'Slippery Starmer's' WAR on savers: 'those with substantial savings aren't working people!'

Deputy Editor of Spiked Online, Fraser Myles, discusses the comments made by Labour Leader, Sir Keir Starmer, regarding 'working class' savings.
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[@Starmerispureevil]

Worked 40+ years, 15 of which were overseas. Worked long, worked hard. I saved a lot. Now Labour come for the fruits of my labour. They can FRO

[@leemacgregor1]

It's sickening I hate all labour voters. I've worked my ass off to get what I've got and to save for private retirement pension in savings investments.

[@lukeframpton3671]

Best thing you can do is ship out abroad mate I'm off to Portugal 🇵🇹

[@cumbriatreesurgeons8943]

It's not widely reported, but I believe there is a mass exodus of Millionaires from the Capital - on an unprecedented scale......

[@victoriabrooks7009]

Cash is king can't tax what they don't hold

[@bobjames6622]

@@victoriabrooks7009 By the end of the first term of labour, cash will have been replaced by CBDCs

[@nevillespence6101]

Why would anyone vote for Labour, the party of immigrants, not interested in the working class. Vote REFORM save our country

[@Triveni-v8q]

Totally agreed.

[@petiadavis5122]

Agree

[@isaachd1656]

I don’t agree

[@malcolmjohn2875]

We get the party we deserve....so if you vote Reform you will get Labour.

[@acecolin52]

@@malcolmjohn2875Labour have won anyway. A vote for Reform is a vote for what we expect to have so if enough people vote for them it will change things for the next election after this one. Vote Reform it is not a wasted vote it is an essential vote.

[@MJ-YT-USR]

40% tax relief on pensions will go, and they'll be a cap on how much you can have in ISA's tax free - amongst other things. It won't be a tax on the rich, it will be a tax on the sensible.

[@gxbxhonxxuxxtub.]

Personally I think the forty percent tax threshold on pensions should have been scrapped years ago, there should only be one rate for everyone.

[@IeuanBevan.]

Next worry is inhertance tax relief for agriculture. They could remove that for farmers forcing all farms to sell up on Britain. Even the bigger farmers. And who going to be able to afford these farms? Wealthy foreners who won't even farm just turn farms into houses etc.

[@averdadeeumaso4003]

That's the "plan", make everybody become "misērable", wāke up and prēpare before its toō late

[@innitandting]

All whilst they grow richer with their snouts in the trough the despicable turds

[@markblance8492]

It will be a tax on success

[@ianb9842]

Who on earth is going to vote for labour when he’s clearly coming for your saving and taxing pensions

[@sallyrobbertse5418]

Why else does he need the voting age to drop to 16....

[@keithjackman8886]

I remember well when Gordon Brown raided the Pensions Industry and almost destroyed it and from which it has never recovered.

[@janicelee9709]

​@@keithjackman8886Absolutely right. People have short memories

[@BenDoverNimmo]

The workplace was always a ponzi scheme and part of "Operation Lockstep" to confiscate wealth...

[@BenDoverNimmo]

@@ant270 To get the woke mobsters giving him more votes to push the woke agenda...

[@MandyAustin-nl4cn]

Labour and Starmer are dispixlcable. This is what happens, you are penalised for having worked hard and saved money.

[@robertjames4908]

Socialists don't like people having money, always been the same. Personally, tax should be banned and with the extra income you buy your own health insurance etc at least you can chose which provider and not get the states shoddy service.

[@markblance8492]

Socialism is despicable

[@tonyhaynes9080]

All our lives we are schooled into saving our money. Buy a house. Get a car. Save for holidays. Save for retirement. Then you get penalised for having savings if you need to apply for benefits. The health service will take it when they insist on you moving into an old age home. The government will take your savings in tax or penalise you because of your foresight.

[@googlesucks925]

​@johnwealthy6044 there's a lot of people voting Labour, just to stick a finger up to conservatives. The msm are doing a good job making people believe there are only two parties.

[@sallyrobbertse5418]

​@johnwealthy6044there are enough but apathy is rife.

[@Vegan_Lion21]

How can they take your savings?

[@sfactory8253]

@@Vegan_Lion21 Taxing isas. Taxing interest. Taxing dividends.

[@Vegan_Lion21]

@@sfactory8253 Why not just save money in your bank account?

[@denise4487]

So if you have savings you are not working a person and that gives him the right to tax money thats already been taxed and taxed again WTF

[@pt4005]

Scary isn’t it

[@Th3_Gael]

​@johnwealthy6044if only someone would tax the envious. I'm sick of people moaning because someone's better off, usually through serious graft. Then expecting their big daddy to go raid the pockets of grafters so we can all be the same

[@IeuanBevan.]

Don't forget when you die it gets taxed yet again😂

[@Alan-75]

Don't forget he'll probably come after you for more inheritance tax aswell. Another tax on something you've already been taxed on. Total F in con.

[@UKGeezer]

@@IeuanBevan. Coffin tax 😂

[@brianthirling9260]

Labour have always been the same when in power ,you are better off not working than working under a labour gov.

[@songsmith31a]

Labour is the party for the hands-out work-shy generation.

[@markfraser4254]

The answer is simple don’t vote Labour.

[@lindark28]

Exactly

[@googlesucks925]

Problem is, they'll win. In an attempt to stick it to the Conservatives idiots will vote for Labour.

[@jasoncooper9391]

Simple don't vote for Right wing bile

[@googlesucks925]

@@jasoncooper9391 best to stay out of things you don't know about.

[@jasoncooper9391]

@@googlesucks925 don't tell me what to do Bellend

[@susanparkauntiesuze5447]

Same old Labour: benefit the scrounges at everyone else’s expense.

[@songsmith31a]

There are votes to be had from the grateful idle!! The lust for power in politics knows no shame.

[@NettiGaming]

Reform for me

[@grannythebuilder395]

Someone else assisting Labour. Well done.

[@keithlowton308]

@@grannythebuilder395 GROW UP LITTLE MAN.

[@grannythebuilder395]

@@keithlowton308 Keith, Keith no need to shout. Learn to read boy, look again at my user name and feel embarrassed about your last text.

[@phildiamond8549]

After being encouraged to open a private pension plan in the 70s and saving for years, Gordon Brown raided mine (and many others), savings, and stealing 16 billion. They will never change.

[@stuartturbutt-ff1jt]

Corruption ain't the word...plain theft by both labour and tories

[@The_Phoenix_Saga]

And yet people will vote anyway. This is something that would happen regardless of who gets in.

[@johnmartin7158]

@@The_Phoenix_Saga. Fair comment. At least you’re saying they would all do it.

[@The_Phoenix_Saga]

@@johnmartin7158 Of course they would - the parties exist simply to give the impression of difference; even the bickering is done for show and yet they all answer to one and the same.

[@paulknowles4251]

Only people look after is the bone idle u can't b bothered t work migrants best thing t do is pack up work claim benefits sit on your arse do nothing

[@Gina-vu4mu]

People haven't voted yet but People can change there minds now l hope People take this on Broad don't trust Labour

[@Mogsy.57]

Vote Reform uk....

[@grannythebuilder395]

Help Labour, well done

[@redbeard3923]

​@@grannythebuilder395What has the tories done to a 80 seat majority blown it and let liebour in

[@grannythebuilder395]

@@redbeard3923 They put their trust in a chaotic fraudster.

[@grannythebuilder395]

@@Hexley_Vexley There are not enough people stupid enough to believe the lies of Reform so it's all good for Labour.

[@JohnJohn-fi3hp]

Reform is the future.

[@tonyb9185]

Reform taking tax limit from 12k to 20k before you pay tax 😊

[@cmmgray]

Give one hand, take another

[@MrMatador29]

it will do nicely, my tax rebate will go up around to 6k a year

[@tonyb9185]

@@cmmgray that's called being married 😆 🤣 😂

[@SteveHitchcock-g3t]

and take 3 million nhs workers out tax for 3 years vote reform and save NHS staff

[@simonbeasley989]

That is a great policy. Should be kept in line with the minimum wage so if you work the average week (38 hours?) you only pay income tax if you get more than the minimum wage.

[@janicelee9709]

I knew a Labour govt would be a disaster for the country but the more I hear of Labour's plans 'disaster' becomes an understatement. Vote Reform 🇬🇧

[@Broomtwo]

"its a bit much to call Starmer a socialist" …. he literally calls himself a socialist.

[@bertiescunsbutch9323]

He's a Pabloist.

[@peterrobierto7435]

He is a Globalist Trotskyist.

[@zoltan-zq3xe]

Hitler was a socialist also.

[@Roatanlova68fmp71lliiiak]

He's a fascist

[@noelward8047]

@@zoltan-zq3xe Oh dear.

[@JohnSmith-vh4cb]

Starmer is a hippocrate, he is a multimillionaire, he knows nothing about working class

[@gregmeade5044]

Your right! We need government led by working class hero’s like Sunak and Farage 😂

[@peterstevenson5418]

Net worth 17 million

[@iaing9028]

Look at his pension arrangements, he is exempted from many rules that the population have to adhere to.

[@kevinbrashaw]

@@JohnSmith-vh4cb just like the Tories and Reform then

[@michaelsnelling3338]

He also has a pension of iro £340.000 on which it is alleged he pays no tax due to a special act of parliament.

[@rogernorman2621]

DONOT vote Labour!

[@jasoncooper9391]

Don't vote reform

[@mrmalavey1098]

​@@jasoncooper9391 am I right in assuming you don't have any savings/ a car/ you live off benefits and you hate your grandparents/parents/ kids and the country? As that's the only reasons I can think of why you'd not vote for them🤔

[@jasoncooper9391]

@@mrmalavey1098 you are certainly wrong my old China I work I'm up 5.am every morning and finish around 6.pm

[@lordprotector3367]

@@mrmalavey1098 I suspect you've been taken in by Sunak's lies and the Tory tabloid conspiracy to keep the richest rich and the poor poor.

[@Roundhead75]

People are already waking up to labour and they are not even in yet , I give them 6 months to a year and will will have another general election.

[@davehunter9342]

With around 200 majority ? More likely Starmer will be replaced by unions and replaced with Ginger.

[@YT-tt9rb]

More like replaced by Khan. Then we all and truly screwed

[@5578pedro]

Starmer says nothing concrete, he is a slippery eel. He seems to say vote for me and then I’ll tell you what I’m going to do.

[@JACB006]

No I will not be voting for Starmer. Vote Reform UK

[@Jackb0203]

A bit like the Democrats in America done in the last election.

[@nobbyclarke9298]

Starmergeddon is hell for savers…..😢

[@ronniedobson]

Why would you want to vote for this party..unless your on benefits

[@craiglee3653]

A vote for Labour is a vote for more of the same TURBO charges. Starmer the authoritarian ruler in waiting.

[@stevehayward1854]

I am retired and my savings are my lifeline. I wont be voting Labour Reform has my vote

[@zog97xy]

And you believe this rubbish!

[@stevehayward1854]

@@zog97xy I have lived trough a few Labour Governments and I dont need anyone to tell me what they where like. Labour are totally rubbish at running anything as you will find out in the next few years. Labour has destroyed the NHS, the have destroyed our economy numerous times, last time even Banks needed tax payers cash. It just pains me that there are idiots that still fall for their rubbish that they come out with every time and the poor idiots have no idea of the poor track record of Labour as if current Labour cities and towns + Wales has shown us.

[@rogerro54]

@@zog97xy i don't believe your crap at trying to put me off voting Reform

[@ubaldobezoari8652]

Steve, I don't like the Tories either. But if you vote reform you're just splitting the anti-labour vote without getting many seats. This guarantees Labour win.

[@zog97xy]

@@rogerro54 Ha ha ha ha Go ahead you wont get a single seat! the country knows about farage now he is toast.

[@michaelhodges1749]

Don't save spend saving then live off the country That's Labour. I will vote Reform.

[@oldshiny3012]

you'll get what you Vote FOR

[@unknown-rp9ug]

True

[@jt8083]

Right, reform it is for my vote. I'm a worker...I did all the right things...education..worked my way up...i save more than I spend...people like me are already hammered on tax for being successful....I'll just take it out of the banks and investments and put it elsewhere.. then I'll ask my director for a self employed contract and stop paying top band tax too. How about that....how many people who earn good money with brains do you think have the ability to do exactly the same too....

[@jz295491]

..put it elsewhere, ....where?

[@Slumbert]

You know you can't trust globopopulists. Vote Reform

[@vincentblack7467]

Vote Reform..

[@thomasmorin749]

A raft of stealth taxes down the line.

[@kw8757]

Stealth to start with, then just blatant tax and squander a bit further down the line.

[@29jug11]

REFORM - REFORM !!!!

[@dianeirvine7624]

Avoid civil unrest - don’t vote for labour

[@yasdnilknarf1885]

Labour have always been more than willing to spend other peoples money.

[@iantobanter9546]

Rinsing us blind in Wales with massive council tax rises and the highest water charges. Council tax revaluation s coming your way too, England.

[@christinepalmer935]

council tax has already gone up LibDem council

[@lsd358]

🙄😬

[@susancrome6200]

They assuming Labour will win before anyone has voted! As if there is no other possible outcome. The polls said Labour would win the 2019 election...But so many are saying they will vote Reform. Us included.

[@AntoinetteHewer-xe3oh]

REFORM all the wayb

[@FFSgetRidofLabourScumbags]

Working family have no choice but to "save" to afford anything. So Slippery Starmer is also eyeing my savings too...

[@darrellwebb351]

Weasel Starmer,vote Reform

[@gloriaphillips9724]

Starmer out of touch ,,people who have worked all their lives have been taxed all their lives ,now he’s after their savings( GET LOST ) matey

[@bernardlandymore7372]

If you have a house , a garden , a car, a pension or savings them are coming for you.

[@JackSmith-hx8zh]

Starmer isn't a socialist? He was (and probably still is) a revolutionary Troskyite. You'll see!

[@tonychettleburgh8953]

Marxist more like

[@carentipler419]

People are preoccupied with red and blue while not realising that they are fighting for their very existance

[@craigd6261]

I wonder how much he has in savings? He's certainly not a worker.

[@Goldenlion148]

He doesn't need savings. He will have a gold plated guaranteed inflation proofed public sector pension worth 10 times more than what most people can afford in the private sector. Being an MP it will be in six figures without him having any savings at all. He is coming after everyone in the private sector to pay for the snouts in the trough public sector workers.

[@kennethmaley2443]

He doesn't pay tax on his DPP pension it's tax free and it's a lot more than the state pension

[@craigd6261]

@@kennethmaley2443 And now it seems he doesn't want anyone to have savings, so presumably the state pension will go up to replace any money we may have put aside for the future!!

[@robertpavey5615]

Unlike his dad who is a toolmaker..

[@peterstevenson5418]

Net worth 17 million

[@petersullivan3012]

I've grafted for every single penny I have, and paid tax on it. Don't vote Labour, buy gold and lock it away somewhere away from prying eyes, abroad if necessary, whoever governs this country doesn't deserve to take our savings and spend it on people who haven't paismd a penny. I earned it, I'm keeping it.

[@MarjorieStoker-oj8fh]

He is part of the elitism WEF Davos reset team

[@simonquigley9054]

Urgh focus groups staffed by ideologically captured kids straight out of university who have never worked a day in their lives.

[@dean7442]

I recall Gordon Brown back-dating taxes on plane flights. So the holiday I had bought months ago I was contacted to pay more for as Labour imposed taxes and back-dated it. Never trust Labour

[@philipmoroz3470]

His pal Blair will be coaching him one slime ball teaching a new slime ball do not trust. The workers will be hammered one way or the other you will pay for it

[@Goldenlion148]

Saved for years and years into my pension in a fairly low paid job and had a tidy sum to give me a few comforts in retirement. Along comes Gordon Brown, taxes the pension schemes out of sight. When I took my pension 5 years later it was worth half of what it was and my pension income was halved. Only just keeping up with the costs of living now, no room for comforts. Not so for public sector workers whose gold plated pension is guaranteed, inflation proofed and payment into their schemes are 10 times that put into private pensions. Those are the wealthy people Starmer should be chasing after as they are so rich. They do not need savings because they have such overblown generous pensions. Those on private pensions do need savings because you cannot survive on one of the poorest state pensions in Europe alone.

[@alandraper7901]

What is Starmer playing at. Taxing people's savings is obscene. This is supposed to be the party that denied the tax rise accusations.

[@unusedsub3003]

Tax the rich, you dense cap doffer. Scrap the Windsors and we’d have loads more cash.

[@glenhoff1443]

Just do not vote Labour.

[@philipbray168]

Starmer keeps reminding us that his father was a toolmaker pity his biggest tool was his son

[@angelh5762]

🤣🤣

[@bobbrown3141]

Starter even lied about that. His father apparently owned the factory.

[@Zoro007]

The only " Savings" I have is money put aside for future bills, car tax, petrol,car insurance, house insurance, MOT & servicing for car costs, boiler maintenance, gas & electric & water bills, council tax, brown bin payments, TV licence, so not for luxuries,just for survival...... Starmer hasn't got a clue, he's being fed his lines via, Blair, Brown, Mandelson & Khan..

[@pmarmify]

taxing our savings will mean we take money out in cash & put in the safe!

[@alexdewar6584]

You will own nothing and be happy.

[@redbeard8913]

What if you already own nothing and aren't happy....

[@parrot340]

He does have plans to raise council tax. Working ppl pay it. He is just a big fat lier.

[@SteveHitchcock-g3t]

property equity tax ref darren jones slipped up in chris hope interview G B news have not made much head way on that one yet

[@kynastonp]

Welsh labour have already started work on rebanding all houses in wales to increase council tax by up to 50% but paused it as soon as the election was announced but its coming in 2025

[@steveg4334]

Vote Labour, and "you will own nothing, and be happy". Sunak, and the others are just as hostile. The only difference is they use smiles, and not guns.

[@markgilbert1033]

I work hard very hard for my family and if I save then that is my families money not the governments , hard working people should be praised, it's the only way to succeed in life

[@landmbuilders]

Vote Reform 🗳

[@grannythebuilder395]

Another on helping Labour, good for you.

[@landmbuilders]

@@grannythebuilder395 I think you'll find that a vote for the Tories will help Labour more than a vote for Reform.

[@grannythebuilder395]

@@landmbuilders I don't follow your logic. Reform might get 1 MP. So any vote for them helps Labour beat the Tories. Please, please vote for Reform and keep Starmer in power for 20 years

[@nightbeast8105]

What Comrade Starmer actually means is. Your working for yourself rather then solely for the state and must therefore be dealt a heavy dose of Equity.

[@leegould5306]

The only way to get reform for the U.K. is to VOTE REFORM U.K.

[@keithlowton308]

VOTE REFORM.

[@DEVIL13106]

Always remember he went to davos meetings years ago he’s been educated in the ways of the corporation, all part of the circus

[@lezlee8704]

Any one thinking about voting for labour should find out where their local food bank is because I think they are going to use it.

[@Jeff-ut5sx]

REFORM REFORM STOP THE BOATS !!!!!!

[@tonypriest3567]

Lets make this CLEAR. We dont want you mr stamer

[@ep1929]

I'm dreading a labour government.

[@ep1929]

6 weeks on my feelings were fully justified!!!

[@michaelc318]

Who the hell would vote for labour when he is going to tax us people as far as he can . What a thing to say to get people votes. Im sure that the once labour voters will not be voting labour and turned to reform. If they vote labour then they need their heads looking at.

[@OldhamSteve52]

Labour love spending other peoples money.

[@Donk-s5n]

I don't understand why useless Labour is still existed after the fall of USSR.

[@danielrawlings8355]

UK wasted £450bn on Covid 19.

[@davidwhitton5519]

It's 750 billion if you add in all the liabilities

[@martynsmith8120]

We didn't need to lock down the country at all. All the government had to do was to force the selfish pensioners to stay at home. Only the government thought they were too selfish to obey such a simple instruction.

[@SomeOne-p6f]

Who in their right mind would vote Labour?

[@fb-qs9fo]

Tax is designed to keep you from ever getting ahead and comfortable.

[@Gazooka]

If Labour gets in without true opposition this country is doomed for normal people, vote #ReformUK

[@v3numgough465]

'Like they have almost won by default'.... They will HAVE won by default

[@turbolevo8703]

I’m already bored with listening to Starmer’s dulcet adenoidal voice and he hasn’t even taken office yet!

[@craiglee3653]

More taxes for more foreign wars whilst the education and health systems are rotten to the core, GO LABOUR.

[@christophermccall7202]

A Communist is a Communist

[@ukman9797]

I'm a worker. Worked all my life. Saved my money, paid into my private pension, now he thinks I'm rich. My savings and bank balance may look like I have more than others, but I worked hard. Never claimed benefits, always had to pay full price for dental work etc. I've not had nothing from the state, pay taxes on my pensions every month. But it's not excessive amounts, yet they think I'm better off so want to raid my savings so I'll end up on benefits. Madness!

[@cototp]

He cant define the working class when asked,he was lost for words the tool.

[@IanSmith465]

Time to see if we can hitch a ride on one of these small boats back to France

[@patriciabutler235]

How dare he, we have savings, I worked all my life in the NHS and my better half on a farm, more often than not 7 days a week. We have savings and a reasonable pension because we didn't squander our earnings, and he has the gall to suggest we weren't working class . Ter

[@calvintaylor4033]

What you've heard so far do you think they'll be after a slice of your savings, taxing more on pensions ?

[@user-ho8ds7my7l]

Labour are going to take your hard earned cash .so vote if you like .

[@CAROLECOOK-v3m]

We were told to save for your old age so you don’t rely on the state. At over a £,1000 a week for care homes your savings won’t go far. You haven’t thought this through mr Starmer.

[@martynsmith8120]

If Starmer brings in a tax on savings he should be permanentantly deported to North Korea.

[@normawakefield8610]

What about Starmers savings, probably untouchable in off shore accounts , he's the most despicable person in Westminster.

[@veronicathornton4118]

Why should we pay tax on savings we worked paid tax on wages put a bit away then get taxed again ROBBERS

[@Ruth-ff7jw]

How dare you say working people don't have savings. We have worked very hard for our money, because we were working people and didn't waste it. How dare you say you will take people's savings, when they have worked so hard..

[@mikehankey1612]

My savings were taxed before I saved it.

[@stumac869]

Labour are clearly going to tax those with savings, assets (your home) and wealthy pensioners.

[@danielrawlings8355]

Each time you create a credit, you simultaneously create a debt, cancelling each other out. In absolute terms, money doesn't exist.

[@victoriabrooks7009]

Take any savings out now, hold it in cash, get a safe ,do what u can, but dont get tax raped of slippery starmer 😂

[@songsmith31a]

I have never thought that Labour could be trusted on other people's money when in power. Socialism is such a very flexible thing, isn't it?

[@Raven44453]

So much for saving for your retirement too , no more lump sum and a higher tax rate for any none state pension you have paid into

[@JamesE707]

The devil sits behind the 'Labour' label. Careful what you all wish for!

[@-Astro--]

Do not vote Labour 👍

[@tubby735]

Another reason to vote REFORM....

[@nicholasgerrish6022]

‘Cash is King’, used to be a commonly used Slang term, meaning that cash is a more valuable means of holding money, than keeping it in the bank, etc. It may become the best means of protecting one’s savings once again, as it is so difficult to track how it is used. Us older lot have been used to living like this, but how would the young manage. Hard cash is not something they pay with these days. There are many shops and restaurants that only take cash…..

[@Dean-qe9cl]

Keir Starmer is loaded lol :).

[@peterstevenson5418]

Net worth is 17 million