This is the short we made for The Canary today. I am sure there is a way to embed just the video, but I have not found it, so you will have to click on this and go to Twitter:
Reform keep claiming they'll be cutting your taxes. But as @RichardJMurphy explains for the Canary, what they're actually doing is cutting taxes for the richest people - while shaving barely anything from the poorest people's tax bills. pic.twitter.com/Bc5OQp4ey1
— Canary (@TheCanaryUK) February 26, 2026
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Any chance the Canary could be encouraged to cross post this and future content somewhere else for those of us who refuse to use X? Mastodon would be good.
Maybe they did
I did not see it
Most excellent.
I will not go back to Twitter as I deleted the app due to far too much right-wing led abuse. Sorry
Nice! Super clear and concise. I like that you included fact a list of changes that would actually help people too!
I won’t go to twatter, so can’t see it, but I wholeheartedly agree with the premise.
Very snappy, very easy to follow, very much to the point, very personal!
KUTGW!
I don’t need to open twitter, just watched it from the twitter post you reproduced above.
It’s sad and surprising that a lot of people cannot see that Reform or any other right wing political entity (Reform are a limited company) are an instrument of the ‘Money’ and not people trying to make the lives of citizens better. They are not trying to make our lives worse, but that is what will inevitably happen if they ever get anywhere near running the economy. You would think 14 years of a right wing gov would have taught people to avoid it like the plague, but apparently not. Starmer has not helped at all. He had a chance to show people that socialism is about bringing practical help to citizens from the state with obligations on all citizens to try and make life better for everybody, especially the poor. If politicians are not doing that, there is no purpose for them in political life and they should get out of it.
Although I do think that the personal allowance should be increased with offsetting changes on higher earners so that only lower earners see a benefit, I do get what you are saying in the video.
Our of interest, what do you think about the Scottish income tax system which has 6 bands (I think)? Is that a better system?
Craig
Thrre are better ways to help people on low income