- Jul 10, 2003
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I’d start by increasing tax on the wealthiest in society, crack down on nom-doms, off-shore corporations and huge companies like Amazon who pay pennies in tax relative to their fair share.
What I wouldn’t be doing with any hope of not being a one term wonder would be scraping figurative pennies hitting the worst off in society.
They rushed into WFA, which their own studies right up until last year said was important in saving the lives of thousands of indigent pensioners each winter.
It was poorly communicated, poorly planned with not enough checks and balances in place, no massive front and centre campaign to get those eligible onto pension credits (which, of course, they don’t actually want as it would cost multiple times what they’re saving from paying WFA) and all done very late in the year giving people very little time to adjust and make savings to accommodate this cut.
I fully appreciate you, @Guinness Boy and other Labour loyalists will not budge on this, or criticise anything your party does. That is your right. Much as it is for the hardcore Tory supporters on here. But there’s no point truly in having a reasoned debate where one side of the discussion thinks it’s their duty to defend everything the government does, right or wrong, because it’s their team.
You see this in football too, the tribalism. You could have one of our players walk up and punch an opposition player in the face out of nowhere, and more than one person on here will defend their actions because of the shirt they’re wearing.
WFA is a f*** up. A massive f*** up which is very likely to massively hurt their chances of a second term, because all those pensioners - if they survive the coming winters - are going right back to the Tories.
So, if that is the case, why have myself and @Guinness Boy both said, on this thread, many times that the implementation of the WFA is an almighty cock-up