnerable elderly relatives who dedicated their entire lives to this country, yet find themselves freezing in these Siberian conditions? Labour.
Which party’s Prime Minister accepted over £107,345 in lavish gifts, after endlessly pledging to cut the corruption from our politics? Labour’s.
It is Labour who have crashed the economy. Starmer is talking complete balderdash when he painfully repeats that the Conservatives left the economy in a mess. Inflation was back down to the 2% target and the UK was the fastest growing economy in the G7 when Labour took the reins. After just six months of Labour, inflation is up to 3.5% – increasing your food bills – and borrowing costs are so high that we’ll need Noah’s Ark to relocate all our fleeing businesses and investors.
But wait! Rachel Reeves has the antidote. Labour’s Chancellor fled the country, undoubtedly attempting to make amends for her insofar utterly disastrous budget. Reeves went to China in search of investment, returning with the grand sum of £600 million… over five years.
£120 million a year from an economy worth over $37 trillion (PPP) is like robbing a bank and coming out with 50 pence. Genuinely, how is it physically possible for Rachel Reeves to dip her hand into the pockets of the largest economy in the world by a country mile, yet still only pull out the square root of zero.
A recession handmade by Labour in Downing Street is just around the corner, mark my words.
I have never been so angry writing an article. How dare Starmer suffocate the British people with more austerity? How dare he break his promises left, right and centre with no repercussions? And how dare he continue to lay the blame at somebody else’s door, when it is his government’s ignorant idiocy that has caused this crisis?
Rachel Reeves and Starmer have droned on about this £22 billion black hole left by the Conservatives for far too long. We all know this is a lie. The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg has already spilled the beans that over £9 billion of this ‘black hole’ was created by Labour’s 22% pay rise for junior doctors immediately after entering office.
Just look at all the skeletons in Keir Starmer’s cupboard. Pensioners. British farmers. The self-employed. Businesses. Even students aren’t safe. I bet they all thought voting Labour was a one-way ticket to scrapping tuition fees – only for Starmer to not only abandon his pledge to abolish tuition fees, but to let slip they might be increasing even further.
At this point, if you’re as depressed as me reading all this, you might be tempted to go on holiday and forget Keir Starmer even exists while laying on a beach reading Unleashed by Boris Johnson and getting all sentimental. Unfortunately, you can’t. Labour have been rumbled so badly by the markets that there’s a run on the pound – meaning when you go to the little old lady in the Post Office to exchange your pounds for another currency, you’ll find you won’t even have enough Euros to buy a coffee.
Labour have done what they always do. Tax, tax, tax. Spend, spend, spend. And the result for Britain is always the same. No jobs, no growth, just misery.
The worst thing is that this was just so predictable. It is unbelievably saddening to see voters get played by yet more political con artists who promised so much and deliver so little.
This all begs the question, who are you meant to believe? Unfortunately, but unsurprisingly, I suspect many will turn to an anti-establishment outsider who wears a cloak to disguise the fact they are cut from the same old cloth. We’ve had Trump in America. If this saga goes on, it’ll be Farage in Britain.
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