Monday, 19 April 2010

"We're All In It Together"

…is the campaign slogan of David Cameron (Eton, Oxford, Bullingdon, £30m fortune, expenses cheat) and Gideon George Osborne (St. Paul's, Oxford, Bullingdon, due to become the 18th Baronet of Ballentaylor, expenses cheat, charged the taxpayer for 2 copies of his own speeches on DVD, personal fortune of £5m - inherited, with potentially £500m to come.

How 'all in it together' are we? The Independent summarises the Tories' major tax commitments thus:
"Here are the facts. David Cameron will give a £1.2bn inheritance tax cut to the richest 2 per cent in Britain with most going to the 3,000 wealthiest estates (including his wife's). 
Then he promises to end the 50p top rate of tax, giving another £2.4bn to the richest 1 per cent. 
Then he has pledged to cut taxes on the pensions of the richest, handing another £3.2bn to the same 1 per cent. 
Then his marriage tax relief policies will give 13 times more to the rich than the poor. To pay for this, he will slash programmes for the middle and the skint"

1 comment:

Benjamin said...

Disgraceful isn't it, surely voters will wise up to his antics. I'm voting for that wonderful plume of gritty volcanic ash, grounding the airplanes of arrogance and causing havoc to the flight schedules of nonchalance.