Cameron – just not telling the truth on tax cuts

Posted on February 7 2011

David Cameron has ruled out significant tax cuts while the government is cutting spending to reduce the deficit.

The prime minister said he wanted to offer people relief, but suggested that would only be possible "at the end of this hard road". His comments came in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph ahead of the budget on 23 March.

Cameron is being utterly dishonest.

He's letting the wealthy into the UK at extra quick sopped so they can exploit the domicile rule.

And he's cutting UK corporation tax to 24%, not forgetting the fact that this will deliver real rates for large companies much below that. All of which is helped by the fact that in November his government announced a scheme to encourage large companies to hide their profits in tax havens and pay just 8% tax.

So he's not telling the truth. People will suffer. His friends won't. Funny that.

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2 Responses

Ryan says:

February 8 2011 at 12:12 am

Is there any way of getting on the news and saying that, and explaining it to the general public? Either for you or by telling an MP who can mention it?
Richard Murphy says:

February 8 2011 at 10:50 am

@Ryan

The point is, do the media want to here?

I do about six interviews a day on average

Many fewer reach the press

And it’s not because of an inability to explain things