Reeves will only be remembered for one thing.
Reeves’ dreams of being remembered favourably are long gone (Image: Getty Images)
Rachel from Accounts wanted so much to be remembered as the first female Chancellor. Instead she’ll be remembered as the worst Chancellor ever – a modern-day Pinocchio in a cautionary tale about lying to the public. The lies started with the Labour manifesto, which pledged ‘we will not increase taxes on working people’. When Rishi Sunak challenged this – saying if Labour is elected it will increase taxes on wages, cars, houses, pensions and savings – Reeves launched into a blistering personal attack branding Rishi a liar.
Yet just a few months later, Reeves set the highest tax raising budget on record. Her next whopper was when she said that her first budget of tax hikes was a once in a lifetime budget, and that she wouldn’t come back with another budget like that. Then last week, in her very next budget, Rachel Thieves came back for billions more tax from hard working people.
That budget has fundamentally broken the link between hard work and success, and rewarding those people who do the right thing. She took billions from working people and handed on average an extra £5,300 to 560,000 people on benefits.
Worse still, she taxed people on the premise that the country’s finances were so bad she had to raise taxes to fill in a black hole. Embarrassingly for Reeves, the OBR took the extraordinary step to openly contradict her, and to point out that she knew that to be untrue when she said it.
The black hole was a myth she used to soften up the public to justify tax rises so she was able to pacify her left wing backbenchers to keep herself and Starmer in a job, using taxpayers’ money to bribe them. But Reeves’ loose relationship with the truth has become a recurring theme.
Remember ‘her’ book, The Women Who Made Modern Economics? Well, that contained copied and pasted passages of other people’s work. In fact, the Financial Times identified over 20 instances of text lifted from other sources.
Reeves later called those errors “inadvertent mistakes”. She used the phrase “inadvertent mistake” again, most recently, when she failed to get a licence to rent out her home. A criminal act for you and me, but not for Teflon Reeves.
If she had any decency at all, Reeves would quit now. Not just for misleading us, but because she is woefully out of her depth.
Although she might not get the chance to and could be given the push instead as Blackholegate continues to gather momentum with her fellow Cabinet Ministers now saying they were misled and MPs demanding an ethics inquiry.
She said her budget was done to ease the cost of living. How do you help with the cost of living by putting up people’s taxes? She said she has “asked working people to make a contribution” to higher public spending – as if paying taxes was something voluntary that we can choose to opt in or out of.
Rachel Reeves hates being called ‘Rachel from Accounts’. I think ‘Pinocchio Reeves’ suits her much better.
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Never have we had such a joyless government. Not only is it sucking the life out of the economy, it’s sucking the fun out of living too. Want a drink, this government is taxing it more, want to vape its taxing it too. Heaven help us if you fancy a flutter on the horses or the dog racing, and you can forget going away for the weekend in the UK once Labour’s brought in its new tourist tax.
The sad thing is even if you can afford to go out, Labour’s doing its level best to kill off bars, restaurants and pubs (38,000 pubs now under threat after a massive hike in their costs in the budget). What a bunch of miserable killjoys this government is.
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The sooner David Lammy is removed the better (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
David Lammy is never far from a bout of stupidity. He is the political gift that keeps giving, from his catastrophic Chagos deal, to losing prisoners from their cells, and who could forget his performance on Mastermind?
Well, it’s just been revealed that when he was Foreign Secretary he removed a portrait of the late Queen from the Foreign Office in favour of pan-African flags of all things. Why on earth would he remove the picture of Queen Elizabeth II, loved around the world, for some flags, particularly non-British ones at that? The sooner Lammy is removed the better.
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My home city of Liverpool was the venue for Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana‘s Your Party’ Conference. With tensions running high, now Jeremy and Zara are no longer ‘ bezzies’ it was chaos from the get-go with members being expelled and Ms Sultana boycotting her own conference.
Thankfully both Zara and Jeremy managed to win one vote each at their conference. Jeremy won the vote to keep the name Your Party over the other options – Our Party, Popular Alliance and For The Many – whilst Zara won the vote to have the party run as a collective, rather than have a leader, which places a committee of members in charge. What could possibly go wrong?
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France reintroduced Military Service this week, more than a quarter of a century after conscription was phased out. It made me wonder if it will ever be reintroduced in the UK.
Lots of countries across the Continent have made military service mandatory, from Latvia and Lithuania to Finland and Greece, and have found it delivers benefits for physical and mental health. With one million young people under this Labour government now not in work, training or education, and with mental health having become a plague amongst the young, will Starmer seek to follow his friend Macron and introduce it here?
If he did, it would probably be the most popular thing he has done.
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Troubled star Britney Spears is supposedly contemplating a move to the UK. It Seems ‘Oops I’ve done it again’ Britney is back to posting strange messages online with her parents desperate to intervene to stop her. Starmer will be pleased with this news – it’s about the only multi millionaire heading to our shores after Reeves’ budget. Most other ones are heading in the opposite direction!
