Posted on 11/26/2025 2:19:12 AM PST by RandFan
Rachel Reeves has acknowledged that voters are "angry at the unfairness in our economy" and "frustrated at the pace of change", but has insisted she will make "fair" choices and deliver "the biggest drive for growth in a generation". She will set out the budget at 12.30pm.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
And then there are the nine councils that had their elections “postponed” recently...
How Deep States everywhere define rich: Anyone drawing a private sector paycheck.
And that's just the income tax hike.
Headlines from the UK’s Telegraph...
Reeves raises taxes by £70bn across two Budgets
Chancellor has put up taxes by £30bn in her second Budget, a year after a £40bn raid
Sickness and disability benefit spending to soar by £109bn
Welfare spending surges in a blow to Chancellor’s hopes of boosting Britain’s credibility with bond markets
Reeves to raise £8.3bn by freezing income tax thresholds
So just as New Yorkers are moving to Florida to avoid higher taxes upper class...and middle class...Brits will be moving to Spain or Ireland.
I kind of laugh when I think oft he Hollywood fools who boasted about how they fled to the UK for their freedom. 😕
It’s why I prefer our 2-party system, flaws and all.
Having only 34% but being the ‘majority party’, they get to run the government. Similarly, a party may have the ‘majority’ but becomes 2nd place to other parties that form a ‘coalition’ government.
So even if a right-wing party ‘wins’, the left can create a coalition with other parties and still take control. I believe this is what happened in France recently.
They need more money to fund the invaders.
And cheaper to get rid of jury trials for those that violate speech code complaining about them, along with mandating a digital-ID to control buying/selling/travel/health-care if you don’t comply.
It’s about to get very ugly.
No, they won’t.
Take a look at taxation in both countries.
It works out to be just as bad for people who pay income tax.
Western Europe doesn’t have any healthy economies.
I’ll bet every country in Western Europe is cooking its books.
And when that becomes clear...
Let’s see if they put their money where their mouths are....
Or if they coming fleeing back to the US.
I’ll make you a bet...
The money Germany says is going for defense spending...
It ain’t really going for defense spending.
Betcha.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered her Budget after the details were released early by mistake
Income tax thresholds will be frozen until April 2031 - a year longer than expected - meaning more people will pay higher rates
There will also be new taxes on homes worth more than £2m and £5m; a mileage charge for electric vehicles; tax on pension contributions above £2,000; and changes to Isa (IRA) rules
Meanwhile, the two-child cap on means-tested benefits will be lifted
Conservative leader Badenoch calls the Budget a “total humiliation” and says Reeves is hiking taxes to pay for welfare
More:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy8vz032qgpt
More taxpayer money to waste on the Climate Scam
Huge cheers as Rachel Reeves abolishes DWP two-child benefit limit
Their Deep State to people who work for a living...
Work harder. Millions on welfare depend on you.
... Coercion is a serious business: it imposes an awesome responsibility on the authorities to ensure that the money that is raised through it is spent wisely and effectively on purposes that its citizens approve of. This is plainly not the case in modern Britain, and raises the question of whether there could be put in place some constitutional restraints upon it. Don’t hold your breath.
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