Posted on 01/16/2022 7:13:23 PM PST by RandFan
Households are facing at least a £3,000 ($4,000) spending squeeze in 2022 as soaring energy bills send inflation through the roof.
Economists expect inflation to hit a 30-year high in what has been dubbed ‘Awful April’, forcing the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) to re-evaluate its already gloomy forecast less than a month after making it.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is under increasing pressure from many in his own party to step up and ease the swelling crisis.
Experts predict basic household spending will be £2,440 ($3,300) higher than at the start of the pandemic. But on top of this, families are facing the added burden of a £600 ($820) national insurance hike and other tax rises.
Jake Berry, Tory MP and chairman of the backbench Northern Research Group, said the Chancellor needed to do more to help families.
‘The cost of living crisis will have a real impact on families across the country and the Government needs to urgently start exploring ways of reducing its impact,’ he added.
‘They should look at freezing council (property) taxes, removing green taxes from energy bills, and ensuring no one pays the national insurance (payroll tax) increase until they start to pay income tax. These are the sort of bold measures we need to help families with these increasing costs.’
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They're going to reap the whirlwind now.
They deserve to be thrown out and surely will once the people see the bill(s).
This is not ineptness, this is planned destruction, forcing Universal Slavery. The most evil Totalitarianism possible.
Satan himself will be ruling on earth.
If only they had a strong leader like Brandon.
How bout burning some coal?
Good point.
They know exactly what their doing !
Yes, and they believe we are too stupid to see it.
They may brainwash the cities, the rest of US are not fooled.
Many of the plants are gone I believe.
UK gov’t embraced the green agenda when it sounded cool and the thing to do but now the bills are due it doesn’t seem like a good idea.
A harsh lesson for many.
Oh and the tax hikes the propaganda said were also popular and sounded reasonable now it’s costing families an extra grand I doubt they will be happy in April.
Have you checked prices here lately?
and what kills me even in America is you never “own” it the gubmint does
“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat in our drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labors and in our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people.. must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live.. We have not time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers. Our landholders, too...retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury, must...be contented with penury, obscurity and exile.. private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagance.
This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in it’s train wretchedness and oppression.”
Thomas Jefferson on Taxation
What would I do if I’m a Brit? I would get off the island and move to America.
Being “conservative” in the UK is markedly different than in the US. They are the socialists and Labour are the communists.
The road to total chaos is paved with the blood of patriots.
“I would get off the island and move to America.“
That’d gain you a year or two….at best. All of Western Civilization is going down.
Have to make the last stand somewhere.
This isn’t a bug. It is a feature.
Let’s see they now need a new government plan to mitigate the damage a previous government plan has caused that was the result of people voting for politicians that said we need a government plan to address a non-existent problem.
I hope they all freeze in fook’n dark. Stoopid should hurt.
Sad what’s happening over the pond. GB was the best ally this nation ever had.
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