There IS money for tax cuts — the Chancellor must ignore the Left’s rage and put more money in the pockets of strivers
Take axe to tax
BRITAIN needs much lower taxes. Mere tinkering in the Budget will not work. We need radical cuts.
Our 70-year-high burden is crippling households and crushing growth.
So it is dispiriting to hear Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, swayed by the dismal groupthink of the Office for Budget Responsibility and IMF, now hosing down expectations.
The public are right to be confused.
One minute Mr Hunt aims to be the tax-slashing Nigel Lawson of the 2020s.
Now there’s too little money for it.
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We know he wants the OBR’s approval — Liz Truss didn’t bother securing it and look what happened to her. But it is far from an infallible, all-knowing oracle.
It exists only because George Osborne invented it. Its forecasts are wildly fluctuating “works of fiction”, in its own chairman’s words. It is a small unit with a centre-left, high-tax slant.
The IMF is even worse. Nakedly anti-Brexit, endlessly negative about Britain, serially inaccurate and in love with high taxes and public spending.
There IS money for decent tax cuts.
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And there could be far more. Mr Hunt could take the axe to a welfare system so generous that once again it encourages idleness over work, as it did under Gordon Brown’s corrosive leadership.
The Chancellor must ignore the Left’s rage and put more money in the pockets of strivers who DO bother to earn a crust.
Why, meanwhile, is the Bank of England still hammering homeowners?
Too slow to raise interest rates when inflation took off, it is too slow to lower them now it’s been halved.
Between them, Mr Hunt and the Bank are at risk of strangling the growth vital to our future.
Bin this waste
IF Mr Hunt IS looking for savings he won’t need to go far.
In Whitehall they have produced a bewildering multi-stage guide to chucking stuff in the recycling.
There’s even a paper “crumple test” civil servants are urged to conduct.
Here’s our idea to save a small fortune:
Crumple that guide and bin it in a single swift, decisive movement.
Along with the jobs of the numbskulls who considered it a good use of our money.
Insult to hero
WHAT has possessed the Government to short-change Post Office whistle-blowing hero Alan Bates?
Most people, having seen him immortalised in ITV’s drama, want him knighted — for starters.
He’s surely the last bloke to pick a fight with.
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Instead the Government’s lawyers are offering him and others a fraction of the compensation they want for their diabolical betrayal by the Post Office.
Just write them a big cheque . . . and get it in the post.