Bravo Jon Kelly at the BBC

A nice piece about how people on low wages are betrayed by the Labour government’s recent tax changes-

Hoarding loose change. Always having to buy the cheapest groceries. Dreading the arrival of utility bills through the door. Britain’s low earners say their lives are already difficult enough. But changes to the tax system could mean that making ends meet becomes even harder for many.

Under the new system, standard income tax has been cut from 22% to 20% and tax credits raised – but the lowest 10p band has been scrapped entirely…

“As it is I always try to buy the cheapest own-brand groceries but it’s never enough. I’d love a fresh wardrobe but I can’t remember the last time I bought new clothes. I don’t think it should be people on low incomes who have to pay more. It should be those with higher incomes – like MPs.”

5 Responses to “Bravo Jon Kelly at the BBC”

  1. chickyog Says:

    It’s not a nice piece, Rick.

  2. RickB Says:

    Yes, not a nice policy but good on the journo for focussing on the impact on people which is the real point, whatever well paid nulabs say they have just screwed the lowest earners, also an element of social ‘family values’ engineering to it, absolute conservatism.

  3. Rafael Soler Says:

    I am astonished by Jon Kelley’s
    publishment of UK’s pronouncement
    of prison sentence for Simon Sheppard
    and Stephen Whittle. I visited these
    two gentlemen while they were held
    in our Santa Ana Jail. My view of them
    is entirely different from Jon Kelley’s
    Bnai Brith and Company, when compared
    against actual facts, are erroneous,
    libelous. I hold little respect for Brits in
    general, but I shall cherish my acquain-
    tance with the Heretical Two, whom I
    revere as Heroes.

  4. RickB Says:

    You might want be a bit more choosy as to your ‘Heroes’ being as they are holocaust denying anti-semitic cretins.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8010537.stm


Leave a Reply