Kemi Badenoch accusato di aver fatto una “promessa in stile con truss” con l’ultima politica non finanziata
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kemi-badenoch-accused-of-making-a-liz-truss-style-promise-with-new-policy_uk_684bea32e4b0a06999abda0b
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>The Tory leader said she would axe the windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies, even though it is forecast to raise £10.8 billion over the next five years.
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>But a Labour spokesperson said: “Another day, another unfunded spending commitment from the Conservatives. Kemi Badenoch has not said how she would fund this pledge, which would cost £10.8 billion over the next five years.
>“The Conservatives and Nigel Farage’s party are competing for how many Liz Truss-style promises they can make. Their reckless plans would mean billions more in borrowing, pushing up people’s mortgages, rents and bills.
She can promise all she likes. She’s not even going to be Tory leader in four years time never mind Prime Minister.
Liz Truss really is the greatest gift that Labour could have dreamed for.
Any right wing party proposing tax cuts needs to account for every penny, otherwise the country is reminded of Truss, and the chaotic excesses of late-stage Toryism.
Truss will be a weight around the Conservative Party’s neck for many years to come.
It’s hilarious how “Liz Truss”, as a term not the person, is still so prominent in British politics discourse. Labour is happy to brand both Tories and Reform as “Liz Truss again”, and Tories are also happy to brand Reform as “Liz Truss style unfunded policies”. Imagine screwing up the economy so bad that your name is still used as a derogatory term many years later.
People forget that in the Tory leadership campaign against Truss, Kemi made very similar promises to the party that Truss did. You know, the kind of policy decisions that tanked the economy in record time? In fact, the only person who disagreed with Truss’ approach in that campaign was Rishi Sunak – but Truss got all the blame for it.
The constant battle to keep trying to get Labour on fiscal policy is getting farcical. Before the election it was they can’t balance the books, now they’re in it is “what do you mean you are balancing the books, you can’t do that”.
While it’s right that commentators say that the rules are arbitrary. They made their most serious election commitments around it. People might not like ths results, but thats what they’ve been elected on, and yes its a very Tory way of doing things other than of course the Tories never did it.
And they are spending money, the issue is compared to the Conservatives they’ve been willing to say things cant be afforded and then not do it Vs the Tories who will say we will do it, but only give it just enough money and people to blame someone else.
Frankly the only annoying thing they haven’t done so far is go after the tax system. Because while its actually quite good in the UK it could be better. The fact we’ve had to give winter fuel allowance to pensioners that may have household incomes over 50k a year is outrageous simply because we couldn’t easily do it by household. They could have afforded to give the poorest working people winter fuel if they hadnt had to do that.
I have some questions – How is a tax on profits from oil and gas considered “regressive”, and who is going to vote Tory because of this policy (reversing a tax that they themselves created)?
The windfall tax was a good idea. So is anyone so soft-headed that they’d read this and think that the oil industry deserves tax relief in the light of price increases for consumers in recent years, matched by profits for said companies?
Didn’t her own shadow chancellor say 2 weeks ago they wouldn’t pull a stunt like that again
Maybe start communicating between yourselves folks
Serious question… how is anyone who is not in government ever actually able to fully cost a policy? You’re not privy to all of the information, surely?
Badenough is politically irrelevant so thus criticism is effectively pointless. She has no chance of ever being in a position of putting her budget into effect, which is probably for the best if she wants to avoid being the next Liz Truss.