Posted on 06/28/2026 9:28:41 AM PDT by RandFan
A 50% top rate of income tax, a mansion tax, a fresh tax blitz on buy-to-let landlords and tougher taxes on inheritances may only be the start as Labour looks set to take a sharp lurch to the left. Many fear what will happen if net zero zealot Ed Miliband is made chancellor. But whoever Burnham appoints, they will face relentless pressure to do the one thing Labour MPs always want: hike spending and find somebody to tax to pay for it. They will pretend only the rich will pay, but as we've seen, in practice working people and pensioners typically end up footing the bill.
Burnham is surrounded by hard-left cronies who want to extend the state into every corner of our economy, crushing businesses, profit and growth in the process. It'll take us straight back to the 1970s, when the unions ran amok and Labour chancellors boasted about taxing the rich "until the pips squeak". We could soon find ourselves looking back fondly on the days of Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Even though she hit us with £70billion of tax rises, borrowed another £300billion and drove national debt towards £3trillion.
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Meet the new boss.
Worse than the old boss.................
Remember the good olde days under (cough, cough) Starmer?
just about the only thing possibly better than the IslamoNazi dictatorship UK’s Ruling Elite has sold the place out to....
would be a communist dictatorship.
But better NOT BY MUCH!
it is so sad that the good British people (and there are still many I believe) couldn’t throw all their traitors and dangerous invaders OUT and regain the relatively free and civilized society they once had
I heard that Burnham is going to make the old Beatles Taxman song the UK’s national anthem.
Let me tell you how it will be
There’s one for you, nineteen for me
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don’t take it all
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman
If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.
Waaay worse.
Black Belt Barrister on Youtube always has interesting commentary on the demise of the U.K.
So this little Marxist prick who got about 25,000 votes will kick the misery up to 11 for the whole country.
The current UK is a vile, horrible place.
Life in Airstrip One, Oceania is looking good at this point.
Brits really should have a revolution over this madness!
Oh, wait, they gave up most of their guns. Never mind.
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