Rachel Reeves blames everyone but herself and her Govt for the shocking state of the UK economy, and is clearly planning to announce massive tax rises that she and Keir Starmer repeatedly promised NOT to level on us. She has no idea what she’s doing.
@Keir_Starmer Illegally entered the country, we paid for him to stay here and commit a crime. Then we let him go and now we will pay for his exit from the country! And in 2 weeks time we will read he has now come back to the UK. Hope he wasn’t one of the doctors everyone talks about😂
He lied to farmers
He lied to students
He lied to the disabled
He lied to pensioners
He lied to council tax payers
He lied to WASPI women
He lied to energy bill payers
He lied on digital ID
He lied on illegal migration
Keir Starmer is the ultimate snake oil salesman.
Keir and his helmet disciples keep saying Digital ID will “modernise” Great Britain. It’s a load of bollex. Before Starmer starts tagging us lot the British public like cattle & sheep, he should start fixing all the disasters him and his team have
caused. Illegal immigration still pouring in and our borders ignored. Our services crumbling before our own eyes, and our everyday bills are threw the roof. But now they want more control over the good, normal hard working British people. A Digital ID might sound harmless until it’s used against ya. One big database for everything like your bank your travel your doctor your job. Say you accidentally miss a payment or you say the wrong thing online? Or the Government don’t like ya politics? Suddenly you can’t access your own money, you can’t book a flight, you can’t even prove who you are. It’s far from freedom, it more control. This country was built on privacy and the right to live without the state breathing down ya neck. Great Britain has always stood for freedom and people have fought and died for it. Starmer’s plan hands over our freedom on a plate. I love this country and I’ll always speak up when something threatens it. Digital ID is dangerous, unnecessary and un-British. God save the King, and God bless the United Kingdom. Do one Starmer you hit old helmet. Bosh❤️
Angela Rayner dodged £40,000 in stamp duty. She didn’t fess up. She got found out.
For weeks Labour ministers claimed that she had done nothing wrong. The Prime Minister defended her and refused to sack her.
But while she was evading her taxes, Labour spent the summer planning to raise property taxes on ordinary law-abiding families at the Budget this November. Angela Rayner was leading the charge, writing to the Treasury in a memo that was then leaked, demanding higher stamp duty.
It’s nothing less than pure hypocrisy. And now the dust is settling on this scandal, it’s clear that Labour has no moral authority to raise taxes on family homes.
Last summer, when I was Shadow Housing Secretary, I faced Rayner across the House of Commons. I warned that while she might feel great then, it wouldn't be long before things started to go downhill for her. But even I didn’t expect that things would blow up this quickly.
Rayner's departure from Government was inevitable as soon as evidence of her tax impropriety came to light - exposed, brilliantly, by a team of researchers at Conservative HQ and our media.
I've lost count of the times Rayner was first out of the blocks to call for a Conservative minister to fall on their sword immediately. But when her own time came, she desperately tried to cling on. Keir Starmer dithered because he was too weak to act. Even when the evidence was clear in the Ethics Adviser’s report, the Prime Minister was too weak to sack her, letting her resign instead. It's one rule for them, and another rule for the rest of us.
This summer has been an endless round of tax speculation. Each story leaked from the Treasury. Every one of them designed to soften the ground at the budget. But British families know that the only reason their taxes will be going up again is because Rachel Reeves raised them last year, killing growth, and trapping us in her tax doom loop.
We will pay the Reeves’ tax penalty unless the Government listens to our simple message that we as a country have to start living within our means. That means cutting spending.
Labour’s new tax plans include more taxes on British families buying or saving for a home, helping their children to get on the property ladder, or saving for retirement. They even want to create a new annual family homes tax. And all while the Housing Secretary was dodging £40,000 in stamp duty.
Conservatives have said enough is enough. On the very day when the former Deputy Prime Minister admitted underpaying her property taxes, we forced a vote in Parliament. Our position is clear: no new taxes on family homes. What did Labour do? Refuse to rule out hiking them further by voting down our commitment.
After Labour’s catastrophic failure to get a grip on welfare spending, the Chancellor has now set her sights on the family home. One of the tax rises she is considering is adding capital gains tax to homes. This would cost the average British family £14,640, rising to £23,000 in the South East and £33,000 in London. When I visited families in Reigate last Monday to talk about housing, they told me they simply couldn’t afford that.
Fresh from her disastrous Family Farms Tax, Rachel Reeves is even considering scrapping the rule which allows parents to help their children to get on the property ladder or pay a deposit for a flat. It would mean death duties and inheritance tax would be hiked even further. There’s nothing that’s sacred for this Labour Party, which knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
The British public who play by the rules, simply will not stand for a prime minister who repeatedly defended a minister failing to pay their taxes, and who simultaneously attempts to extract ever more out of law-abiding citizens when they do the right thing - working, saving, investing.
The question is not just “will they raise taxes on homes?”. It's “can they?”. My answer is a simple - no.
Labour have driven our economy into the ground. And Reform would double down on their mistakes.
Only the Conservatives believe our country must live within its means. Only the Conservatives have serious plans to bring down spending so we can lower tax, and protect family homes from new taxes.
Nadhim Zahawi’s story about his tax affairs doesn’t add up. After months of denials, the truth emerges.
His position is untenable. Rishi Sunak must dismiss him from his Cabinet.👇🏻