There’s no point trying to spin it, it’s best to be honest.
Yesterday was a crap day for Reform in all the Westminster and local council by elections.
I’ve said before, we need a handful of policies that will put money back into people’s pockets.
Something that is very easy to sell on the doorstep.
Actual amounts of money or tax cuts that people can work out themselves for them.
Eg.
Abolish the TV licence. A person will know what they’ve paid and knows what this will save them.
Abolish VAT on electricity and gas. People can divide their bill by 1.05 to work out what it will save them.
Increase the personal allowance by £500. This will save them £100 in income tax.
It’s all well and good saying how much Reform will save by binning illegals and Net Zero, but a person will not know how much THEY will save personally.
Putting out cast iron policies saving people actual amounts of money are the most sellable, something people can grasp instantly.
Cost it by abolishing big ticket items like Overseas Aid plus a recruitment freeze in the civil service.
Get on with it.
@DanielGoldersUK@kelvmackenzie The problem with that figure is that the DWP think pensions are a benefit, of which they are not. Otherwise, it would be tax-exempt.
@LeeHurstComic I have always said to many people that if you can not be bothered to get your arse go the polling station, you do not have the right to complain.
It would be better to adopt the aussie method and fine those that do not go to vote.
OH Before I Forget...
Mrs Burnham is a Director for the EV Charging Company:
Be.EV
Who got a Contract (Large) with:
TfGM = Transport for Greater Manchester
BOSS: TfGM Executive Board Appointments - Andy Burnham
Attached: Burnham's Apology...
Breaking. Zack Polanski claimed he worked for a Ministry of Justice committee which did not actually exist. After claiming to be a spokesperson for the Red Cross when he was not, and claiming to be a full member of the National Council for Hypnotherapy, when he was not.
Don’t let them eat cake!
Just when you thought you’d heard it all from Labour, this happened…
Labour run Bassetlaw District Council, which covers part of my constituency, is imposing a tax on people selling homemade cakes or fresh eggs from boxes at their front gates.
They’ve set this absurd tax at an astonishing £1,007. Yes, you read that correctly, everyone who has the audacity to try to make a few quid from a bit of home baking, or offers boxes of fresh eggs, usually with an honesty box, has to pay Labour a stonking great fee for the privilege.
As most people don’t even make £1,007 a year for doing this, presumably this is designed to end this harmless and in fact very endearing practice altogether.
Honesty boxes, eggs, cakes, biscuits, sold at a farm gate or the end of the driveway in a rural village.. what could be more quintessentially English. Well, not under Labour. These people govern us as if they hate our country.
To make the whole thing more absurd, the fine for failing to pay the £1,007 had been set at £1,000. So you would be better off not paying at all and get fined…
I’ve written to Bassetlaw District Council to protest. Bassetlaw’s common sense Reform UK councillors are committed to reversing this idiocy if they take control of the council next year. Another reason to boot out Labour and back Reform UK.
Has there ever been a more incompetent and out of touch group of people running our country than this Labour government and their town hall toadies?
@ArchRose90@itsterry Erm, a woman who thinks boys can be girls and men who sell the country's gold for pennies. I'm sure that's going to sort everything out. Stramer has clearly lost the plot.