Fun Fair tax breaks – the Labour circus is still in town.
Reeves is destroying peoples lives – Labour to save the economy via Log Flumes.
TOM ED
Up there with supermarkets saving the planet from supposed manmade warming by discontinuing brown-shelled eggs, meanwhile selling Easter eggs each with a carbon footprint of a dumpster fire, Rachel ‘clueless’ Reeves has introduced tax breaks in her ‘Great British Summer Saving’. She is proposing that discounting leisure activities will save the economy she has destroyed. It might break from her delusion that you can tax a country into growth, but discounted visits to aqua parks to alleviate tax pressure is the sort of idiocy you’d expect from someone once described by a colleague in her complaints department as “f***ing useless.” Maybe she hopes discounted bread and circuses will distract from taxation at its highest since the second world war and skyrocketing unemployment.
Once again it shows that the adults back in the room that Labour crowed about during their election are ones who’ve never encountered the real world before. Putting people with no work experience in charge of the economy is like leaving dogs to steer an already moving train; it’ll work only until expertise is required.
During the election the Confederation of British Industry inexplicably were supportive of labour, but while Starmer racked up levels of expenses last seen during a Louis Vuitton’s supermarket sweep and Angela Rayner was inexplicably buying a £800,000 penthouse in Hove and dodging stamp duty while smoking in a dinghy, the CBI have changed their tune on Labour.
Rain Newton-Smith, CBI director-general, warned of a “summer of stagnation”, which might have influenced Reeve’s catchier Great British Summer Savings. In a speech to business leaders Ms Newton-Smith said “Last year, the government tax take from business was the highest on record. National Insurance alone rose nearly 28pc on the year before – almost £27bn extra, taken from business.” In ignorance of how business works Lefties will of course celebrate this. Reeves knows as much about business as you might expect from someone who lied on their CV and worked in a complaints department. She’s now wilfully blind to the impact of red tape, AI, high taxes and increased NI is having upon employment. Labour understands the economy like a window cleaner comprehends the office kitchen conversations on the other side of the glass.
The economy is something the Left never understands. They see it as something inherited (never built) from (traditionally) the Conservatives and aim to modify it to serve their needs of addressing inequality. Yet the private sector can no longer pay for the wastage and increasing encroachment of the public sector. They milk the golden goose without feeding it or even occasionally plumping its nest.
Reeves is clueless on how Labour plan to fund its welfare spending once it has taken all the savings and broken the means of profit creation, yet her economic plan is seemingly to move everyone in work onto welfare. And this is the greatest irony for a party called Labour. Since Labour took office, 150,000 more young people are out of work, with Britain close to overtaking Greece – once Europe’s cautionary tale – on youth unemployment. With their love of welfare Labour should be renamed as the Leisure party. With her Summer Savings Reeves is now apparently taking taxation advice from teenage boys. Cutting VAT to 5% on summer attractions such as theme parks, zoos and museums might lead to reducing cinema tickets by £1.50. It’s not exactly the Marshall Plan. She’ll be reducing VAT on garlic bread next.
If this isn’t looking for small change down the national sofa it’s hard to know what is. She has listened to the public’s non-existent dismay at being unable to afford Oblivion or Spinball Whizzer at Alton Towers and responded. Those signed off work with anxiety already get discounts for being thrown around rides at 90mph, although if you can face dizzying inversions, high G-forces, and vertical drops then you can probably come off benefits, travel to the office and even attend weekly meetings. Disneyland Paris has disability queues longer than the normal ones, mostly consisting of British visitors unable to queue for long enough to eat a Callipo without medication.
Rather than offering discounts on log flumes, Reeves should be paying more attention to the rollercoaster of the economy. Even Wes Streeting took a break from looking as though recently informed he’s made of a Papier-mâché balloon to criticise Reeves’ job tax that has hit companies recruitment programmes.
Labour were voted in with only 33% of a 60% turn out, and through exhaustion of the alternative rather than anyone really thinking socialism is a good idea. Yet it hasn’t stopped them from implementing it. In the 2025/26 financial year, the UK government’s total welfare bill exceeded income tax receipts for the first time in recent history, with welfare costing £333 billion compared to the £331 billion raised in income tax. This is leaving taps running without replenishing the water tank. They redistribute wreath from the makers to the takers, until there’s nothing left.
Forcing other people to pay for your beliefs is typical of the left. Bleeding heart lefties always bleed the country dry, while ensuring their Islington dinner parties remain well-stocked in posh water biscuits, class snobbery and Palestinian flags. At least shabby Corbyn lives like he intended us all to, in a house with the interior of an allotment shed and plastic bags for slippers.
Labour see the world through a prism of Ken Loach films; that society without their help will be monstrous. The Left splits the world into victims or aggressors, The more victims they can identify (the cynical might say create) then the greater their chance of power. The irony of leftism is that success in meaningfully improving lives would mean their political obsoletion – they’d be no one left to help. The left are like pharmaceutical companies invested in the continued existence of disease for profit. Leftism profits from victimhood. No victims = no power. The NHS was intended as from cradle to the grave, and the new welfarism is extending this suffocating maxim to every aspect of our living and paid for by those still working. How do Labour plan to fund its welfare spending once it has broken the means of profit creation?
Last month riders on the Hyper were left suspended 200ft in the air for 30 minutes on a hot day. It may have distracted them from the purposeful incompetence of our government’s economic policy, but it’s unlikely. Asking Reeves to fix an economy already destroyed by her crippling taxes is asking an arsonist to extinguish a fire, but saving it with tax breaks on candy floss is emptying the Atlantic with a saucepan. She might get more revenue sweeping up coins beneath the rides fallen from pockets. All those who voted for increased unemployment should be ashamed.
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