Jeremy Hunt will vow to 'get Britain growing' later today as he unveils the country's 'biggest ever' business tax cut and new plans to ease the burden on working families.
Publishing his Autumn Statement on the economy, the Chancellor will try to rebuild the Tories' reputation as a low-tax party with a targeted package of measures aimed at helping both business and families.....it's not going to change anything.
The Chancellor will say that ministers are charting a new course on the economy and rejecting 'big government' in the wake of the Covid pandemic and a global spike in energy prices, which have driven both Government borrowing and the tax burden to record levels.
My prediction is that government won't shrink, and will in fact get even bigger.
Too little, too late. The Tories have spent 13 years trashing their reputation. A few cynical tax cuts in the run up to a general election isn't going to change people's minds.
ReplyDeleteLet us all welcome our labour overlords. And God help us.
They should have been doing this stuff the minute that they took office years ago. Only now have they woken up to the fact that Conservative voters actually expect to get a Conservative government when they vote them in? In any case, like you, I simply don't believe anything that they say.
ReplyDeleteRejecting big government?
ReplyDeleteBwa-Ha-Ha-Ha!
They're whistling into the wind; nobody believes a word they say any more, and they'll be gone in a year or so anyway.
You’ll collect on that prediction.
ReplyDeleteBefore they do anything else they need to appoint a Shrinking Tsar, along with a small army of staff. After twenty years they will conclude that there is no room for shrinkage but they assure us that they will stick to their task for another twenty years.
ReplyDeleteIt is a complete "Given" that each and every bureaucracy will concentrate much more on expanding its powers and influence than doing anything else. Governments, all Governments, are guilty of this failing. It is inherent in their very composition.
ReplyDelete"A few cynical tax cuts in the run up to a general election isn't going to change people's minds."
ReplyDeleteCertainly not going to change mine!
"They should have been doing this stuff the minute that they took office years ago."
If they'd been truly conservative, they would have.
"...nobody believes a word they say any more, and they'll be gone in a year or so anyway."
And I can't honestly say we'll be that much worse off! The best we can hope for is a hung Parliament, though right now, I'd prefer to see a hanged one.
"You’ll collect on that prediction."
Sadly true!
" After twenty years they will conclude that there is no room for shrinkage but they assure us that they will stick to their task for another twenty years."
Heh!
"It is inherent in their very composition."
And that of charities too, these days.