Following my post on the further £12bn welfare cuts promised by Osborne if the Tories win, I received an email from one of those persons who read it, Sue Tuke, with some devastating new revelations about how the proposed cuts to Universal Credit when self-employed claimants miss their monthly targets will likely be part of […]
Posts Tagged ‘George Osborne’
Another hit for low-paid workers revealed – one of Osborne’s £12bn hidden benefit cuts
Apr 2nd, 2015 by Michael Meacher.
Osborne’s boasts were lies – his was not a budget for a prosperous Britain
Mar 25th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.The truth finally came out. Osborne claimed that the deficit was being cut this year when in fact that is only due to the exceptional delaying of tax payments till the end of the fiscal year by the super-rich in order to take advantage of the reduction in the top income tax rate to 45%. […]
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If you are going to tell porkies, tell big ones
Mar 19th, 2015 by Dave Watson.If you are going to tell porkies, tell big ones. That seemed to be the Chancellor’s strategy in yesterday’s budget. It was as if the past five years didn’t happen. The worst fall in real earnings in recorded history a total fall of 7.9% and even this is on the basis of the lower CPI […]
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Osborne’s claim of a let-up in austerity in next 5 years is a lie
Mar 19th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.George Osborne didn’t deliver a budget yesterday. He delivered a party political broadcast on behalf of the Tory party in which analysis of the macroeconomic state of the economy, which is the real purpose of budget statements, was almost totally absent. Osborne’s speech yesterday had two aims. One was to give the impression that the […]
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George Osborne’s core vote budget
Mar 19th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.I don’t know where this idea originates from but apparently, at least in Conservative Party circles, George Osborne is considered something of a political genius. Then again, among his people, Michael Gove is thought of as an “intellectual”. So we’re talking a very low bar here. Yet wanting to see the best in everyone, I’ve patiently […]
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Osborne’s budget giveaway for pensioners: never have so many lambs been so ripe for fleecing
Mar 18th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.We are now being presented with yet another almost unbelievable example of how ruthless the Tories are prepared to be in their own interest at the expense of the gullible and vulnerable. Already last year Osborne ruled that 320,000 savers a year with ‘defined contribution’ pensions would no longer have to buy an annuity – […]
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Osborne’s budget message: government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich
Mar 17th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.Osborne’s shamelessness knows no bounds. Having generated the most polarised society in class terms since the Edwardian era, he has the gall now to be focusing Tory electoral appeal on a brazen tax giveaway confined to the extremely rich. It’s an outrage that with only 50 days to the election he’s now giving notice that, […]
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Tories aren’t against tax dodging, they believe in it – just don’t get caught
Feb 17th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.Osborne’s studied silence over this last week speaks volumes. If the issue were anything else but tax evasion and avoidance, he would be seeking to find an angle to turn it against Labour for all he’s worth. But on tax avoidance he’s skewered. It was on his watch that no action was taken when news […]
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How do the parties think they’ll reduce today’s deficit of £100bn to zero by 2020?
Feb 1st, 2015 by Michael Meacher.Osborne continues trying to taunt Labour about eliminating the deficit altogether by 2020. But he’s never set out any strategy by which he might get within even spitting distance of it. Economic growth isn’t going to do it. Under his current policies Britain now invests only 14% of its GDP, one of the lowest rates […]
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Why doesn’t Labour take on the Tories over the economy?
Jan 29th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.It is bizarre that Osborne continues to preen himself that the economy is such a strong card for the Tories at the election when in fact every aspect of the UK’s economic performance is looking bad and getting worse. Yesterday it was reported that the growth rate in the final quarter of 2014 was down […]
