“She’s Pulled This Out Of Her BACKSIDE” | £8,000 Tax INCREASE Under Labour In 2025

[@jenniferbarry5887]

If you lived through the 70s and still voted Labour then there is no hope for you.

[@01matthewc]

I was born in 1984, and I've never voted for Labour, and never will.

[@soosoobear]

I lived through the poverty of the 70's , power cuts . I have never voted Labour

[@msto1987]

If you live through the seventies, at least we know your candle is closer to the end, then it is to the beginning and that gives us hope for the future... Can't wait till the old generation. With their dated, views are no longer in the equation

[@susanmills4843]

⁠@@msto1987I take it you’re going to be a Peter Pan and never grow old. In that case you’ll be taxed to death by 2tierkeir. You plank.

[@Dianej1951]

Nice​@@msto1987

[@01matthewc]

I knew that Labour would be bad in government, but I never imagined they'd be this bad.

[@shadowx2k2007]

I knew! Having seen the various Labour MPs utterances over the years I knew *exactly* how they would be in government 🤬

[@inannamoonchild7643]

Well done, all you labour voters. Proud of yourselves. I wouldn't be.

[@Flowergirl0777]

Exactly. Let's get on with it then. Fix the Problem. Asap🙏🏼🇬🇧✝️✝️

[@sikugord03]

Too many useless idiots out there. My town votes Labour like its lives depend on it. Well I hope they are happy with their choice.

[@AJ-ch6fu]

No, they aren't, many of them feel betrayed, we cannot blame them. The millions who never bothered to get off their backside to vote let this happen aswell.

[@Monz805]

​@AJ-ch6fu labour are and always have been socialists..ignorant labour voters voting because there family always voted liebour...however it's the idiots who didn't vote full stop that are just as responsible for this.

[@sikugord03]

@@AJ-ch6fu yes they are. Want to know why. Nothing, and I Mean Nothing Labour have done since getting into power hasn’t surprised or shocked me. We damn well knew this would happen. Only a bloody fool didn’t realise how bad they would be. The only ones I give ANY Grace to are those who didn’t tolerate the LAST Labour government.

[@edtaylor3072]

I think you're spot on. We're no longer an aspirational country. What's happening is 1970's Soviet Union policy. Our prisons are becoming gulags for those who disagree with state. the state is driving farmers out of business. We have never been more reliant on foreign imported food since WW2. We have never seen so much hardship based on ideology. Social mobility has ground to a halt. The birth rate has never been lower, ever. Lives are being sacrificed on the alter of Net zero. Wealth creating industries: Construction, Mining, fishing and agriculture are being shut down. Manufacturing is being out sourced to other counties. work only pays if you have a country to take the wages home to. It's demonic. It's Orwellian and it's dystopia right now being rubbed in our faces.

[@Count10Ibus]

Spot on Ed 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@5heffPaul]

Trump will turn the US back into an aspirational country. Labour will turn the UK into a socialist wasteland where wealth is taken and aspiration is destroyed. We are F'd as a nation!! 🇬🇧 ☠️

[@Respectforpensioners]

I blame STARMER….SUBVERSIVE DANGEROUS AND EVIL CREATURE. The UKs ignorant and pathetic DICTATOR.

[@Respectforpensioners]

SKIER…HE IS TO BLAME FOR ALL OF THIS NIGHTMARE.

[@Duchess_in_Berkshire]

What is left here to aspire to...I'm starting to.doubt whether I should own my house, perhaps I should just get on benefits 🤔🤔

[@adamsmith5535]

Were becoming a country who thinks that living on benifits is more worth while than working. The country needs fundamental reform and the conservatives an Labour can't offer it

[@YakovShani]

That is Starmer's and Reeve's plan. That is how they control people, create a nation of serfs and paupers, a nation of people dependent on the government.

[@blackislepeastoo]

True - there's a couple in the previous comments who fit that bill.

[@mobilephil244]

We aren't "becoming" - we already have been for 20years.

[@lukebrady65]

They need to raise the minimum wage so that working is more beneficial than relying on benefits, which neither party will do.

[@MrJeffHead]

​@@lukebrady65 and or reduce benefits.

[@marco-58]

Remember the debate when Rishi stated to Starmer that the public would face a £2,000 pa tax increase under Labour. Starmer strenuously denied it.

[@AllenTaylor-lu9bu]

And he was right, it's four times that😥

[@ChrisKershaw-d2k]

And fishing sort of underestimated it

[@sambawomen]

How does one protect one’s self from legal mafia criminals (government)?

[@daphnegeorge7481]

Westminster = a nest of thieves!

[@YakovShani]

Pitchforks. It worked in Paris, it worked in St. Petersburg.

[@msto1987]

Go for it, I'm sure they'll treat the tier 2 violators. With compassion for trying to overthrow the government

[@jasonkirkham7243]

Guyfawks lol

[@brianthesnail3815]

You leave the country. It happened in the 1970s. Anyone with youth and or money and or brains left. It was called the 'brain drain'.

[@SKS_666]

Can we also point out that all those 'middle class' parents that pay for Private Schooling STILL pay their Income Tax for a State School place that their kids don't take up...

[@Drenaid]

thats a very good point

[@pearlford121]

I could never afford my children a private education 😖 but thumbs up to the people that can. Unless of course they expect Ali to put them in his castle to revise 😂😂

[@Royboy50]

Labour are very good at divisive politics by promoting the envy factor ,that way they think they get the masses on their side ,well I think with this one they will not succeed

[@julianparrett9005]

Discusting woman .. Labour are a joke .. make the Tories look like angels!!😢

[@msto1987]

I'm so glad you're mad

[@robertadams1054]

Never done a days work in her life, HORRIBLE woman.

[@josephberrie9550]

hahahahaha discusting....hahahaha is that the same as disgusting...well what school did you not go to

[@elora.2.x]

​@@josephberrie9550hahahaahah probably a better one than you! that taught people about auto correct hahahaha hahaha hahaha

[@msto1987]

@josephberrie9550 you are a sad, small person to come on here and act like the grammar nazi. I'm sure in your head, You thought you were clever, but you just come off. As pathetic ...do better

[@J420n]

They fill all our hotels and then put tax on flights. And put more tax on private tuition because good parents want their children in a better school.

[@Ken-yy9us]

So your only a "good" parent if you want your children to go to a private school?! I think I've heard it all now - what shallow minded people you blue rinsed Tories really are. That means 93% of children don't have "good parents" 😂😂😂 If you can't afford to pay the extra fees that the private schools (who could absorb it themselves) are going to charge, are YOU now a "bad parent?!" Give me strength dear lord, give me strength.

[@celtspeaksgoth7251]

@@Ken-yy9us Those parents pay income tax + council tax. A lot of that goes towards state education, so they are already being taxed twice, now VAT introduces a third level of tax. What is the justification for the VAT ? It's not as though they exploit facilities used by the state sector.

[@Ken-yy9us]

That's their choice, while I have to pay vat on products with no choice. You didn't try to excuse the fact that only "good" parents want that choice either! So how do you class the parents of the 93% who don't, for whatever reason, see their children educated at private schools?

[@flowerpower7389]

​@Ken-yy9us yes most parents if they could afford it would send their children to 'good' schools. Not enough room in state schools as it is. Tax on education can only cause more problems.

[@J420n]

@Ken-yy9us If you kicked a ball at a goal, and I said, "good shot." Would that mean every other shot I'd seen was bad? You also ask our Lord for strength while defending an evil man who is against anything that is Christian. I'm also not a tory, I'd vote Reform.

[@Greengoblin-qk6kq]

Well done labour voters you're making us poorer🤬

[@jamesmarshall4530]

If you send your child to a private school you are paying twice for your childs education. Because you've already payed with your income tax. I had a work colleague who sent his daughter to a private school. He is a joiner and his wife was a classroom assistant. The council run school she would have gone to was awful so they stopped going on expensive holidays to pay for her education and give her a better future. Who doesn't want that for their kids. I know not everyone can do that. But let's not be jealous of the ones who can and are paying twice for it.

[@pearlford121]

Im with u all the way on that.

[@bigchristie]

They should pay tax like all schools.

[@paultwyman7821]

And as the public have always done just sit back and accept it. Thank you all you Labour voters!!!!!!!!

[@memoman1962]

Simple answer. Unite the Kingdom and vote Reform UK. End the corrupt communist Liebour, woke Tory, Lib Dem and SNP uniparty. We need a complete change in UK politics. Reform, Reform. Take our country back. 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@msto1987]

@@memoman1962 you are sad and small. Glad your bothered

[@soothsayer1964]

@@msto1987 So you've got no argument and resort to insults. Glad you bothered.

[@msto1987]

@soothsayer1964 no I have an argument. I think labour are doing a decent job. Could it be better? Sure but it's only been 6m and they were handed a country poor broke and bigoted. (If you always are having "is britain racist?" Stories then where there is smoke there is fire) stand by sir kier and your next pm miss Angela reynard (I'm estimating 18m)

[@t850i]

People will have a shock when their corrupt parties are flushed out by reform, it's why starmer is stopping may elections as he knows they be wiped out

[@Gericho572]

@@soothsayer1964explains how’s it’s insults?, when it what’s happening.

[@TheDigitalAura]

Typical Labour, tax and spend!

[@TonyHills-c2d]

On steroids this time.

[@msto1987]

News flash genius that's what governments do

[@minkymandy6065]

But not spending on their own country or citizens

[@simonh870]

Tax and waste you mean.

[@msto1987]

@simonh870 you're entitled to your opinion what you're not entitled to. Is to not pay your taxes, And you're not entitled to how that money gets spent.That decision is left for people of a higher position than you... know your role

[@rickynewton7125]

💯🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🫣🤔🤨 what's happened to the UK England and the Land of Hope and Glory✝️ on go good Christian Soldiers ✝️ we are all now living in a country full of corruption on a country being run by a government that serve no purpose and also forgets the power of the people

[@Ken-yy9us]

All this Christian soul searching just happened in the last six months then?! What were you doing during last fourteen years then? Praying for divine intervention? The tories are a party of sleaze, corruption and austerity and no wringing of the hands, praying to the almighty and begging forgiveness will change that - remember the food banks and the soup kitchens that exploded in record numbers under the Tories? What was you doing then, praying that someone would come along and get rid of the people having to use them? People like nurses and policemen / women because that government thought that clapping the former was good enough, or refusing to pay the latter enough money while they put their lives on the line protecting you?! Good God, if there is such a entity, he should have been ensuring that they were removed from power long before they were. Oh and just to make my thoughts seem ideal I'll add a few 🙏🙏🙏along with a couple of 😇😇for extra special effect 😡😡

[@fatboy7276]

Britain use to be aspirational now it's lazy and poor

[@paulwood-f3y]

4 million unemployed this time next year, if you're under 30 get out of this dump.

[@dcoughla681]

Absolutely!

[@propertiesspain1869]

My Dad worked two jobs and my Mum worked full time. Proper working class. My local infants / primary was not fit for purpose. The school had a large influx of Kenyan Asians and the children from a travelling fairground site. I was sent to a small private school so I could get a good education

[@icilmaa]

I've just learned that my council is sitting on 19 million pounds for infrastructure and at the same time received a letter stating that the council tax is due to go up next year and that a centre for disabled people is closing down.

[@patriciafagan56]

Which is your council? Just in case it is mine as well

[@pearlford121]

​@@patriciafagan56It dusnt realy matter all councils are the same. One does it they all do it 🤷‍♀️

[@patriciafagan56]

@@pearlford121 Oh, it is so disheartening. I find it hard to believe that things can get any worse

[@entropy5431]

19 million isn't that much these days.

[@meganstewart9062]

In all fairness most of people that voted labour didn't know how corrupt they where going to be and was hoping they could do better for this country. And a lot of people wished they never voted labour.

[@HeliumFreak]

What part of communism made anyone think they wouldn't be corrupt 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Jennifer-x3m]

I would have told them what to expect.thats why lots of oldies did not vote labour

[@ubaldobezoari8652]

Well the polls show that labour would still have a 200 seat majority! Crazy ? There are still lots of people who would vote for or them in spite if the disastrous 6 months. Are they all those 5.5 million public sector voters plus the rail unions? and all those "human rights" lawyers?

[@bigbuddha36]

So this comment then begs the question - just how many of the 20% that did vote ARE happy with these decisions? I can’t even count all the Labour MPs. This is occurring because they are “protected” from elections for another 4.5yrs. That has to change or civil unrest will occur

[@TonyHills-c2d]

I rember the late 60s and 70s. Never voted Labour in my life.

[@barrymayson2492]

There is no point in working hard or saving for pension or saving for your kids, everything you have we will take.

[@Neil-r6o]

And that's what I am experiencing at the moment. Parents who worked all their lives and saved, now almost all being taken from them by care bills. Believe me, I have worked and saved all my life and will burn all my assets before they will be given to the undeserving.

[@stequality]

​@@Neil-r6oyet you voted for Labour?

[@andrewhotston983]

Sadly we need a real crisis to rid Britain of the Uniparty. Labour is delivering a crisis faster than I thought possible.

[@christinecarty636]

REFORM UK FOR THE PEOPLE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN AND OUR VETERANS VETERANS 🙏🙏❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@lesleylamy]

Reform would ruin this country farage and trice have not got a clue ,, what happens if clacton vote farage ou you have no clown to take over.

[@RltchieI]

Everyone equally poor & dependent on the state, that’s socialist utopia. People who wouldn’t dare question the state that provides a home, provides work, provides food & provides healthcare, what would happen if you chose not to conform? If you punitively tax an asset you devalue that asset because no one wants to buy something that has a punitive tax on it. If you devalue assets it then hampers the ability of the state to borrow given they borrow against our savings & assets. When it comes to the land of farmers they likely hope that no private entities will want to buy it so the farm can pay the city, then the state will come in and low ball them with a view to either creating a solar farm, wind farm or build a council estate on it.

[@julianlord2697]

Remember Starmer said no tax rises for working families. He could not define a working person except as one that uses the NHS. Now we see him for the incompetent that he is. A lot of parents with kids in independent schools struggle to pay for it, believing they are doing their best for their child. VAT is another 20% that makes it truly unafforadable. Those same parents were paying for state education through taxes. Now they may drop out and send their kids to state schools. As a state school pupil I know there are good and bad things about state schools. Motivated and talented pupils CAN rise to the top, but it is not as well supported.

[@BigTJK]

Typical Labour politician. Benefits from all the advantages her parents money bought her, then denying that advantage to children now. Apart from hers of course, because she will still have them privately educated.

[@DiamondHands4Ever]

Yeah, an extra 8k a year to be spent on people that are here illegally 👏🏻

[@jimbrown2688]

You all voted them in, despite being warned not to. You broke it, you bought it 🇬🇧

[@ICENI-Britannica]

Really makes one wonder what world these Labour shills actually live in. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@lesleylamy]

A great country with a few stupid idiots in it but the majority like it.

[@dcoughla681]

The University activist world.

[@sumary7663]

I’d be feeling ashamed if I’d voted Labour. The worst party of all time 😡

[@kdog3908]

This is why you don't vote for 'X' for no other reason than they're not 'Y'.

[@iantobanter9546]

No excuses - Wales warned you - council tax, police precepts, water charges all gone through the roof here for 25 years!

[@catwoman7462]

Yet you still vote them in.

[@coolcarbon4709]

Te politics of envy stink, especially when a lot of the clowns on the front bench will have benefited from public school education though to be honest, you’d struggle to tell!!

[@Jennifer-x3m]

Not done owt gor most of them.look at starmer

[@Ken-yy9us]

So having an affair with a pig's head (Cameron) or telling porky pies about covid parties (Johnson) is what private education is all about? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@alexanderevanska4274]

Never voted Labour or tory. In my late 60s. Now I'm a fully paid up reform voter.

[@patriciasenior8487]

If I have to pay £8000 a year more in taxes. I will only have £3000-£4000 to live on

[@julianpetkov8320]

He said it is for the middle class, millionaires.

[@Orcbotbasher]

​@@julianpetkov8320Russian interference is overrated

[@Monz805]

I won't even have that

[@Jennifer-x3m]

Firms will pack in.ones that are left and havnt already gone.lost lot businesses cheaper in other countries .might as well all go on dole.People on low income just working to pay bills.while invaders well looked after

[@Monz805]

@@julianpetkov8320 and who are they? The business owners, the shop owners...we will all suffer

[@voyloa]

Fool anyone who voted Labour and have now got the audacity to complain.

[@stequality]

They are proud of voting Labour dont the public with decent folk

[@DavidGetling]

Those who send their children to private schools save the state the substantial amount of money that it would cost to educate them. The cost to the state from those leaving private education is going to be higher than what VAT brings in. Of course, rather than meet that extra cost, Labour will probably let standards for state students drop still further. It's like killing the goose that laid golden eggs.

[@josephberrie9550]

this is the labour party we are talking about......they do not do joined up thinking or have any intelligence

[@juliehall7476]

Which ordinary person can afford 8k? Private business will falter. Without them the country is finished. We need enterprise & ideas. This government want to suffocate this & feed it into the draining public sector. Get rid now for goodness sake.

[@Bob-f3x6w]

The politics of socialist jealousy .

[@robertjones8644]

All to pay for net zero scam

[@Deeps__]

It still blows my mind that people forget what Labour did in 2008, boom or bust saddled us with £1.5trillion debt due to brown relaxing the regulation on banks so London could take on NY.

[@user-jgn1944]

£8,000 A prime minister can Easily Afford it. Or his UNDERLINGS

[@veryhappychappy12]

And they'd find some way of making the taxpayer cough for that 8k.......like their 4k for heating their second homes.

[@catwoman7462]

Starmer can because of his tax-free million quid pension.

[@redbeard3923]

Fancy voting liebour and expecting to be employed in 6 months time

[@robertjames4908]

As a child in the 1970s I remember the blackouts and having to use a candle to goto the loo...No 'elf'n'safety in those days....

[@Kimllg88]

That was exremely eloquent, Christo

[@PaulHugill]

MPs and the parliamentary system is a massive burdon on the tax payer. They are the worst value for money in the land and they are all breaking the rules of their employment. We need to cap their wages and make sure they stick to the rules. They work for us! Not for DAVOS OR THE HIGHEST BIDDER. I honestly believe its long over due that we taught them a lesson they will never forget

[@chrismeredith8995]

Poĺotics of hate and envy. Grotesque.

[@Baron-Ortega]

Are you stupid?

[@EvaBown]

Thank you Talk TV.

[@pauljenkins685]

well done, all you pensioners and farmers and middle class families who voted Labour in!!! Dont you look pretty stupid now !. vote reform in the local elections, in the Senedd elections, and hope we dont have to wait 4 years to vote reform in the general election. (though i suspect Starmers gang could be kicked out by the).

[@pearlford121]

I wont hold my breath. Labour are a conniving bunch of sausages.they will have a lot more conniving up their sleeves ready and waiting to use in case they think they going to get thrown out.

[@willbee6785]

Labour are takers, not givers. When you look at their personal background, few if any have never run a business. So what chance have Britons got when they run a massive industry, called the U.K.

[@RonnieWeir-u5g]

Middle class parents supporting vat on private schools is like turkeys voting for Xmas. Unlikely. If parents pull their kids out of the private sector can the public sector education system support this? It seems this will cost the government rather than them gaining.

[@chrismeredith8995]

The working and middle class are as described due to their sub standard state education. Its all planned you sheep.

[@catwoman7462]

There aren't enough school places for the children who will have to be pulled out of private school.

[@RonnieWeir-u5g]

@ you know that for a fact?

[@catwoman7462]

@@RonnieWeir-u5g yes

[@chrismeredith8995]

@@RonnieWeir-u5g twat

[@MrUmandMrEr]

*Labour IS Gaslighting….

[@QueenBabylonnia]

Taxing everything…. Even holidays now. Grocery tax coming in January too. Then there is the taxing on savings over £10,000 they are now talking about. So taxed when you earn, taxed already by VAT when spending, taxing to travel on holiday, (grocery tax is re packaging recycling, which must be taking money on top of Councils, who already charge for re-cycling). No incentive for any private pensions, as one will be taxed again. So taxed on earnings, taxed on products, taxed on homes, taxed on utilities, taxed if one tries to save. Only leaving savings of up to enough that one can pay for their own funeral….

[@davidlove1944]

these bstrds will come for the pennies over your eyes so you can't pay the ferryman

[@MrAckers75]

Great job labour voters

[@msto1987]

@@MrAckers75 to think the people that you voted for over the last 14 years were so. Terrible that you voted in labor and you're not happy with that. What caused labor to get voted in? Oh yeah, it was you and your terrible voting record. Your ignorance of politics, your laziness, you're bigoted Ways, your thought process, everything that makes you a conservative or reform Voter is what put the people in charge that ruined this country.The fault is on you.Thanks a lot

[@msto1987]

@@MrAckers75 really you should thank yourself and people like you. Your incompetence and ignorance in voting tory the last 14 years has A) put the country exactly were it is & B) drove many to vote for labour. Take ownership of your own incompetence, wear it as a badge . It's your fualt

[@MrAckers75]

@ nope was a Lib Dem voter now a reform voter!

[@davidfoster2006]

100% right but some naive daft lefty’s will disagree with you.

[@msto1987]

@@MrAckers75 oh so you decided to become a bigot....smart life decisions

[@joehill5253]

Let me tell ya. All those protesters blocking the roads: middle class Palestine Protesters: Middle class Woke brigade: Middles class

[@princessmay9921]

Surely TalkTV and GBNews are going on too much about VAT on private schools? It's not the tax that's problematic but the speed of, and lack of thought about, its introduction. Also the lack of introspection about the quality of state education.

[@inezrussell3814]

Don't think that the majority of the govt are v bright.

[@simondickinson5111]

They don’t know what class is ! They don’t know what working class is and they don’t know what middle class is ? Everybody working or middle work hard to send there kids to private schools as they want to improve there eduction( some special needs ) and give them a chance in future life. The way Labour treat people your better being on the dole ,which a lot of us will be the way they are carrying on

[@webbo9798]

Just goes to show how bad people felt under the tories thinking that labour would be "better"OMG. surely this has to be the end on the UNI- Party politics no more Labour or tory - never again NEVER !

[@martinhambleton5076]

The Labour Party wanted title and benefits thereof only. Non of them have work ethic or I would say capable or motivated of even doing a paper round. Anyone who has ever achieved anything by hard work, determination, and merit is something that these people will never attain by fair means, and they know this at heart I think. With the seven deadly sins as their mantra and hypocrisy as an instruction manual, being totally inadequate and dysfunctional is made easy.

[@mattanderson6672]

Defund the government stop paying tax They can't put us all in prison Labour are evil, Starmer is a traitor Fantastic discussion Excellent analysis Charlie Thank you Sir Well said!! I always love listening to you Cristo Thank You Gentlemen Thank you Lotus Eaters, you are waking up and educating a whole generation Love Talk TV!! Great show!!

[@lindabellamy8278]

This is disgusting and ridiculous

[@meganstewart9062]

I never voted labour in all onestley i have give up on anyone in the government to make the right choice and make a change and do better i am not looking forward to the new year coz i have lost hope in this country.

[@josephberrie9550]

well its easy to see you did not have a private education....if any

[@suenolan9742]

My Grandson aged 9 is dyslexic and his state school assured his parents he would have one to one teaching hours with a teaching assistant. After finding out there was one TA covering 3 classes and he wasn't receiving any additional help and that the school was receiving an allowance for him they had no option but to send him to a private school. They are by no means rich but they could not stand by and allow their son to slip even further behind. Now the 20% VAT is going to be added they are having to make difficult decisions as to whether they can afford to let him stay at the school.

[@JillLawton-zt8me]

What if we’re not middle class. Other than the vat on private schools, most of these things are levied on all of us. Can they tell us how much this will cost us. My triple lock on my old rate state pension is worth nothing compared to the prices going up. And families with children how on earth do they cope.

[@robertjames4908]

Well if Labour are gaslighting, isn't that illegal and constitutes an abusive relationship with public. Arrests need to be made.

[@lewisevans5991]

Reform came second in 98 constituencys vote in the last election I voted Liebour(GUILTY as charged)thought for the better how wrong was i led up the garden path,iv'e seen Reform manisfesto and one thing they promise if anyone arrives in a dingy ilegally they are sent straight back to France so Nigel is going to have my vote next time

[@derekwarren6171]

Didn't labour leave the country in debt before the Tories took over.

[@Pes60]

They have to make difficult decisions,apparently.But it is not difficult for them.

[@belindasmith4207]

We are working for the people illegally coming into our country. Question do the ones with many wives and children get more houses or do they all live together, just wondered how it works ?

[@sheilaroderick9123]

Wish our politicians had the sort of joined up thinking that was demonstrated towards the end of this conversation. The ability to follow through a chain of consequences is one that should be encouraged early in life. Most of what is happening in society is a result of only considering immediate outcomes, not what is then going to happen further down the line. Thank you for that.

[@nicolagregory8723]

You know when a government is doing badly because the taxes go up & up. Labour will carry on regardless of detriment caused to us

[@morrisizing]

The inheritance tax changes are on family businesses, so it is easy to see how this will have negative consequences - cut backs in investments, staff, closures etc. They fail to holistic thinking just purely ideological.

[@susanjackett9268]

How that woman wakes up each am is beyond belief!

[@PiesNSuch]

I think the problem is labour’s definition of a working person is either someone who doesn’t work and has no money, someone who has minimal education and works a low paid job, or someone who works in the public sector and has maximum career salary aspirations which are fixed to not be particularly high. They think you’re a millionaire if you grafted through school, college, uni and landed a 60k per year job etc as opposed to tricia who mucked about through school, got half a gcse and some silly certificate and earns 20k a year as a result. Trust me if you’re on 60k a year, paying thousands a month in tax and NI, and earn less take home than two bus drivers who are married on 25k, you don’t consider yourself not a working class person.

[@TonyHills-c2d]

So, if you want children then best to live on benefits?

[@saz6511]

Yes but don’t ever aspire to work and ask for a minor top up from the welfare system just while you get back on your feet after becoming a parent as they’re stopping that too. So go all in, don’t work and claim the lot. Absolutely ridiculous!

[@karenlepke665]

Rishi Sunak warned they would do this & keir shouted him down as a LIAR ...now we know who the LIAR IS !!

[@neiljones6465]

Don't worry, Kier's going to put them up in a 5 million penthouse in Covent Garden so it doesn't interrupt their education.

[@OhGeeKush]

Let’s all just stop paying everything and watch them cave in

[@sheep83]

I wouldn't mind the tax increases so much if it was spent wisely. But they're frittering it away on people who have been here for 5 minutes.

[@Starskream180]

People won’t have that there be a coup get these divs out

[@judyevans5155]

These parents will probably have more than one child attending private school. What do they do pick a child to go private and any others go to a state school?

[@msto1987]

Decisions decisions, surely they'll send the kid that they love more

[@cafsixtieslover]

My daughter once had a friend who was sent to a state school whilst her brother was privately educated. Her father's comment was "she will only get married". I was horrified that anyone of our age group could say that. My daughter could not send two children to private school so they are both going to state school.

[@lexiehowandplaysroblox9572]

It’s making me ill I worry even though I have a good job I’m struggling to pay bills and feel trapped in a situation I can’t get out of I don’t even have debt other than a mortgage

[@fortlast1843]

Labour always rise taxes if you look back in history so why would they change now.

[@flappospammo]

Well , they're good at one thing ... creating bills , not much else

[@stequality]

That's what you voted for

[@flappospammo]

@@stequality I haven't voted for over 20 years

[@stequality]

@@flappospammo so you must be happy with how things are as you didn't vote against labour

[@flappospammo]

@@stequality As the permanent civil service ( Uk's deep state ) run the show and have for ever voting is a waste of time , it gives the illusion of choice ... democracy is a scam

[@NA55AR_K]

I never voted labour 🤔

[@QueenBabylonnia]

Hate this government

I wonder how many voted for labour and now must be regreting....' Labour is making life difficult for everage people..(((

[@Ken-yy9us]

No I wouldn't accuse parents of not being normal - because that is what normal people do.

[@petermozelewski2645]

The reality is that the more a government raises taxes the more that people seek to mitigate/avoid paying tax. Inflation is more than 2%. Even more if a correct and credible rate of inflation is considered. So to increase net taxation must achive an above inlaftion level of tax increase each year to improve the rnet tax take. Many people may decide that retiring is the answer and cutting out the costs to achieve work. Downscale. Emigrate. The incentive to work is directly related to tax. As you get older it is time that matters most. Many have paid for the home, the car and material goods. Many will not sell homes as the rate of tax is inacceptable. Many will pass on things and set up structures to avoid IHT. It is well known that there comes a point where increasing taxes reduce the overall tax take. When increasing tax people expect to see more for there money. Any policies to achieve net growth and to improve services will take years to deliver In that time inflation and interest rates may go up. Government debt servicing may go up. Whilst inflation continues at more than 2% the bank rate cannot drop. Individual real incomes continue to fall. Consumption falls and the spiral of stagflation and recession continues. Personal growth relies on increased net income and costs remaining below that level. Living standards and servuces reduce. People and government then have to decide to cut there cloth accordingly, cash in assets or borrow more. The UK is heading south!

[@richardhopkins-b9h]

Spot on Cristo.

[@willbee6785]

Many people who can afford to retire but work on, will start to crunch the numbers and not be net tax contributors to the Treasury, will seriously question, why bother working to support migrant freeloaders. It goes against the grain of the British mindset to see taxes going to people who have never contributed a penny into the British system. Why bother working. What’s the point.

[@si8568]

I've taken my 4 children out of independent school and out them in the state schools. Its now costing the state thousands.

[@christinecarty636]

God help anyone who vote Labour this is what you voted for did you not think about your children and grandchildren before you voted labour god may forgive you but ill not

[@johnkenna3366]

Should be more and make sure no NHS & benefits….these are for the working class and not the rich with hidden hoards of cash.

[@RD-650]

Reform reform reform nigel all the way please dont split the vote 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@5heffPaul]

LIEBOUR were the authors of the Winter of Discontent. Now, they will deliver the YEAR OF DISCONTENT as every union decides to strike!! 🙄

[@johnbuxton6009]

It's not an ability to answer a question. it's the the ability to avoid giving an answer. Typically it how most mps deal with uncomfortable questions.

[@keithmartland6463]

When i sleep each night i have a dream that Labour is in power, and taxing everyone, old people are dying of the cold, and we have to walk everywhere as they have banned cars, homeless people are all over the place as they have been removed out of their homes to allow others to move in, when i wake up tomorrow i hope it was only nightmare?

[@ChristineLoveridge-gz2er]

My son didn't get his special education plan until the march/April. When we went into the first lock down of covid. And he was finally diagnosed in his last year of junior school.