Last Brown Budget
The media are still covering aspects and details of the chancellor's 11th and possibly final budget.
No one seems too impressed with the headline-grabbing 2p cut in the basic rate of income tax. WHY?
The budget is bad for farmers, bad for small & manufacturing businesses, bad for pensioners and bad for the poorest citizens. Landfill tax hike will surely increase council tax. Not surprising England is disappointed then!
Some out there may feel there is some good in the budget, please add a comment and point it out.
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The Last Brown Budget; England deserves better
This has been a devastating week for the New Labour Government and the Chancellor Gordon Brown. On Monday, the former head of the Civil Service, Lord Turnbull, in an interview with a national newspaper laid bare the bullying
behaviour and the power mad character of the Chancellor. Lord Turnbull described how Gordon Brown had forced the Treasury to take power from the other great departments of state and that the Treasury refused to allow sensible discussion of priorities for spending by the departments of English Health, English Education and the English Home Office.
This savage attack by Lord Turnbull on the personal character of Gordon Brown was soon endorsed by other senior civil servants and there are now very serious questions whether the Chancellor has the maturity and emotional intelligence, and whether he shows sufficient transparency and honesty in his day-to-day behaviours, to take on the daunting duties of being the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
We turn our attention to Thursday’s budget speech by the Chancellor. It gives the English Democrats no pleasure when we conclude that both the policy decisions on tax announced by the Chancellor and his misleading presentation of them in his Budget speech, show how totally unfitted he is to be our Prime Minster and that New Labour is now betraying the interests of the ordinary people of England.
If the Chancellor had been true to the ideals of Clement Atlee and Nye Bevan of the real Labour Party he would have looked after the ordinary people.
Instead he hit the less well off hard in their pockets by abolishing the 10% income tax band and gave an undeserved tax cut (from 6 April 2008) via the reduction in the basic rate from 22% to 20% in a complex package of tax changes
which benefited the wealthy the most.
For the tenth year in a row, the Chancellor has again refused to levy any income tax on the millionaires who, while they live in our country and happily take all it has to offer, claim to have a tax domicile abroad. People like
Lakshimi Mittal, who recently gave £2 million to New Labour, has once again escaped a massive UK income tax bill as a result of the Chancellor’s continued failure to impose tax on foreign domiciled multi–millionaires!
To complete the dismal picture of the Chancellor’s real budget measures, business in England and Wales was badly hit by the Chancellor’s decision to raise corporation tax on small businesses and the abolition of capital allowances for agricultural buildings and industrial building such as factories.
Instead the Chancellor took the huge amounts of extra tax payable by small business and farming and manufacturing and used it to subsidise a cut in the tax rate of 2% for the very profitable banks and hedge funds in the City of London.
The English Democrats look upon the political elites that run our country and despair at their lack of care for the ordinary and hardworking people of England. The three main parties of the political elite, of New Labour, Tories and Liberal Democrats, are indistinguishable in their dislike of the home nations of England, in their high taxing and careless use of taxpayers’ money, and in their high-handed and uncaring attitudes and policies. The English
Democrats call on the people of England to turn to the citizen politicians and common sense policies of the English Democrats.
Andrew Constantine, Treasurer, English Democrats
This has been a devastating week for the New Labour Government and the Chancellor Gordon Brown. On Monday, the former head of the Civil Service, Lord Turnbull, in an interview with a national newspaper laid bare the bullying
behaviour and the power mad character of the Chancellor. Lord Turnbull described how Gordon Brown had forced the Treasury to take power from the other great departments of state and that the Treasury refused to allow sensible discussion of priorities for spending by the departments of English Health, English Education and the English Home Office.
This savage attack by Lord Turnbull on the personal character of Gordon Brown was soon endorsed by other senior civil servants and there are now very serious questions whether the Chancellor has the maturity and emotional intelligence, and whether he shows sufficient transparency and honesty in his day-to-day behaviours, to take on the daunting duties of being the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
We turn our attention to Thursday’s budget speech by the Chancellor. It gives the English Democrats no pleasure when we conclude that both the policy decisions on tax announced by the Chancellor and his misleading presentation of them in his Budget speech, show how totally unfitted he is to be our Prime Minster and that New Labour is now betraying the interests of the ordinary people of England.
If the Chancellor had been true to the ideals of Clement Atlee and Nye Bevan of the real Labour Party he would have looked after the ordinary people.
Instead he hit the less well off hard in their pockets by abolishing the 10% income tax band and gave an undeserved tax cut (from 6 April 2008) via the reduction in the basic rate from 22% to 20% in a complex package of tax changes
which benefited the wealthy the most.
For the tenth year in a row, the Chancellor has again refused to levy any income tax on the millionaires who, while they live in our country and happily take all it has to offer, claim to have a tax domicile abroad. People like
Lakshimi Mittal, who recently gave £2 million to New Labour, has once again escaped a massive UK income tax bill as a result of the Chancellor’s continued failure to impose tax on foreign domiciled multi–millionaires!
To complete the dismal picture of the Chancellor’s real budget measures, business in England and Wales was badly hit by the Chancellor’s decision to raise corporation tax on small businesses and the abolition of capital allowances for agricultural buildings and industrial building such as factories.
Instead the Chancellor took the huge amounts of extra tax payable by small business and farming and manufacturing and used it to subsidise a cut in the tax rate of 2% for the very profitable banks and hedge funds in the City of London.
The English Democrats look upon the political elites that run our country and despair at their lack of care for the ordinary and hardworking people of England. The three main parties of the political elite, of New Labour, Tories and Liberal Democrats, are indistinguishable in their dislike of the home nations of England, in their high taxing and careless use of taxpayers’ money, and in their high-handed and uncaring attitudes and policies. The English
Democrats call on the people of England to turn to the citizen politicians and common sense policies of the English Democrats.
Andrew Constantine, Treasurer, English Democrats
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