According to the Treasury this morning:
[George Osborne] set out the five components of his long-term economic plan to build a stronger, more competitive, economy to secure a better future for hard-working families and future generations by:
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‪cutting the deficit
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‪reducing taxes for hardworking people
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‪creating more jobs by backing business
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‪capping immigration and welfare
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‪delivering the best schools and skills
He calls that a plan?
A plan says:
- how we cut the deficit
- how tax cuts are funded, and who hardworking people are (and are not)
- what backing business means and how it delivers new jobs
- what the economic consequences of cutting immigration and social security are
- how schools and skills will be delivered and at what cost
But there is none of that - I read the speech to check. There's just rhetoric.
Make that George's 6th failure of the day.
Now will Labour offer a real plan instead?
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It’s a speech, not a policy document. You wouldn’t expect nuts and bolts detail to be in such a speech and it’s a facile criticism that there is no such detail.
Look at your own 5 point plan.
“so buy to let taxation needs to be transformed. we need to look seriously at land value taxation. Inheritance tax has to be made to work”
That’s not exactly awash with detail is it?
Compared to Osborne – and given that i am not in office – they’re vastly more specific
Chris -sounds like you have been duped by the propaganda -hook, line and sinker!
How about the fact that government expenditure is actually up year on year? Why does this hardly ever get an airing in the media?
Let’s unwrap the terminology:
1. The term ‘hardworking people’ is a gross euphemism that patronises those working long hours an struggling to pay for housing and implicitly turns their anger towards those on benefits. It is a vile, demeaning and offensive expression that takes the rise out of those who have had wealth syphoned of them by banksters.
2. ‘backing Business’ means supporting the wealth extracting City and corporations that reduce everyone else to debt peonage -it will NOT mean supporting SME’s.
3. Capping welfare/immigration means more dehumanizing of welfare claimants who will be increasingly sanctioned and left to rot or driven to despair like the man who drove his car into the JOb Centre in Norwich. ‘Immigration’ means more xenophobia and scapegoating in the hope of stemming the tide of votes going to UKIP.
Osborne is a vacuus moron and incapable of any form of critical thought.
He promises to reduce taxes on the hardworking, but says nothing about raising their income/living standards.
Lower taxes means higher net income equals increased living standards.
Surely that’s not rocket science.
Not if cuts required more to be spent privately to replace the previously collectively provided goods and services
You are, as ever, simply wrong
Reducing taxes means higher income, means lower working benefits! (tax credits/housing and council tax benefits)
Meanwhile, Mrs next-door-to-my son has just returned from a jolly to India where she has been instructing her Indian job-replacements how to do her job!
The country produces less-and-less of what most people buy every year, production is moving offshore more and more, to places where health and safety is not a dirty phrase, it is an unknown phrase. Moving to places that do not pay a wage, they pay pocket money. Moving to places where crowded accommodation means more than one family to a room. Osbourn intends to mirror those jobs and conditions to bring jobs back. Got news for you George, they´re not coming back.
Evidence does not support all your claims
Jobs are coming back
Evidence?
He´s got a lot of plans.
By the next election he will have given the ¨private sector¨ nearly £10 billion in land assets via schools transferring to academies.
Not forgetting the sale of many schools playing fields…
He has loads of plans.
Bigger bank balance.
Secure employment after tory-time is over.
Loads of enriched friends via giving away state assets.
The vast increase in welfare benefits payments to the financial corporations.
Yep, loads of plans.
“Political analyst Simon Williams explained, “When presented with a choice between stopping rich people avoiding tax, or spending less on things like education, hospitals and poor people, then it’s really no choice whatsoever — for a Tory.”
http://newsthump.com/2014/01/06/nation-gently-points-george-osborne-in-direction-of-35bn-tax-avoidance-hole/
It’s probably best to remember that this shower got in despite their refusal to say what they would cut and by how much. I suspect the Labour party are attempting to do much the same now, though with little success.
I suspect they ¨got in¨ by playing on the ¨would you run a household budget like this shower¨.
People failed to recognise that household budgets resemble the countries finance in many ways, especially having to pay 4% interest to people who never actually lent you any money anyway!