Tories Break Manifesto Pledge - Tax Rises Coming!

BBC News - Hammond: Taxes will rise to pay for NHS boost. More taxes because 45%+NIC still isn’t enough to cover Government spending. https://t.co/jjH3wnWggi

— Gordon Berry (@wealthagent) June 21, 2018

A political party that breaks its manifesto pledge???

Surely not!

Laura Kuenssberg Nails It

A stride to the left ? https://t.co/dKdKekhnaB

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) May 16, 2017

May's manifesto - who is she trying to be? https://t.co/9jjdJiPFoF

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) May 18, 2017

Now it's a mainstream May-ism, spelling out her ditching of pure free market ideological tory thinking

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) May 18, 2017

Another Day Another Manifesto Launch

Tory train has arrived in w Yorkshire - half the Cabinet in a special cabin for the manifesto launch pic.twitter.com/159WZbTCSS

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) May 18, 2017

Meanwhile, in a universe far far far away....

Labour's Offworld Manifesto

.@TimkCPS breaks it to Labour gently, the real world might be slightly more complicated than they think https://t.co/zKw4tTrzZA pic.twitter.com/ZMuf6KnGAz

— CPS Think Tank (@CPSThinkTank) May 17, 2017

Labour's uncosted manifesto has received a thorough financial kicking from people/organisations with some knowledge/understanding of how the real world works.

Paul Johnson, director of IFS, said:

“They are looking at raising an awful lot from companies and high earners. The chance of getting £50bn are pretty small. It seems to us is that if they were able to raise that amount that would take tax burden in the UK to its highest level in 70 years."

John O'Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said:

"This entire manifesto is based on the clearly absurd belief that businesses can be repeatedly hammered with massive tax increases and crippled with regulation without any wider impact on the economy, jobs and investment.

If even a handful of these disastrous ideas were implemented it would mean misery for the many and employment for the few.”

Ironically the coup de grace was delivered by that tired old union dinosaur, McCluskey of Unite, who doesn't think Labour has a cat's chance in hell of winning and said that holding on to 200 seats - a loss of 29 seats and its worst result since 1935 - would constitute “a successful campaign”.

Fair enough, Corbyn and co want to drag Britain backwards; why not back to the 1930's?

Labour's Faceless Drones

We are all faceless drones under Labour!

Labour's Uncosted Manifesto Launch

Despite it being leaked last week, the Labour manifesto will be officially launched today.

The oft repeated phrase "fully costed" has been used in the build up to the launch by party bigwigs. Except it isn't, McDonnell has admitted that the figures for nationalising water haven't been worked out yet!

Labour Candidates Disown Unicorn Manifesto

Labour candidates are promising Labour voters they will remove Corbyn after the election in a desperate bid to win support on the doorstep, and are disowning the manifesto (even though it has yet to be officially published).

One Labour candidate described the manifesto as “childish”, as per the Telegraph:

“Those of us who are realistic about this know we can't stand on the manifesto that has been produced by the party so we won't mention it on leaflets and on the doorstep.”

One senior Labour candidate said:

"This is nothing more than an expensive wishlist. Some of it may be harmless but the rest of it reads like a 10 year old's letter to Santa Claus."

Another, fighting to hold onto a marginal seat, said:

"You could promise unicorns for everyone, none of this is going to happen.

It's a ludicrous document, it won't serve Labour MPs well on the doorstep and the public have largely stopped listening and taking us seriously anyway.”

How can voters trust people who stand for a party for which they neither support the manifesto nor leader?

Corbyn Pulls Out Of Poster Campaign Launch

Chaos abounds within Labour, following the leak of its 1970's manifesto.

Labour To Drag Us Back To The Seventies

Labour's leaked manifesto appears to have fallen through a window in time from the 1970's, as it proposes taking us back to the "good old days" of a.o.:

- Nationalisation
- Beer and sarnies for union oligarchs at Number 10
- Wage caps

Labour's Rolling Manifesto - ie Clueless

.@DawnButlerBrent tells #newsnight Labour may have "rolling manifesto" pic.twitter.com/KsbOV9KzCI

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) April 20, 2017

SNP Manifesto Launch

The SNP manifesto launch is taking place in some kind of Bond villain lair in the middle of nowhere. pic.twitter.com/7z6mqV9FlP

— Jamie Ross (@JamieRoss7) April 20, 2015

Greens To Ban Everything

Courtesy of LondonlovesBusiness here is a list of many of the things that the Greens (the party of intolerance) wish to ban, aside from the Grand National:

• Privatisation of the NHS
• SATS tests, league tables and academies
• Tuition fees and cancel student debt
• Tax avoidance and evasion
• Rail privatisation
• Workfare and benefit sanctions
• Trident nuclear deterrent
• Biodiversity offsetting (where property developers destroy habitats but create another elsewhere)
• Genetically Modified Organisms
• The production and sale of foie gras
• Cloning of animals for food
• Overuse of antibiotics in farming
• Monkeys (and other primates) as pets
• Importing exotic pets
• Hunting, the badger cull, snares, sport shooting
• Animals in circuses
• Use of a whip in horse racing, and a review of the sport
• Importing fur
• Keeping dolphins, whales, porpoises for commercial purposes, or killing them in the wild
• Non-medical experiments on animals
• Breeding genetically altered animals
• Puppy farming
• Electric shock collars for dogs
• Patenting of genes and living organisms
• Waste food being sent to landfill
• Fossil-fuel-based generation, including closing coal-fired power stations by 2023
• Nuclear power
• Fracking
• Fossil-fuel industry tax breaks/subsidies
• New building on flood plains
• Detention of LGBTQ asylum seekers and culture of disbelief
• Lads mags and porn in supermarkets and newsagents
• Stopping nursing mothers breastfeeding in a public place
• Fit for work scheme where outside person decides if a disabled person can work
• The exploitation of interns and young people in low-wage jobs
• “Phony” patient choice
• Alcohol under 50p a unit
• Opt-in organ donation (move to an opt-out system)
• Mixed-sex accommodation in hospitals
• Children being put in police cells
• Marketisation and outsourcing of education
• Class sizes of more than 20
• Private schools’ charitable status, running schools for profit
• Religious organisations in schools
• Parents paying for school equipment and expensive trips
• Help to Buy
• Stamp Duty
• Big builder “cartels”
• Right to Buy and mass council house sales
• Landlord perks such as tax deductions and mortgage interest relief
• Bedroom tax
• Exploitative zero-hours contracts
• Unequal pay between men and women
• Blacklisting (and set up an investigation into blacklisting in construction)
• Combined retail and investment banking firms
• City of London Corporation
• 20% VAT on cooked food, entertainment and accommodation (reduce to 5%)
• Employees National Insurance upper threshold
• Corporation tax relief on companies which have more than a 10:1 ratio between the highest and lowest paid employees
• Capital gains tax personal allowance
• The seven-year rule on gifts by living donors
• The Universal Credit programme
• Work-for-benefits programmes
• Private sector contracts with government on benefit entitlement assessment
• Childcare tax credits and tax reliefs (in favour of free universal childcare and early education)
• Lobbying Act
• New Homes Bonus
• Individual or company owning 20% or more of a media market
• National major roads programme
• Favourable tax treatment of aviation
• Pavement parking
• Torture and the sale of torture equipment
• Restrictions on foreign students
• Rich people “buying” their way into the UK
• The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
• Police & Crime Commissioners

Labour's Bland Manifesto

Here it is, the manifesto hard copy #labour #ge2015 pic.twitter.com/XqHSspoTic
— William James (@WJames_Reuters) April 13, 2015

Sans the de rigueur socially inclusive photos of people from a variety of backgrounds, sexes and ages etc.

How very bland!

Here's the full 2015 Labour manifesto [pdf]: http://t.co/SMK4XfMyPP

— Ed Conway (@EdConwaySky) April 13, 2015