Taking the PIP
FOR those Labour MPs excitedly plotting against the PM while virtue-signalling about the cruelty of cutting benefits, we have a reality check.
According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the welfare Bill would actually RISE by a further £8billion even if the changes were fully implemented.
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Spending on health-related benefits would reach a whopping £61billion by the end of the decade.
That’s up by £25billion on the figure in 2019-20, before Covid.
If Labour rebels block the changes, this figure balloons to £66billion.
It now looks inevitable Starmer will be forced to retreat, having abandoned his pledge to stand firm and instead offering “conversations” with the rebels.
Labour MPs might well feel better and pat themselves on the back on Twitter for being “progressive” — once again the buzzword of the Left.
But taxpayers will be left counting the cost for years to come.
The PM, meanwhile, stands seriously weakened less than a year after winning a landslide.
What a self-inflicted disaster.
Red-handed
DO as I say, not as I do.
They should carve that mantra in stone above the entrance to the Department of Energy.
Ed Miliband loves telling ordinary folk to make expensive sacrifices to save the planet.
Yet it’s somehow no surprise that His Greenness flew at least one Net Zero official on a 10,000-mile round-trip to Brazil on a pointless mission to check whether hotels they considered booking for him and his team were suitable.
Apparently we must all ditch the gas boilers that keep us warm.
But pumping out tonnes of CO2 is completely fine if it’s in pursuit of a perfect hotel suite for the minister.
Miliband’s hypocrisy will probably go down badly with the Climate Change Committee quango.
It says his failure to lift expensive green levies from electricity bills means punters aren’t buying enough electric cars or heat pumps.
It seems even his eco warrior mates don’t think he’s up to the job.
No to Nanny
BRITS generally hate being told what to do — especially when it makes no sense.
So why don’t the busybodies presiding over our increasingly nanny state just leave us alone?
Since when was having a pint or a flutter such a danger to society?
Why must we constantly be told to watch where we’re going, hold the handrail, mind our heads and our words — even our thoughts?
No one asked for any of this.
Nanny doesn’t know best. We do.
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