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For those of you wondering why our next prime minister (stop laughing at the back) Liz Truss is so desperate to reverse her predecessor’s increase in National Insurance, then may I refer you to a comment made today by Rishi Sunak supporter Oliver Dowden:
“The national insurance tax cut will benefit someone, working full-time on the national living wage, by less than £60, but it will benefit the new Prime minister by £1,800.. “
So, that’s it then. The Pound Shop Margaret Thatcher tribute act AKA Betty Truss wants to help the working poor by giving them just over £1 a week while trousering nearly £35 a week herself. Yes, I can see the lower orders happily going along with that, at least before they starve to death. “No handouts from the government,” says Betty, ruling out providing assistance for people struggling to heat and eat. “Except to me, obvs.”
I am sure at least some pensioners, the vast majority of whom vote Tory, will be thrilled by the news that the NI they don’t pay will now be reduced. That’s a net gain to the pocket of – let’s see: oh yes, I’ve got it – jack shit but why should they complain? The average pensioner is now a staggering 8p a week better off than they were in 2009. What will they spend all that extra money on?
It’s completely bonkers listening to and watching Truss and her rival for Number 10, the slick, smooth and utterly vacuous Brand Rishi Sunak. With millions of people beginning to fret about their gas and electric bills, Sunak is banging on about ‘wokeness’, ‘political correctness’, getting rid of our human rights and sending migrants to Rwanda, preferably only after they’ve been murdered. I may have missed the exact details, but not by much.
With the energy cap rising to anything between £3600 and £3800 by October, I am not entirely sure Betty’s NI cuts will have much impact, apart from people like her. When you are loaded, and Betty Truss is extremely loaded, that extra £1800 a year she will award herself when she cuts NI will hopefully mean there will be no need for visits to her local food bank. Millions of desperate British people may be slightly less lucky.
But let’s not worry about Betty’s refusal to make ‘hand outs’ to starving people. This lady is for turning, as we saw when one day she announced pay cuts for public sector workers (you know, doctors, nurses, police officers, soldiers) in some parts of the country only to backtrack the following day, attacking the media for ‘wilfully misrepresenting’ the words she actually spoke by repeating them.
This is not a serious politician, at a time when the country will desperately need a serious politician to steer us through the coming storms. I’ve said before that we are sleep-walking to economic disaster in Britain but due to a number of reasons, one being it’s warm and sunny, we probably won’t wake up until the rain comes. And boy, we are in for one massive storm.
