Tories pledge to cut national insurance

David Cameron will put tax cuts at the heart of the Conservative election campaign on Monday, responding to his party’s narrowing opinion poll lead with a multi-billion-pound pledge to cut national insurance.

The Conservative leader will commit to partially reversing a one percentage point rise in national insurance due to take effect in 2011.

Is he really stupid enough to think people will believe that when there's a massive crisis in funding, when every public service is under threat and when everyone knows that things are going to get tougher, that the electorate will really believe there are room for tax cuts and that this is anything but a bribe?

Yes, he really is that stupid.

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3 Responses

mad foetus says:

March 29 2010 at 11:52 am

I didn’t know “things are going to get tougher”. I listened to the budget last week and don’t recall Alistair Darling mentioning that at all. I thought everything was tickety-boo “because of the actions of this government”.

I do recall Gordon Brown saying that:

1) he had saved the world
2) that Labour would increase public spending by 0%
3) that the choice was between Labour investment and Tory cuts.

Truth is, the Tories and Labour are both unimpressive prospects. They will both lie to us to get power. Both will treat us like idiots and both are filled entirely with career politicians who put towing the party line above everything else. Nobody even knows what the Lib Dems stand for they are such a broad church. What a choice!
mad foetus says:

March 29 2010 at 11:53 am

Sorry Richard, ignore this one if you will but I am a bit of a stickler for this sort of thing; I meant “toeing” the line, not “towing”.
Rupert says:

March 29 2010 at 12:09 pm

Richard
Do you not think that he is planning to raise VAT to 20% to replace that revenue ?