Andy Burnham says the public finances are “challenging” and refuses to rule out further tax rises.
But Britain does not have a shortage-of-taxpayer problem.
It has a government that finds it easier to raise more from workers, savers and employers than to confront waste, weak productivity, sprawling bureaucracy and programmes that fail to deliver.
The cost-of-living crisis is a cost-of-government crisis.
Well aren't HMRC the charmers? "Sorry to hear that you have recently been bereaved. Please send us all this information about your dead relatives income and their tax return for 2025 by the end of October or we'll fine their eatate". Such a delicate tone. Beautiful work lads.
This is ridiculous @JohnHealey_MP. You collaborated in a coup and removed Starmer - the leader that Labour Members and voters had supported - only to reject the premise of your previous resignation. We aren't stupid, and we expect detailed answers.
Bang to rights.
This clip is so devastating, not just for Wes Streeting, but for Healey and Burnham too.
There’s simply no way for them to spin their way out of it.
Someone was lying about Labour’s willingness to fund defence spending properly weren’t they?
John Healey's resignation as defence secretary:
"You have been unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats."
Now he is Chancellor, he is "unable" and "unwilling".
@JohnHealey_MP
@GBNEWS Didn’t they both say (pre-Meghan), that they wouldn’t talk about their mother publicly again after whatever big anniversary it was at the time…??🤔
Omg GET OUT OF OUR LIVES!
No government has ANY BUSINESS acting as some sort of agent for our private building work!!
When Andy Burnham came in, I said that i worried he was a much better salesman, a much nicer man to push forward the same agenda: a Big-State, controlling entity guiding us into the inescapable digital cage in which money is pushed upwards and we plebs must be grateful of being "kept safe."
This app to "protect you" from cowboy builders is merely surveillance dressed up as benevolence.
It will require ALL the details of your build: address, list of works, photos, payments etc etc...a great way to check on you and how much your house is worth.
Just imagine the outcry if Starmer had suggested this nervously from a podium!!
But as it's Freddo Andy, it must be good for you.... this is a tipping point for me.
They've shown their hand.
PAY ATTENTION.
🚨 A FATAL WARNING TO BRITAIN: ANDY BURNHAM'S UPCOMING BUDGET IS ABOUT TO BREAK OUR COUNTRY'S BACK!
I do not think people truly understand just how dangerous Prime Minister Andy Burnham and this socialist Labour Government really are.
Leading economic analysts are warning that the upcoming October Budget is designed to pluck the British public until there is literally nothing left but bare skin.
Look at the terrifying hit list of tax raids Burnham is lining up for your household!
A brand new wealth tax on your property, a massive 28 percent hike on capital gains, a 40 percent inheritance tax raid, and a devastating 10 percent death tax to fund his social care schemes!
Entrepreneurs, investors, and family business owners are already fleeing Great Britain in record numbers, with claims for business relief collapsing by 25 percent.
Socialism always runs out of other people's money, but Burnham is accelerating our national bankruptcy at lightning speed. When you punish and destroy everyone who creates wealth, nobody is left to keep the lights on.
RT and SHARE this everywhere to sound the alarm before Labour breaks Britain for good! 🇬🇧🔥
@DaveKent101 I thought he had more about him but he obviously has his head easily turned by a chocolate bar and a pkt of pork scratchings…🙁
We’re clearly being governed by morons.