Posted on 06/28/2026 8:23:42 PM PDT by RandFan
Andy Burnham will today set out his Left-wing plan for a decade in power, as he plots a tax raid on middle-class Southerners.
The would-be prime minister will begin to reveal his plan for when Sir Keir Starmer is shoved aside next month.
He is set to be given the keys to No 10 in a Labour 'coronation', in which the public will have no say.
But despite his lack of mandate, the former Greater Manchester mayor will demand ten years in power.
Mr Burnham will put devolution at the heart of his programme, arguing that transferring powers and money to the North from Whitehall will help to generate 'good growth in every postcode'.
This could include tax-raising powers for mayors as well as greater control over business rates and income taxes generated locally.
But the plans, which are being worked on by prospective Chancellor Ed Miliband, are also likely to involve a string of new tax hikes that will fall disproportionately on better-off families in the South.
While the self-styled 'King of the North' is not expected to set out detailed tax plans in a speech in Manchester today, allies have suggested his programme could include a property tax that will punish those with more valuable homes, as well as an increase in capital gains tax and a new 'death tax'.
Shadow Chancellor Sir Mel Stride branded the plans a 'disaster', adding: 'We are about to see what a real Left-wing government looks like.
'It's clear that Burnham will double down on the mistakes Starmer and Reeves have made.
'All the signs are that he has no ideas other than yet more borrowing, taxes and spending.'
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Another tax and spend idiot
They have no idea do they. It’s not like it hasn’t been a proven failure so they double down on it.
Communists always go after the middle class first, the ones having the most impactful and educated free voice to stand up against their evil.
They also shut down free speech,
They just run the same operation in Canada installing Banker Mark Carney after Justin Castro became too ridiculous. Keir Starmer operated as too much of an unfeeling brute, so now he’s out
Same end goals. Same timeline.
Meet the new boss.
Worse than the old boss!.......
Before Burnham’s 10 years are up, London will have changed its name to Al-Aqsastan.
Communists always go after the middle class first
They call them the “Bourgeoisie”.
These people are not clueless. Societal destruction is their goal. They are fully conscious of the evil they perpetrated.
Took until the 5th post until the new boss/old boss line [is all too true] Worse, indeed, it looks like.
Why so long?
Is he going to abolish elections too ?.
Devolution? If his money was where his mouth is he’d go for full devolution. Repeal the Act of Union and set Scotland free. Severed from those left wing lunatics, the more conservative English would have a fighting chance of saving their country. But of course he won’t do that. What they market as devolution is just more tax and spend
"Now my advice to those who die (taxman)
Declare the pennies on your eyes. (taxman)
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman.
And you're working for no one else but me."
-- George Harrison
Nobody got a chance to vote for this. Just installed. And that’s that. No public input, no debate. Lord help them
These people are planning war with Russia. They sincerely don’t care how many will die.
Burnham will be another socialist nail in Britain’s coffin.
The British “constitution” is mysterious, but how does this guy claim a ten year term as PM? On July 4, 2024, the UK foolishly voted in enough Labor MPs to give them the reins. (Somehow a vote share of only 33.7% gave them 411 of 650 seats in Parliament. Hmm...). Well, the electorate FA’ed and FO’ed.
Now, Labor’s support has imploded, and Labor would lose a new election massively. What will it take to trigger new Parliamentary elections? I’m sure Charles III fears putting ultra far right wing racist Hitlerites (i.e., moderates) into power, but he needs to put on his Big Boy crown and dissolve this abomination.
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